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I wasn't expecting to learn much but was I surprised. Never knew AF sensors could get dirty and that the AF points in the viewfinder could be inaccurate. Will be printing the test chart and checking my cameras. Excellent.
I was super happy and a lucky one to fixed the issue by just cleaning the connectors. the af would not focus at all, or would work but in af-c would constantly rattle, trying to find focus. Now it's buttery smooth. thanks!
Thank you Steve, and I also know that that alot of people are not getting a sharp focus because their camera's auto focus is on while using a tripod, with this, the camera will think there is something it needs to adjust just when you take a photo shot.
Excellent. I had a major focus problem with my K-1 for only one lens, a TAMRON 28-75, i have gone to the K-1 setup to fine adjust the focus for this lens and got a right focus now. Thank you for these useful informations.
I'm a total novice and wilderness photography & mostly video will be my focus. Thank you for a well put tutorial that was easy to understand. Too many pros talk to newbies as if they are already packed with the technical terminology.
Hi Steve, I had been shooting for....rrrr...and embarrassingly I had been shooting single point AF-S for over 20 years until i bought your ebook yesterday. One word for you here is - a BIG THANK YOU for reducing the amount of my blurry images moving forward!
I've purchased and chewed through your Metering/Exposure book as well as Secrets to Auto Focus. Both are fantastic. I'm a Canadian Military photographer, Imagery Technician, and both books have been invaluable to me at work and at home while shooting. Highly recommended.
Steve, I want to thank you for your wonderfull works. I love the way you present thing. Even if I am French from Quebec, I always understand your explanations. I follow you since at least 4 or 5 years and I realy appreciate your presentation. It's clear, accurate and very very interesting. And your shots sometime makes me falling down of my chair ! Sorry for my English. Thanks to you Steve
Thank you so much for this video! I tried everything on my mirrorless Olympus Pen EPL9. One of my lenses was working fine while the other was no longer able to autofocus, which I need for videos. I thought I broke my lens as the problem occurred after my lens was exposed to humidity during a longer trip. I don't have a cleaning mode on my camera, but I blew air inside after turning it on without the lens, as I figured this was the only way of getting in that area. The problem was solved thanks to this, really appreciate your time in making this video!!
Hi Steve, this is an excellent presentation. Judging by the ratio of likes to dislikes, it is amongst the best videos on the topic. Really appreciated your insight of the dirty AF sensor and the proper cleaning techniques.
Thanks! It's funny - on my last trip my D500 wasn't focusing very well and wasn't able to track anything. I actually thought maybe the camera was having an issue but first blew off the AF sensors. A small little dust bunny floated out of the mirror box and my AF problems were over :) And that's not the first time that little trick has worked for me.
OMG! Thank you. Just bought a 7200 and could figure out why my AF was off across the entire frame. From a distance it seemed like it was sort of focusing but zoomed in nothing was and having watched this I adjusted my camera from AF-S A to AF-S S and bingo problem solved. I love this camera now.
THANK YOU for this video! My Canon EOS 5D Mark IV began being unable to autofocus when the central AF point was selected and I've spent the most horrific 24 hours pretty much tearing my hair out, convulsing out of despair, and wondering what to do, as I have a planned trip coming up soon and I'm just not going with a slightly malfunctioning camera. Your advice to clean the AF sensor solved my problem and I am nearly in tears of joy at the moment. My camera got me quite emotionally unstable these past 24 hours, but I love it so.
