Okay, Anthony, I confess! I've been on this list for a good bit, but I've
never heard of anyone mentioning "viewfinder registration" before. Perhaps
my memory is failing me. Please enlighten me!

On 11/11/04 18:48, Anthony Farr wrote:

> Also to consider is that SLRs are very intolerant to backfocus errors when
> wide angle lenses are used.  Wide angle lenses may have deep depth of field
> (at the subject plane) but they have critically narrow depth of focus (at
> the film plane).  I once thought that all my wides were crap until I checked
> the viewfinder registration of my cameras.  They were all out of register
> but normal and long lens shots still looked sharp.  Once that was fixed my
> wides all became top performers again.

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