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Do all telephoto zoom lenses backfocus on the wide angle end?
I’ve just gone through a round of testing with two telephoto zooms, on two different cameras, and both appear to have significant back focus issues at the 70mm end.
I just had the Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 ...
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What factors influence whether a lens and camera combination front or back focus?
I know that sometimes a lens/body combo needs to be micro-adjusted to attain ideal focusing behavior, and that this is usually because of sample variation, but which parts of the lens and/or body are ...
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What do “Frontfocus” and “Backfocus” mean?
I've read those terms in a couple of lens reviews, and not even Wikipedia has an article about it.
So my questions are:
What is back/frontfocus?
What causes back/frontfocus?
Is there any preventive ...
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What is back-focusing?
What is back-focusing? Is it something I need to be worried about, or can I just live with it? How can I tell if my camera/lens is sufferring from it?