What a superb video 🤓 I had thought of this exact problem but in totally the wrong direction 😳🥴😔 you have explained this perfectly for me, a total amateur photographer, when I say amateur I mean it !!! A friend of mine put me onto you and I must admit I do find you extremely interesting and once I get used to the speed you speak at ( no criticism here it’s just me being a Brit 😅😅😅 ) thank you for all the time you spend teaching us SO much about this glorious hobby 😎🤩😍 I recently got the Nikon D850, previous camera was a D80 so you can see I’ve made quite the jump 😳😅🤣 I can’t afford the Z cameras but at 62 I think this will be my last camera so I’m happy as I can still use my old lenses from my D80. I use her now for my B/W photography. Anyway thanks very much for ALL you do for us you truly are making me think about my photography and enjoy it more as my techniques are getting much better especially with my new camera 🤩🤩🤩
Many thanks for the tips!! I was having issues with my 70-200mm F2.8 Nikon (on multiple bodies) and was going quite nuts trying to figure out why it wouldn't focus properly. If I pushed it to one extreme end of the range, it would come back and focus but then I'd have to do it again for the next shot. Quite a PITA as Grizzlies don't tend to want to wait around! I had tried everything (at least I thought I had) and couldn't get it to work properly. I was just about to send it in for service when I saw your video and realized that I hadn't tried cleaning the contacts!! (Duh!!) You guessed it, working like a charm again and no big service charges for sending it in. Thank Steve!!!
Awesome! I actually just had to clean the contacts on my D5 and 600mm - it was acting odd from time to time - and everything went back to normal instantly.
You always present great videos Mr. Perry! Consistently clear, concise, and very informative. You, Lindsay Adler, Joe McNally, Daniel Norton and Jerry Ghionis comprise my A list of youtube instructors. I have learned a lot from your videos even after shooting professionally for 15 years. Please keep them coming!
Thank you so much. You advice was very valuable to me. I just bought a Nikon F4s and it is suppose to arrive today. I am so excited to start taking pictures of wildlife.
Great video with a lot to digest. I took a shot of our cat (Nikon D3200/18-55mm/1/250@F8/Manual focus) in bright daylight. One eye is sharp, the other is slightly blurred. Driving me nuts!
Steve, As always a very impressive video! To say that you have a remarkable talent for explaing technical subject matter with absolute clarity would be quite an understatement. Although a very experienced photography I never fail to learn something new when reading your articles or watching your videos. And if your fantasic E Book "Secrets To Stunning Wildlife Photography" was a printed on paper version I'd have worn the pages out months ago I refer to it so often. Keep up the Great Work!
Stopped by, picked up some valuable information, liked and subscribed. I've had my Canon 5D Mark IV almost 3y, and it's a BIG learning curve up from a 50D. Many thanks.
Steve, you rock! What you made here is a simple, yet effective video on a subject that everyone kinda knows, however you gave it a meaning and logic behind it. Good job and thank you
Another great video, Steve. I especially like the pacing of your presentations, the precise terminology, and the high production quality. And I always learn something! Many thanks.
Steve, I tried your tip of using AF GRP setting for my sports images with the D500 and my images are actually sharper than using single focus point - thanks - wonderful reviews
Steve: I enjoy your videos much, even though I have a hard time understanding them. For two years I have been unable t walk which puts limits on my mobility and thus my ability to make a contribution to your website at this time, plus I suffer from a form of dimentia related to my condition. I hope you understand. Bob Nicholson
Thanks for another great video and for sharing your techniques with us. I am a new viewer to your channel, and you may have covered my question in another video. My question is: Are 3 to 5 year old children at a Xmas celebration, or at a birthday party, easier or harder to get good, in-focus pictures of than wild animals in the field (when using longer focal length lenses on the animals, shorter ones for the children, but auto-focusing in both cases).
Glad I found this video. Going to try the calibration tricks. I’m wondering if some of my issues are my eyesight. Was shooting some raccoons playing in a pond yesterday using my viewfinder due to the sun being a bit too harsh for using live view. Came home and looked at the photos to find out other parts of the scene were in focus but a lot of the time the raccoons weren’t. In the viewfinder they looked in focus but they ended up not.
Hi Steve, great video, I shoot football pics and my method of fine tuning my lens is with f2.8 take a pic of a stationary players feet at about 50 yds and fine tune the lens on the surrounding grass, easy!
