Lens Alignment
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:54 pm
The wet weather gave me an opportunity to set up indoors and test the focusing on my lenses using a LensAlign Pro.
It's quite easy to set up once you get the hang of it and any camera which allows you to perform adjustments makes solving the problem easy when it is within the parameters of the adjustable scale. If you don't have a camera with this adjustment capability or the error of margin is too high then you need to send your gear to the workshop for adjustment.
Out of interest these were my results.
Nikon 14-24 f2.8 adjustment +20 front focusing
Nikon 24-70 f2.8 no adjustment
Nikon 70-200 f2.8 no adjustment
Nikon 85mm f1.4 adjustment +20 front focusing
Nikon 200 f2 no adjustment
Nikon 500 f4 no adjustment
Nikon 500 with 1.4tc no adjustment
Zeiss Distagon 21mm f2.8 no adjustment
Zeiss Makro Planar 100mm f2 no adjustment
I had some concern about the 500 and 1.4tc combo and I may test that again in better light when it fines up.
It's quite easy to set up once you get the hang of it and any camera which allows you to perform adjustments makes solving the problem easy when it is within the parameters of the adjustable scale. If you don't have a camera with this adjustment capability or the error of margin is too high then you need to send your gear to the workshop for adjustment.
Out of interest these were my results.
Nikon 14-24 f2.8 adjustment +20 front focusing
Nikon 24-70 f2.8 no adjustment
Nikon 70-200 f2.8 no adjustment
Nikon 85mm f1.4 adjustment +20 front focusing
Nikon 200 f2 no adjustment
Nikon 500 f4 no adjustment
Nikon 500 with 1.4tc no adjustment
Zeiss Distagon 21mm f2.8 no adjustment
Zeiss Makro Planar 100mm f2 no adjustment
I had some concern about the 500 and 1.4tc combo and I may test that again in better light when it fines up.