I'm Steve Shipman and I've been a people photographer for 20 years or so. For most of those years I have used Hasselblads and roll film and have a lovely time photographing all sorts of people for all sorts of consumer magazines and corporate clients. I work in London and the South-east generally, and I'm lucky to be sent abroad occasionally on assignments for those corporate clients.
Increasingly I am asked to produce digital files, and 10 months ago I bought a D1X ( having cut my teeth on a co-owned D760) and started to establish new work-flows. I have used PS for about 5 years, and all was well until about three months ago, when I started to find focus increasingly off target - the subject would be soft, while the background was pin sharp. This happens to various degrees, whether manual or AF, and not every frame. I recently photographed two people together in daylight (manual focussing to make sure) and I've had to reject over half the 300 images. USM doesn't help. This was all brought to a head when a client compared my shots with another photographers and mine looked terrible. I've sent the camera back to Nikon, but two colleagues have had similarly unnerving experiences, one with a D1, and one with D100.
I know this is a long post but good clients are hard to get and harder to keep! I'd be very keen to hear any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong, or from anyone with similar experiences with the D1X. Other sites on the web rave about the camera - I'm not so sure now and will readily change systems to find the quality I need.
Many thanks in advance
Steve Shipman
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