Dioptric Adjustment

[Todd]

Greetings All-
This has got to be a stupid question! How do you correctly adjust it, I know how and where on the camera, however, 70% of the adjustment range looks fine. I have 20/10 vision and have not gotten an in-focus shot in manual, thus I broke down and tried AF and finally have shots in focus. I do not wish to take 200 shots trying to get correlation established because I would be blind before I could it adjusted correctly! Do I live with autofocus?

Thanks~

Todd Asher

[oops]

Funny you should say this. Last weekend I had my lens on autofocus, daylight shot, and the image was out of focus with diopter set at zero. Hmmmm, gotta be a lens problem. Never had this problem before.

Re-position, refocus; same problem. Switch off autofocus and set super sharp in manual, (to my eye).
Guess what? The shots came out super sharp. This is the exact opposite of what you experienced.

I'm with you, Todd. Now what?

[Uffe]

Hi Todd,

sounds to me if you have the same problem I had. Check out the thread http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2289 - maybe it can help you too...

/Uffe.

[Todd]

Greetings
Thanks for the replies guys. I'm off the read the aforementioned thread and hope it solves my problem.
-Chris, if you are using a -1D there is a problem with frontfocusing on some bodies. I have yet to do much research on it , however, you can check robgalbraith.com in the EOS-1D forum where there are a host of threads covering -1D problems and one of them is frontfocusing. Once I can nail down the manual focus I'll follow up on AF problems, if any.

Todd Asher