On Jun 6, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Going over the photos, I've got a distressing number where the camera is >> focused on something closer to me than his eyes, despite my attempt to set >> the focus point on his eyes. Usually on some high contrast feature of his >> shirt. The close ups seem to be focused just right, so it's more of a focus >> point selection issue, than a front focus issue. >> I'm still waiting for my focus screen adjustment shims from Pentax, it's >> been about a month. I ordered a variety, and got a note that a couple were >> on back order, and I can't seem to drop those from my order and get it >> shipped already. > > . . . > Correct me if I'm wrong (it's happened before) but your focus screen > shim has nothing to do with AF being off. The shims would be important > for what you SEE and would thus negatively affect your manual focus > abilities/accuracy, but the AF should still work even if you took the > focusing screen completely out of the camera. (Full disclosure: That > last sentence was Pure Conjecture.)
So far as I know, you are correct. It seems that the problem is not that my autofocus doesn't work. As far as I can tell, it focuses perfectly: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7158253421/in/set-72157629999980375 The problem seems to be that the autofocus focuses perfectly on the wrong thing. The autofocus zones are large enough that it will find something contrasty, like the ribs in a tank top, and will make them perfectly sharp, rather than the eyes which are at the autofocus selection point. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
