sorry for asking for your recomendation, but I have tried all I could :-(((
My first 1DN copy have to be returned to Canon. AF was WAY OFF with all my (on D60 nice working) lenses. The cam was practically not able to take one good focused frames. I have to wait more than 1 month for the excange.
I dosen't wanted to start out with a ~3500 EUR camera in a service.
Now I got another one (different SN#). Still have AF problems.
Sad, I only realy upgraded for the "super?" AF of the 1D from my D60.
Now I get OK focused shoots only in AI-SERVO AF mode. Even about static subjects. In ONE-SHOT AF mode I get (for me) untolerable high OOF rate.
I read the Manual, Canon EOS1D (.pdf) tipps and I had newer any problem with my focusing/framing habits on my D60.
What to do now?
Could you recomend any reliable service for (nedded?) AF calibration in
Austria. (Hungarian Canon service had bad fame )
In the viewfinder it looks OK, on the LCD I suspect zoomed in it is sh..t and on the monitor it is really way OOF.
It can't be motion blur, the flash fotos show the same tendency:
AI SERVO fine, ONE SHOT oof.
I can email you samples. But don't want you to bother.
(the CR2s are huge, but you can see even on downsized ones what I mean)
I know ther is a solution (my last hope is a good service or a 3rd 1DN copy).
Still I only read about Canon's QC horror I didn't believed it, but now :-(
Eduscho,
Is there any chance that, in one-shot mode, you are doing focus and recompose, because, depending on your aperture and depth of field, you
could be getting a parallax focusing error. That would account for why you
are having trouble in one-shot but not in servo mode.
Also, you might want to open up your pictures in EOS Viewer Utility and select the operation that allows you to see which focus point was active and where it was on the picture. That will allow you to confirm whether the camera was focusing where you thought it was. If the active focus point is where you thought it was, but that spot is not in focus and you focused and recomposed, I'd guess that there is a good chance that you do have a parallax focus error.
Les
A couple of things come to mind. First, that might be a hard subject for the AF. Ought to do better than that, though.
Second, you're shooting at 1/60 of a second, which might lead to camera shake (though it ought to be OK for 35mm on the 1D). I mention camera shake because it doesn't seem that anything is in focus, whereas with front- or back-focus you do get a plane of focus (albeit it the wrong place).
Thanks for pic-upload.
You are right I took it at 1/60 sec. but the real exposure is determined by the flash (it should be somwhere 1/10.000 sec or even shorter).
The ambient light wasn't enough.
I agree with Brook, f/2.8 @ 1/60 would not rule out camera shake.
Eduscho, do you have any UV filters on your lenses?, if so remove them just for testing. Also try to find a better subject in better light and try AF with center point and AI-Servo and MF with focus conformation(green light) and all on the center focus point. Check the images in EOS viewer and click on the focus icon to see if you actualy have that focus point illuminated. It is possable to take a shot without focus lock.
If you want to increase the shutter speed for flash, put the camera in M mode and dial in 1/200 shutter speed and f/4 and let your EX flash provide the light
The focus point indicator is only available in EOS Viewer utility, I'm not sure if you got a copy with the 1DN but it can be downloaded form the canon site.
I just suggest you do not use the UV for the test, 1 less item that can cause a problem. There have been some posts here about people having focus issues with some wide angle zooms which disapeared after removing the UV filters.
It seems strange you have this same problem with 2 1DN's yet your lenses are ok on your other body. I would be a little upset after spending €3500 and waiting for a replacement to have the same problem. Just try to eliminate the usual suspects such as shallow depth of focus with large f/stops and slow shutter speeds and use good contrast shooting subjects. I'll catch up with you tomorrow to see how you got on.
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