Thanks for this great video! Easy to understand, well paced so that notes can be taken while listening to your presentation. Biggest challenge for me with my Canon t7 has been trying to capture birds in flight. I am a newbie that is trying not to get frustrated in trying to capture them. The good news is that this is digital and I am not going through a lot of film (LOL), so the saving grace on that. Thanks
Here is a thing about Auto Focus Fine Tuning. I have a Nikon-D850 body and one of my favorite lens is the 200-500mm. I use this 90% of the time on the far end. And therefore decided to calibrate the lens at 500mm, using the AF Fine tuning. Having set up the camera and high contrast target, I went through the procedure. Everytime it would give a different value for adjustment from +1 to +10. I proceeded as Steve had suggested in his book. Well after twenty different reading, I took an average of about +8.63. Set the value as +9. Absolutely no improvement. Set it at +8, nothing. In desperation tried all the value from +1 to +10, -1 to -10 with useless results. Then I switched off the AF Tuning. And oh! boy! Crisp, Clear and highly focused Photos. Then I tried my 70-200mm f2.8 and other lenses. They all work the best with AutoFocus switched off. So before you plunge your hard earned money in useless gadgets and software, Manually check setting at all points of adjustment as well as AFT turned off.
This was fantastic, I just wish I would have seen it yesterday. My first time using AI servo, single point focus to shoot my nephews football game...a disaster. I hope in a way it's one of these problems you've mentioned. Canon 80D with a Tamron 2.8 G2. Out of about 450 shots, maybe 5 were in total focus, (sharp)...the rest were out of focus, actually the players next to him were much sharper, even though I know I had the 1 focus point on him. I'll have to check lens calibration...and technique. Thanks for the very informative video.
Thank you so much for a great video. I have had major problems with my auto-focus. Cleaned the sensor according to your tip and now the camera works perfectly. Greetings from Sweden 👍
Another great and extremely informative video. Thanks so much Steve, your knowlege and ability to present has helped me out a several times. It is greatly appreciated.
Very helpful content, Steve. Also like your unpretentious yet passionate presentation style. Would not hesitate to recommend your channel to anyone looking to improve their technique and get more out of their zoo/wildlife photography.
Steve is such a nice guy and is one reason I don't make RUclips videos lol...I wouldn't have put that, "I recently ran into a guy stuck in Single point!" Haha
This was helpful! I couldn't understand why my lens kept pulsing as I tried to gain focus. Turns out I had inadvertently flipped on the continuous AF instead of single AF...
This is a great video! Very informative. Now I know why af fails in my canon.. first, it might be the AF sensors are dirty.. second, the contacts are dirty.. but i dont know how to solve those problems 😯
Excellent presentation. Wish you had a Sony camera illustrating some of your points but I can see that the principles can be applied to any camera. I will be purchasing your on-line book for sure. Unfortunately my credit card was compromised yesterday and I’m now waiting for the new one. I definitely will be back.
Thank you Steve - much appreciated.!. Very Interesting presentation - It gave me a chance to learn new functions of my camera - while trying to figure out why my D7200 body and 200-500 doesn't seem to synch. I'll make sure to listen to your other presentation as well.!.
hey thanks!. I needed the camera for a project the next three days. I tried everything to get the auto focus to work again and just about gave up when I heard you talking about cleaning the contacts. I did, several times and no luck. Because I'm anal retentive, I cleaned them one more time - and vallah, it's working again!! Really appreciate your help, thank you!
Great video. Learned a lot. Strangely when I take my z6 out in the cold, sub zero temperatures, these days, i just can't get anything in focus. I'll look at these issues but so odd that one day it's fine and now I have a keeper rate of 0%
You are very good. Unfortunately, I am a Canon user and can barely use some of the wonderful technique described by .you. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I just discovered another way to AF fine tune your auto focus.Put on your TV Set and focus your camera on the TV.If you see moiree circels your camera,lens is fine tuned perfectly.I did this with my D4 and 200-400mm 4,0 lens in the 200 and 400mm mode and my super zoom was perfectly AF Fine Tuned.
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I wasn't expecting to learn much but was I surprised. Never knew AF sensors could get dirty and that the AF points in the viewfinder could be inaccurate. Will be printing the test chart and checking my cameras. Excellent.
