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After realising that many of my photos have been way off the mark in terms of AF accuracy, with 2 seperate lenses on my D500 - I'm wondering if I potentially could have a AF issue in-body.
I took over 400 pictures today with my 200-500 in excellent conditions on a mono-pod and after tweaking the fine tune settings throughout all 40 possible settings, I was unable to achieve much difference in overall sharpness. In fact, I found that using Manual Focus, I was able to get better results that using Auto Focus. The reason I question my AF is I also recently took pictures at a friends wedding, and found that consistently through a number of the same photos, ie bursts, my focus would be out, even although my camera is set to only shutter release when in focus.
Admittedly today - my subjects were rather far away, however I would have expected to see sharp results at 100%? I know with the D850 (a much more expensive camera I know) I've heard you can achieve pretty sharp results even at 200%, and even 300% with a prime - I'm just wondering if I'm expecting too much from my combo? I just find that if birds are this far away, I just pretty much give up, as I'm not going to get the results I'm looking for.
Here's probably the very best I got with AF, but I would say it's too soft to keep? What are your opinions? How many in focus photos should I be getting? 5 out of 10, 9 out of 10? I'm lucky to get 1 in 50 at the moment.
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HSC_5904_full by Gilbo B, on Flickr
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HSC_5904_full 1 by Gilbo B, on Flickr
I took over 400 pictures today with my 200-500 in excellent conditions on a mono-pod and after tweaking the fine tune settings throughout all 40 possible settings, I was unable to achieve much difference in overall sharpness. In fact, I found that using Manual Focus, I was able to get better results that using Auto Focus. The reason I question my AF is I also recently took pictures at a friends wedding, and found that consistently through a number of the same photos, ie bursts, my focus would be out, even although my camera is set to only shutter release when in focus.
Admittedly today - my subjects were rather far away, however I would have expected to see sharp results at 100%? I know with the D850 (a much more expensive camera I know) I've heard you can achieve pretty sharp results even at 200%, and even 300% with a prime - I'm just wondering if I'm expecting too much from my combo? I just find that if birds are this far away, I just pretty much give up, as I'm not going to get the results I'm looking for.
Here's probably the very best I got with AF, but I would say it's too soft to keep? What are your opinions? How many in focus photos should I be getting? 5 out of 10, 9 out of 10? I'm lucky to get 1 in 50 at the moment.
Full image
HSC_5904_full by Gilbo B, on Flickr
Cropped image
HSC_5904_full 1 by Gilbo B, on Flickr
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