Micro Tuning

Thought this was worthy of starting a new thread.

Thanks Zak for introducing the subject of fine tuning our lenses, do you use the fixture mentioned in this article: Lens Align Pro Review. Focus on Better Focus: How to Micro Adjust your camera.

Another interesting read, I'm not sure if this subject should be here, or in the general lenses section.

Nikon D300 AF Fine Tune: Making Lenses Suck Less

There are probably others but here is an example of a lens chart. Old in that it was used with a D70 but still may apply.

http://www.focustestchart.com/focus21.pdf

I'm hoping Zak will get us straightened out.

BTW the D300 can do up to 12 lenses. Certainly a lot more than I have.

nice find. didnt notice this on my D300s.
it only shows im too lazy to read the manual. LOLs

I really want to learn more about this, if you ever notice your lenses are just a little off and are sharper in manual then may be a worthy thing to do. I am hoping Zak can give us some guidance when he gets some time.

This seems to be a pretty detailed and straight forward approach:

AF Micro adjustment Tutorial

Yibel said:

This seems to be a pretty detailed and straight forward approach:

AF Micro adjustment Tutorial

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Thanks for the heads-up Bill

Yibel said:

I really want to learn more about this, if you ever notice your lenses are just a little off and are sharper in manual then may be a worthy thing to do. I am hoping Zak can give us some guidance when he gets some time.

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I went to this website and used their chart which you need to download and then use it to adjust your lens while being viewed on your monitor. Works great. AF microadjustment for the 1Ds mark III, 1D Mk3, 5D Mk2, 7D but you can use almost anything. I have used a calender at a 45 deg angle from the camera to do the same thing. Your camera will remeber upto 12 lenses.

Zak

ZakSaenzPhotography said:

I went to this website and used their chart which you need to download and then use it to adjust your lens while being viewed on your monitor. Works great. AF microadjustment for the 1Ds mark III, 1D Mk3, 5D Mk2, 7D but you can use almost anything. I have used a calender at a 45 deg angle from the camera to do the same thing. Your camera will remeber upto 12 lenses.

Zak

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Thanks Zak, I am going to do it for all my lenses, I am noticeing a slight difference between auto and manual focus, in auto it is just a tad off, don't know if it is front or back.

Although this was done with a Canon, the principles remain for a Nikon:

Datacolor SpyderLensCal - full review

Here is a link to the product used:

http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-cb-spyderlenscal.php