50D focus issues

Looking for some help and opinions here. I have been shooting with my 50D for about 8 months now, and don't always feel it is sharp, and I feel like I am seeing it become soft, or not accurately focus, beyond 20 feet.

This morning I did some testing with it, and shot with my cheapest lens, the nifty fifty at f4 and it was tack sharp on about 95% of shots. I put on my 7-200 and had to back off a little to get the framing I wanted, and immediately checked focus and felt it was soft. So I switched back to the 50mm and finished the shoot.

So, is this normal? I had an xsi before, and never felt I had focus issues. Since then I have upgrade glass, along with the body, and seem to get this issue often. I have micro adjusted every lens, and everything seems sharp up close, but at distances it seems to miss focus or be soft.

Looking at the shot below, give me some thoughts. If I do need to send it in for calibration, can anyone give me an idea of what I am looking at that costing?

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check your image with a program that shows what focus points were on when the shot was taken..

It looks like the foliage to the left is in focus and perhaps the top of her head.. If you are shooting wide open, the DOF is too shallow to have the face in focus.

Is this the same shot I saw at your house Scooter605? I can't remember...but, I recall the one where I thought the focus was missed too and fell on the grass. This is either the same pic or the same issue.

Different shot. I'll have to install DPP and check the focus point. Took 5 shots though and they are all soft.

Sorry Scooter I can't help you,, there is no EXIF data in our photo..

Have you tried an MA on your lenses and body?

Exif is on flickr, and yes, I have microadjusted.

LarryD wrote in post #12695608
check your image with a program that shows what focus points were on when the shot was taken..

It looks like the foliage to the left is in focus and perhaps the top of her head.. If you are shooting wide open, the DOF is too shallow to have the face in focus.

I thought that DPP or ZoomBrowser would show this, but it only overlays the AF points. Is there a way to see that ACTUAL focal point? Since I backbutton focus and recompose the overlay is not true.

Scooter650 wrote in post #12697991
I thought that DPP or ZoomBrowser would show this, but it only overlays the AF points. Is there a way to see that ACTUAL focal point? Since I backbutton focus and recompose the overlay is not true.

If you press and release the backbutton for focus, the focus point will not show in DPP. It will show in DPP if you were to hold down the backbutton while you release the shutter button.
...Terry
ps. sort of defeats the reason to remove the focus from the shutter button though.

So then its worthless info at that point and does not help me. Thanks for confirming it.