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Lens Alignment

Postby Bob G on 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.
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Re: Lens Alignment

Postby Big V on Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:55 pm

Bob, you must have been pleased that most of your lenses did not need adjusting.
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Re: Lens Alignment

Postby devilla101 on Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:13 am

Wow those are some big adjustments.

I've got this tool as well. Bob, how far did you set the camera from Lensalign when testing the Nikon 500 x 1.4tc :).
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Re: Lens Alignment

Postby Bob G on Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:33 am

devilla101 wrote:Wow those are some big adjustments.

I've got this tool as well. Bob, how far did you set the camera from Lensalign when testing the Nikon 500 x 1.4tc :).


42ft - lucky I have a long hallway :)
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Re: Lens Alignment

Postby Bob G on Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:35 am

Big V wrote:Bob, you must have been pleased that most of your lenses did not need adjusting.


Yes. It's good to know. I probably never would have noticed the 14.24 was out a bit because I don't commonly use it in that close.
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Re: Lens Alignment

Postby devilla101 on Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:10 am

Bob G wrote:
devilla101 wrote:Wow those are some big adjustments.

I've got this tool as well. Bob, how far did you set the camera from Lensalign when testing the Nikon 500 x 1.4tc :).


42ft - lucky I have a long hallway :)


PWHOAARR, hot dang! :D
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Re: Lens Alignment

Postby Murray Foote on Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:24 am

That's encouraging you found yours so close. I tested some of mine a while ago with a more manual method and didn't find any error. Maybe I did know what I was doing after all!
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Re: Lens Alignment

Postby aim54x on Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:56 am

Bob G wrote:42ft - lucky I have a long hallway :)


That is a VERY long hallway! Glad to see that most of your lenses are aligned nicely
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