michael heffernan wrote: > I have been shooting with a kodak dcs slr/n camera for a few months now and > have had consistent problems with back focusing, - eg focus on the eyes and > the actual focus point seems to be on the ears. I tend to shoot at max > aperture because of shooting in available light or to get soft > backgrounds. I have tried both manual and auto focus.
Your problem would be a lot simpler if it only related to AF. It would seem odd that it happens in manual focus as well - when presumably it looks sharp on the eyes through the viewfinder, but then becomes focussed elsewhere on the final digital file. I'm not doubting that this is happening, just that I find it difficult how it could happen (short of a manufacturing fault in the positioning of the the CMOS) on an SLR which, by its nature, the focus point you see through the viewfinder is what you get on the film/sensor. But having said that, an almost idential problem appeared to occur to a number of Canon bodies... Sorry if this next bit sounds like I'm teaching you how to suck eggs - but is it possible that you have your focussing on "M/A" rather than "M" - so the (incorrect) autofocus is overiding your (correct) manual focussing ? The only solutions I can think of for this happening on manual could be an incorrectly set diopter (unlikely - it would make everything out of focus, not move the focussing point) or "operator error" (again extremely unlikely if it's happening on a regular basis or with other photographers) A colleague of mine who uses Nikon autofocus on a daily basis for slow-moving targets (people walking into court) claims that he has quite a few problems with the Nikon AF on the D1-series, and now also on the D2H. In his words it is "too clever for its own good" when it tries to predict the path of a slow moving object, and he only uses it on single servo with none of the predictive settings switched on. Nick McGowan-Lowe =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
