If you are not getting sharp images out your camera maybe you lens needs a calibration, especially if you have an old lens. It’s a technique that not many people know but, it’s a common practice for professional photographers.
Calibrate Canon Lens with Canon 7D with AF Microadjustments
In this video tutorial I will teach you how to calibrate your lens, however you will need to have a high-end camera like Canon 5D, 7D, 1D and few others. The trick doesn’t work on the consumer camera like Canon 400d. In my video, I will do the calibration with my 300mm lens manufactured in 1996. After one year, it lost its sharpness using the camera built-in AF Microadjustments.
Here is what you will need to to calibrate you lens
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