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Last week I calibrated my lens' sunday...
All of them...
24-70 Tamron, +-0
50mm Nikon F1.8G +1
105 Nikon AF-S Micro +-0
Tamron 70-200 F2.8..... +16 (!!)
150-600 Tamron +-0
Is there anything I can do to calibrate my lens permanently? Any store that can help with a greymarket product that had 2 accidents.... Or can I buy a device like SIGMA offers, that I can plug onto the lens and do it myself? I feel the AF becomes slower with AF Finetune enabled, but it was fairly dim when I finally played around afterwards... January is really short days in Scandinavia...
The accidents:
Once, mounted on D5200, the knob mount thing fell out of the freaking foot, directly down and hit concreat, it survived and I didnt notice any issues except scratch on the hood and buttom of D5200 at the corner..
Second
Wife went crazy and threw D800E with 70-200 mounted against the sofa, the lens managed to jump out of the mount!!
She was told if she ever throws with my camera again, she will need to find another husband, that was a one time episode....
I believe it is the sofa episode that has hurt the lens...
On other note:
AF-Fine tune on zoom is trouble... At 24 and 70 the point isnt exactly same, same goes for 150-600 and 70-200, thereby I have found a balance that I find suitable... I mostly shoot my 70-200 at 85-150 but also sometimes at full 200... I almost never shoot below 85..
The 150-600 I shoot at 500-525 most of the time.
24-70, nothing more common than other, it is a really amazing daily lens, despite that it is slightly slow, but hands down, if/WHEN I get the SIGMA 50 ART, it'll be less used...
*50mm F1.8G is only used if I need the low DoF, the VC on 24-70 more than compensates for the better shutter..
What I really would wish for would be F1.4-F1.8 primes with VR..
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