Needed D700' AF fine tuning first time, a great feature...
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| Forum | Nikon D3 - D1 / D700 |
| Subject | Needed D700' AF fine tuning first time, a great feature... [SIMILAR] |
| Posted by | photoforfun [PROFILE] |
| Date/Time | 12:44:59, 08 November 2009 (GMT) |
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Recently I bought a second hand Fuji S5pro for a good price and the seller offered me an old version tamron 28-75 F2.8 @ the same time for a price which made it difficult to resist...
The 28-75 F2.8 backfocused so badly on this S5pro body though that it became totally unuseable. With Nikon lenses this S5pro AF was dead on...
I tried this lens on my D700 and although less dramatic, it was also backfocusing badly.
After AF fine tuning which I did in this way,...
http://www.fotografie.fr/fotoforum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=482&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
...*this lens turns out to be really amazingly sharp, also wide open...*
AF fine tuning apparently makes former unuseable lenses turn out to be great...
What is also very attractive to the older tamron 28-75 is the AF speed on a D700 body compared to the newer version with built-in AF motor. The newer version is significantly slower on D3/D700...
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Kindest regards,
Stany
http://www.fotografie.fr/
http://www.fotografie.fr/fotoforum/index.php
I prefer one really good picture in a day over 10 bad ones in a second...
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