I was super happy and a lucky one to fixed the issue by just cleaning the connectors. the af would not focus at all, or would work but in af-c would constantly rattle, trying to find focus. Now it's buttery smooth. thanks!
Thank you Steve, and I also know that that alot of people are not getting a sharp focus because their camera's auto focus is on while using a tripod, with this, the camera will think there is something it needs to adjust just when you take a photo shot.
Excellent. I had a major focus problem with my K-1 for only one lens, a TAMRON 28-75, i have gone to the K-1 setup to fine adjust the focus for this lens and got a right focus now.
Thank you for these useful informations.
Wow. 2 minutes googling autofocus issues and found this. The information in this video will keep me experimenting for days. Thanks Steve.
I have a problem with Nikon D810.The problem is there is a dark side in the outline of the pic.Anyone can help me.
I'm a total novice and wilderness photography & mostly video will be my focus. Thank you for a well put tutorial that was easy to understand. Too many pros talk to newbies as if they are already packed with the technical terminology.
Hi Steve, I had been shooting for....rrrr...and embarrassingly I had been shooting single point AF-S for over 20 years until i bought your ebook yesterday. One word for you here is - a BIG THANK YOU for reducing the amount of my blurry images moving forward!
Thanks for the purchase and I'm glad it helped :)
I've purchased and chewed through your Metering/Exposure book as well as Secrets to Auto Focus. Both are fantastic. I'm a Canadian Military photographer, Imagery Technician, and both books have been invaluable to me at work and at home while shooting. Highly recommended.
Thanks a lot sir. 🎉🎉
Thanks so much!
Steve, I want to thank you for your wonderfull works. I love the way you present thing. Even if I am French from Quebec, I always understand your explanations. I follow you since at least 4 or 5 years and I realy appreciate your presentation. It's clear, accurate and very very interesting. And your shots sometime makes me falling down of my chair ! Sorry for my English. Thanks to you Steve
This is the best AF troubleshoot video on youtube
Thank you so much for this video! I tried everything on my mirrorless Olympus Pen EPL9. One of my lenses was working fine while the other was no longer able to autofocus, which I need for videos. I thought I broke my lens as the problem occurred after my lens was exposed to humidity during a longer trip. I don't have a cleaning mode on my camera, but I blew air inside after turning it on without the lens, as I figured this was the only way of getting in that area. The problem was solved thanks to this, really appreciate your time in making this video!!
That's awesome! Glad it helped :)
Hi Steve, this is an excellent presentation. Judging by the ratio of likes to dislikes, it is amongst the best videos on the topic. Really appreciated your insight of the dirty AF sensor and the proper cleaning techniques.
Thanks! It's funny - on my last trip my D500 wasn't focusing very well and wasn't able to track anything. I actually thought maybe the camera was having an issue but first blew off the AF sensors. A small little dust bunny floated out of the mirror box and my AF problems were over :) And that's not the first time that little trick has worked for me.
You sir are the best! Straight shooter. I’ve learned more watching your videos than any other camera youtuber. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for this.. just tried the 1st step.. and it works perfectly on my 70-200 gm1 lens..🙏🙏☺️
OMG! Thank you. Just bought a 7200 and could figure out why my AF was off across the entire frame. From a distance it seemed like it was sort of focusing but zoomed in nothing was and having watched this I adjusted my camera from AF-S A to AF-S S and bingo problem solved. I love this camera now.
THANK YOU for this video! My Canon EOS 5D Mark IV began being unable to autofocus when the central AF point was selected and I've spent the most horrific 24 hours pretty much tearing my hair out, convulsing out of despair, and wondering what to do, as I have a planned trip coming up soon and I'm just not going with a slightly malfunctioning camera. Your advice to clean the AF sensor solved my problem and I am nearly in tears of joy at the moment. My camera got me quite emotionally unstable these past 24 hours, but I love it so.
