D800 is within factory standard! Needs +20 to stop it front focusing.

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Robin Casady
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Re: Same here.
In reply to primeshooter, 4 months ago

primeshooter wrote:

Well, if you read the manual you will see that setting high values of tuning can affect infinity focus.

Good point. Try it with all of your lenses. If one or more cannot be focused to infinity you would have a reason to claim it is defective. Then you could send it back with the lenses and ask them to calibrate it so it will focus both at close distances an at infinity. If they can't, then you could demand a new body.

Also, being at the end of the range, I cannot see if a little more adjustment in the same direction would give sharper results. This is an expensive camera...it might have a great sensor but if it cannot focus reliably like the last generation, it's not worth much. This is why it's so important to me. I may try using the default setting, which if there is no specific lens setting, apparently works much more. Ie if a lens needs +20, on the default scale it would need about +8 only, then I could tune further if you get what I mean.

That sounds like a good idea, and maybe why they see it as in spec. Since they didn't have your lenses to test with they may have just been calibrating the default setting. Once you have determined a good default setting you can test to see how much variation there is in your lenses.

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