Nikon D810 & Auto focus fine tune

sandi_ece

Hi,

I just completed calibrating all my lenses for focus on my new camera. And I must say that I am pleasantly surprised with the Nikon D810.
I previously had owned a Nikon D7000 and rented D610,D800 quite a few number times. And almost all the lenses needed variable amount of AF fine tuning with both D7000 and D610. But this seems to be not the case with D810!
Most of my lenses hardly needed fine tuning with the D810 body! Logic says that should not be the case, because my lenses have not changed.
I am sure many of you have gone through with your Auto focus fine tuning process with your new D810. I would like to know your thoughts.

AF Lenses I currently own: Nikon 24-70 f2.8, Nikon 85mm 1.4G, Nikon 105mm f2.8, Nikon 300mm F4, Sigma 35mm 1.4 ART (Not yet tuned this one, but this one is having weird metering issues with D810 in the Aperture priority mode).

Thanks

deejaysoul

Doing the calibration makes a huge difference, as an owner of the D800 since it came out and recently picked up a D810 before return when I heard of the recall issue. I say for the first year of owning the D800, I had 40% back or front focusing issues, at first I thought it was my Sigma 24-70 which I had no issues on on my D7000. And when I had the budget I got the Nikon 24-70, and my focusing improved, but what I realized I still had focusing issues. I did my best with doing it manually using downloaded focus scales and I managed to improve the focus. Doing that test showed me much my camera was out of the tune. Yes it does make sense since your lens havent changed, but that doesnt mean the things havent changed in the camera. From I understand, the camera sent out with a +/- tolerances which is acceptable by Nikon. Earlier this year I download the Focal software, which for me help dial in my focus more. From my experience I would recommend it, you will see a difference, though you may think your lenses & camera perfect though they're are off sometimes.

deejaysoul

I should add on the average my lens were -15. And with the Zooms you need to fine tune to long end.