What a superb video 🤓 I had thought of this exact problem but in totally the wrong direction 😳🥴😔 you have explained this perfectly for me, a total amateur photographer, when I say amateur I mean it !!! A friend of mine put me onto you and I must admit I do find you extremely interesting and once I get used to the speed you speak at ( no criticism here it’s just me being a Brit 😅😅😅 ) thank you for all the time you spend teaching us SO much about this glorious hobby 😎🤩😍 I recently got the Nikon D850, previous camera was a D80 so you can see I’ve made quite the jump 😳😅🤣 I can’t afford the Z cameras but at 62 I think this will be my last camera so I’m happy as I can still use my old lenses from my D80. I use her now for my B/W photography. Anyway thanks very much for ALL you do for us you truly are making me think about my photography and enjoy it more as my techniques are getting much better especially with my new camera 🤩🤩🤩
Excellent, excellent, excellent. Steve shares professional advice with the world. And does so in a very instructive way. Thanks.
Many thanks for the tips!! I was having issues with my 70-200mm F2.8 Nikon (on multiple bodies) and was going quite nuts trying to figure out why it wouldn't focus properly. If I pushed it to one extreme end of the range, it would come back and focus but then I'd have to do it again for the next shot. Quite a PITA as Grizzlies don't tend to want to wait around! I had tried everything (at least I thought I had) and couldn't get it to work properly. I was just about to send it in for service when I saw your video and realized that I hadn't tried cleaning the contacts!! (Duh!!) You guessed it, working like a charm again and no big service charges for sending it in. Thank Steve!!!
Awesome! I actually just had to clean the contacts on my D5 and 600mm - it was acting odd from time to time - and everything went back to normal instantly.
Holy Auto Focus Batman, that's a lot of info, Fast! Great Tutorial.
You always present great videos Mr. Perry! Consistently clear, concise, and very informative. You, Lindsay Adler, Joe McNally, Daniel Norton and Jerry Ghionis comprise my A list of youtube instructors. I have learned a lot from your videos even after shooting professionally for 15 years. Please keep them coming!
Thank you so much. You advice was very valuable to me. I just bought a Nikon F4s and it is suppose to arrive today.
I am so excited to start taking pictures of wildlife.
Thank you! I blew the AF sensors with the blower and now AF works.
thank you so much..was facing issue with AF...i cleaned the contacts ..it worked
Great video with a lot to digest. I took a shot of our cat (Nikon D3200/18-55mm/1/250@F8/Manual focus) in bright daylight. One eye is sharp, the other is slightly blurred. Driving me nuts!
you never cease to impress with the tips and tricks you have in your videos. thank you so much
Great straight forward video and a good refresher on autofocus - thanks
I saved this so that I can watch it again after following your suggestions. Thanx
Steve, As always a very impressive video! To say that you have a remarkable talent for explaing technical subject matter with absolute clarity would be quite an understatement. Although a very experienced photography I never fail to learn something new when reading your articles or watching your videos. And if your fantasic E Book "Secrets To Stunning Wildlife Photography" was a printed on paper version I'd have worn the pages out months ago I refer to it so often. Keep up the Great Work!
+boatman222345 Thanks so much for the kind words and the book purchase! I'm glad it's been helpful :)
You’re really growing on me, Steve! Thanks for all the awesome content
Stopped by, picked up some valuable information, liked and subscribed. I've had my Canon 5D Mark IV almost 3y, and it's a BIG learning curve up from a 50D. Many thanks.
Wow! I've had problems with focus for a while! Big piece of lint on af sensor. Thank You!
Steve, you rock!
What you made here is a simple, yet effective video on a subject that everyone kinda knows, however you gave it a meaning and logic behind it. Good job and thank you
I really liked you video. It helped me solve a persistent issue. A minor note: "The lens needs" to be "calibrated".
Thanks, you really explain the difficult very simply.
Excellent! I got some great tips from this video! Will be watching it again and again.
Another great video, Steve. I especially like the pacing of your presentations, the precise terminology, and the high production quality. And I always learn something! Many thanks.
couldn't for the life of me work out why my d7200 was focus hunting so badly on the last trip I took, thanks for the tips on cleaning the AF sensor!
Hi Steve. I came across your video while looking for a solution for my autofocus problems. Thanks to your advice I'm back up and running!
