Fine tuning a lens for the D7100

or any other camera for that matter ...

Am I fine-tuning the lens to match the camera or am I fine-tuning the camera to match a lens?

The reason I ask is if I decide to sell a "tuned" lens should I reset it to "0" or does it make no difference on the next body that it will be used on?

AF Fine Tuning data is stored in the camera body, not the lens.

Unless you're using the Sigma dock which tunes the lens by updating lens firmware.

Horoscope Fish said:

AF Fine Tuning data is stored in the camera body, not the lens.

Unless you're using the Sigma dock which tunes the lens by updating lens firmware.

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Thanks Paul and concurrence by others.

If I had some lens is there a place to take every thing to get them calibrated?

There is software available that will get things right or you can do it yourself. This is providing that your camera body has the fine tune feature. Taking it somewhere would probably be at the most cost, in my guessing. It may take 20 minutes per lens with the software.

D3000 and D5000 series do not have fine tune.

A link to software: Reikan FoCal Automatic Lens Calibration Software - Fully Automatic Lens Calibration and Camera ToolsReikan FoCal Automatic Lens Calibration Software

I have FoCal but the Dot Tune method hasn't failed me yet either!

Lawrence said:

or any other camera for that matter ...

Am I fine-tuning the lens to match the camera or am I fine-tuning the camera to match a lens?

The reason I ask is if I decide to sell a "tuned" lens should I reset it to "0" or does it make no difference on the next body that it will be used on?

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Which lens are you selling? I'm in the market for a lens.

Blacktop said:

Which lens are you selling? I'm in the market for a lens.

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Well now that is a good question.

I am trying to sell my D5100 body as well as my 18-105mm and potentially my 70-300mm to fund a decent wide angle (Sigma 10-20mm?) and possibly a more versatile walk around lens - I had a look at the Tamron 16-300 today and it aint half bad.

None of those lenses would suit you even if shipping wasn't a killer.

However the bad news is nobody wants to give me a reasonable price for my D5100.

Life goes on rewardless.