That's correct. Feeling Dave's pain in running back and forth to the computer with the SD card to adjust focus, I will refer once again to the excellent, quick, live-view-based AF-adjusting method using one's monitor with a target pattern and moire:
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/cameras/1ds3_af_micoadjustment.html Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 9:12 AM Subject: Re: Question regarding AF Fine adjustment K-5 As you go to the adjustment screen, you have a choice of selecting the adjustment to apply to all lenses or just one. If you've selected just one each time you made an adjustment, I believe then the camera will recognize which lens it is and adjust accordingly. -p On 4/29/2012 7:55 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > Morning all. > > Yesterday was a nice day after a week of off and on rain, so i decided > to take the K-5 and my Sigma 300 f4 APO out for a spin to some marsh > areas a few miles north of me and do some birding. > > I have not used this lens in a while but first thing i noticed was it > seemed that it was not focusing properly. The AF would find what i was > aiming at but everything looked like a smear of Vaseline had been put > over the front element. > > So > > I decided it was a good time to check the af adjustment for this and > my FA 100 2.8 macro and my 77Ltd both of which i have suspected to be > out since my K10D days. I set up a table at the sunny end of my > garage, out of the wind and checked all three lenses. > > 300 f4 is now at -6 > FA 100 is now at +1 > 77 Ltd is now at +6 > > It took a while to do all three as i could not tell from the small LCD > screen so after each shot went into the house and looked at the shot > on the iMac. After i decided when each lens was correct is just > wondered around the back yard and shot test subjects and had a look > These random test shots look much better now, but i should do some > more field test just to be sure. > > Now my question, do i have to go to the af fine adjustment menu each > time i use one of these three lenses or leave the setting at as is and > the camera will see that it has an adjusted lens on and take the > correction into account. This is the first time i have worked with the > fine adjustment feature. > > Dave > > > -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