Wow you have a way with words, so easy to understand and very informative.
Steve, I tried your tip of using AF GRP setting for my sports images with the D500 and my images are actually sharper than using single focus point - thanks - wonderful reviews
Thanks! I didn't even think to look for dirty AF sensors.
Great video explained a lot to me as a beginner in photography having a blast TY
I haven,,t watched his videos before but I find this one very informative. I hope to here more from him in the future.
Steve: I enjoy your videos much, even though I have a hard time understanding them. For two years I have been unable t walk which puts limits on my mobility and thus my ability to make a contribution to your website at this time, plus I suffer from a form of dimentia related to my condition. I hope you understand.
Bob Nicholson
Awesome 👍. Your tutorials are always rich in information . Thanks
Thanks for another great video and for sharing your techniques with us. I am a new viewer to your channel, and you may have covered my question in another video. My question is: Are 3 to 5 year old children at a Xmas celebration, or at a birthday party, easier or harder to get good, in-focus pictures of than wild animals in the field (when using longer focal length lenses on the animals, shorter ones for the children, but auto-focusing in both cases).
clean image sensor option in NIkon solved my focus hunting problem . Thanks a tons
Thank you for helping me solve a decade old problem on my Nikon D90. Subscribed!
Glad I found this video. Going to try the calibration tricks. I’m wondering if some of my issues are my eyesight. Was shooting some raccoons playing in a pond yesterday using my viewfinder due to the sun being a bit too harsh for using live view. Came home and looked at the photos to find out other parts of the scene were in focus but a lot of the time the raccoons weren’t. In the viewfinder they looked in focus but they ended up not.
Another excellent and highly professional video thanks Steve
Hi Steve, great video, I shoot football pics and my method of fine tuning my lens is with f2.8 take a pic of a stationary players feet at about 50 yds and fine tune the lens on the surrounding grass, easy!
Thanks for this great video! Easy to understand, well paced so that notes can be taken while listening to your presentation. Biggest challenge for me with my Canon t7 has been trying to capture birds in flight. I am a newbie that is trying not to get frustrated in trying to capture them. The good news is that this is digital and I am not going through a lot of film (LOL), so the saving grace on that. Thanks
Here is a thing about Auto Focus Fine Tuning. I have a Nikon-D850 body and one of my favorite lens is the 200-500mm.
I use this 90% of the time on the far end. And therefore decided to calibrate the lens at 500mm, using the AF Fine tuning. Having set up the camera and high contrast target, I went through the procedure. Everytime it would give a different value for adjustment from +1 to +10. I proceeded as Steve had suggested in his book. Well after twenty different reading, I took an average of about +8.63. Set the value as +9. Absolutely no improvement. Set it at +8, nothing. In desperation tried all the value from +1 to +10, -1 to -10 with useless results. Then I switched off the AF Tuning. And oh! boy! Crisp, Clear and highly focused Photos. Then I tried my 70-200mm f2.8 and other lenses. They all work the best with AutoFocus switched off. So before you plunge your hard earned money in useless gadgets and software, Manually check setting at all points of adjustment as well as AFT turned off.
I agree 100% - ONLY use AFFT if you have an actual problem.
No.1 photography. 👍🙏🇮🇳
Another fantastic and helpful video Steve. Thanks!! 👍🏻📷
An enjojable well thoght out video about one of my gret passions. Great work Steve.
This was fantastic, I just wish I would have seen it yesterday. My first time using AI servo, single point focus to shoot my nephews football game...a disaster. I hope in a way it's one of these problems you've mentioned. Canon 80D with a Tamron 2.8 G2. Out of about 450 shots, maybe 5 were in total focus, (sharp)...the rest were out of focus, actually the players next to him were much sharper, even though I know I had the 1 focus point on him. I'll have to check lens calibration...and technique. Thanks for the very informative video.
Very educational indeed......so much to learn in Photography.........!
Thank you so much for a great video. I have had major problems with my auto-focus. Cleaned the sensor according to your tip and now the camera works perfectly. Greetings from Sweden 👍
you've given me hope and tools. thank you
Thank you for the great review Steve, your experience and knowledge are what makes your reviews the best.
