Fine Tuning Lenses???

I recently purchased a Refurbished D7100, updating from the D5300. I came across this reply to a thread pertaining to a gentleman that had just received his D7100.

"One of the first things you need to do is to study up on "Fine Tuning" of all your lenses".

If you look at this post you will see a couple of methods referenced.

Also you may find more info by searching "Fine Tuning Lenses" I know there are some threads in the forum with more methods. Hope this helps. I need to play with mine one of these days. Ha!

I had played with mine a bit, ended up turning off the fine tuning for now until I can play some more with it.

CWGrizz, thanks for the info. Ill check in to it further.

I recommend that you look on youtube for Nikon specific tuning techniques. There are several methods, and tools you can purchase to aid in fine tuning your autofocus. I have a D7100 that I purchased as a refurb, and its focus is a real headache, with autofocus consistency being an issue.

On of the easiest methods is to take a photo of a flat, non-glossy page with fine print on it, from a tripod, and cycle through the fine tune settings. Shoot in RAW format and then pick the sharpest shot of the lot; that should be the setting for that lens. Use a large, if not the largest aperture, of the lens for this. This has to be accomplished for each lens you will use on the camera, but your camera will remember the setting you make for each lens.

WM

See dot tune on YouTube. It worked for me.

I tried them all and finally decided on a piece of software to Fine tune my lenses on all my cameras.

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