If I got you wrong, my apology to you.
Don't worry. It's just a typo, I know the word very well. I wrote it correctly the first time but somehow I typed something like that when I tried to re-phrase the sentence. I noticed a lot of similar incidences recently and I talked about going to see a neurologist soon in another thread. May be I should hurry up.
you must have me mixed up with someone else, my camera focuses fine & what gave you the idea that I was miserable??
Define "a lot of 10Ds". You don't know. You only know what you're reading here and it's a given that people are going to be heard if they have a problem whereas people who aren't, usually just use their cameras instead. Also, it doesn't help people to post POSITIVE comments about their 10Ds if they're going to be treated like Fastlane has.
Where did you get THIS information?
Uh, what else can we do? Are we going to devise a fix by arguing about the camera? If anything I buy is defective, I return for another or send it back to the manufacturer. I don't stand on a street corner yowling about it.
You contend that people must try to take pictures in a darkened room to prove their camera isn't defective? Talk about stupid responses. Sheesh!
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any camera can focus in a broad daylight/high contrast situation.
Exactly. You pull over, fix the problem and move on.
Actually it's obvious that some 10D's have AF issues. Define "a lot" - I don't think anyone has any empirical data to quantify the % of units shipped that are not within acceptable AF spec.
Well...there isn't a "recall," and that's a fact. Also, I would propose that if your camera isn't auto-focusing accurately, that it really isn't "defective" either - it's just miscalibrated - and can be correctly calibrated very quickly by a tech without replacement of parts.
1 - you could do that - and you may end up waiting for a replacement or a new camera
Interesting - you teach grammar!
John,
that should be interesting, so yours didn't AF properly in any conditions??
true, but my old D30 focused just fine in broad daylight(& could have taken the photos in this thread I think), but was almost useless in low-light.
I did buy one
True, but it should still Af correctly
Nope - the actual focal plane was consistently in front of (closer to the camera) than where the AF would lock. Every time. Every lens. Every lighting situation
Again, I'm sure you're correct - but the ability for the AF mechanism to operate properly in low-Ev conditions is a different problem than most are having. Low-light Ev performance is a design limitation. Consistently front or back focusing in all conditions is simply a calibration issue. That's all I am trying to say.
As will I as November draws near (closer to HS hockey season) I'm hoping an upgrade for the 1D will hit the streets by then - if not, a 1D it will be!
"Correctly" to me means accurately within design parameters. My 10D never AF'd correctly. Low-end DSLR's (as you are well aware) such as D30/D60/10D have fairly high Ev thresholds - i.e. if there isn't much light, the camera isn't really designed to focus. It's definitely a weakness to some - and a non-issue to others. It all depends upon the conditions in which you use it.
I'm not seeing where this can be reasonably taken from his post.
I really don't waste my time with anything more than glancing at those threads so I won't claim otherwise. I will say that at least some folks who do end up with a problem camera have a tendency to announce to the world that all cameras of that model are faulty. Which is simply ludicrous as we all know -- but tends to give a skewed picture of reality to folks just looking in as they're considering a DSLR. And for the folks reading this who lack basic reading comprehension skills (not you mark) let me spell it out: it is just as ludicrous to claim all units are clean as it is to claim all units are faulty.
indeed... there has been a progression -- I think the more reasonable and helpful folks have given up in face of the "my 10D sucks so all of them must suck" zealots who blast anyone who might suggest that some instances may be user error and/or offer any examples of where there are 10D's which work fine. I mean why waste your time trying to help someone determine if the problem is in their camera, lens, or behind the camera when all that's going to happen is you'll get blasted?
While I agree with the thrust of this statement, the ability to share straight-from-the-camera files does often allow folks to make better guesses at what might have happened. For example, if someone claims that their images are always blurry indoors and the EXIF data from example images shows a 1/10sec shutter speed, it's fairly clear what the issue is.
Been there, done that, couldn't pay me enough to go back!