I love your videos. I have a Nikon D7100 and a D800. I've learned to much from you.
Thx... very helpful... all my best from Bucharest...
Thanks Steve. I like your pace and straight forward style.
Thank you for this excellent tutorial.
There is so much information in their video, thanks for taking the time to make it.
Another great and extremely informative video. Thanks so much Steve, your knowlege and ability to present has helped me out a several times. It is greatly appreciated.
Very helpful content, Steve. Also like your unpretentious yet passionate presentation style. Would not hesitate to recommend your channel to anyone looking to improve their technique and get more out of their zoo/wildlife photography.
Steve is such a nice guy and is one reason I don't make RUclips videos lol...I wouldn't have put that, "I recently ran into a guy stuck in Single point!" Haha
Another great video, Steve!
You are fast becoming a favorite photo channel for me! Keep up the great work!
Excellent video Steve.... Lots of detail. Appreciate your sharing.
Great video that covers a ton of information., THANK YOU
Great video. Congrats!
Thanks Steve. I'll check out the cleaning of the contact points. My D500 has been dissapointingly soft vs the D4
Really excellent video, Steve! Some things covered in here I've never seen covered elsewhere before.
This was helpful! I couldn't understand why my lens kept pulsing as I tried to gain focus. Turns out I had inadvertently flipped on the continuous AF instead of single AF...
Hi Steve I am very impressed with you RUclips video. I find it very useful. I'm a photographer.
i use many lenses bat not properly work on focus
Great tips Steve!!! Thanks a lot for this very informative video.... It helps a lot
One of the best photography videos I've ever watched, thaaaanks Steve
This is a great video! Very informative. Now I know why af fails in my canon.. first, it might be the AF sensors are dirty.. second, the contacts are dirty.. but i dont know how to solve those problems 😯
Excellent presentation. Wish you had a Sony camera illustrating some of your points but I can see that the principles can be applied to any camera. I will be purchasing your on-line book for sure. Unfortunately my credit card was compromised yesterday and I’m now waiting for the new one. I definitely will be back.
Excellent video ! Thank you 👌🏾
WOW, great tutorial! Thanks a lot!
Your videos are always great with a lot of info, your books are also packed full of info. Thanks for your efforts
Thank you sir very useful for me
Thank you Steve - much appreciated.!. Very Interesting presentation - It gave me a chance to learn new functions of my camera - while trying to figure out why my D7200 body and 200-500 doesn't seem to synch. I'll make sure to listen to your other presentation as well.!.
Thank you so much. My camera started working again!
hey thanks!. I needed the camera for a project the next three days. I tried everything to get the auto focus to work again and just about gave up when I heard you talking about cleaning the contacts. I did, several times and no luck. Because I'm anal retentive, I cleaned them one more time - and vallah, it's working again!! Really appreciate your help, thank you!
Great video, Steve. I did buy your ebook a while back and found it to be a treasure trove of useful information to help me in my wildlife photography.
+Casey Balvert Thanks for the purchase - and for the kind words :)
Great video. Learned a lot. Strangely when I take my z6 out in the cold, sub zero temperatures, these days, i just can't get anything in focus. I'll look at these issues but so odd that one day it's fine and now I have a keeper rate of 0%
Good video!! Some of those I would have never thought could cause a failed AF situation. Thanks!
Excellent presentation. Very valuable even if you have been using a camera for 40 years. Love your pdf book
You are very good. Unfortunately, I am a Canon user and can barely use some of the wonderful technique described by .you. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Really helpful, my af is driving me barmy so I’ll take each one on board
Great work Steve, thank you :)
This guy is the man.
I just discovered another way to AF fine tune your auto focus.Put on your TV Set and focus your camera on the TV.If you see moiree circels your camera,lens is fine tuned perfectly.I did this with my D4 and 200-400mm 4,0 lens in the 200 and 400mm mode and my super zoom was perfectly AF Fine Tuned.
Puts hand to mouth and coughs ... PSHbullshitSSSS