The capability to calibrate short, medium, long focal length for zooms would improve their lens performance at a modest cost. Nikon would also be well served to offer AF Fine Tune across the range of zoom lenses which most people calibrate for the long focal length since it the most critical. More users would see for themselves the amazing quality of Nikon's lenses which would create more customer loyalty. Nikon would be well served to include a calibration program with all of their super telephoto lenses, or suggest it is necessary to achieve maximum lens performance on every camera body. This is a need that will remain until we get to high performance mirrorless cameras that are as good as dSLR's for focusing fast action shots. Doing this will not only enhance their customer's experience for getting the best quality out of their lenses it will also reduce returns because many Nikon users are unaware of the need to calibrate their lenses to each of their camera bodies. Nikon is shooting themselves in the foot by not making the calibration process a no brainer for their users. Why is Nikon not supporting interfacing at least their pro FX gear, and high end DX gear that frequently will use their most expensive normal and super telephoto lenses with calibration software like Reikan's, and others? For example my 600mm FL ED is either -2, 0,0,+1 on my primary cameras, but adding the TC17E ii changes those settings by as much -13 to -15, so calibration with a TC frequently makes dramatic difference in quality. IF we use Nikon's Teleconverters the need to AF Fine Tune is essential to get anything close to the quality potential of each TC/Lens combination because the variations AF Fine Tune can be huge.

Regardless none the newer cameras including the Nikon D4 and D4S in the FX, or DX models.ĪF Fine Tuning lenses is important, especially with the faster normal / super telephoto lens including our zoom lenses. This seems strange since it works with the older Nikon D3 and D3S models. However, ALL of the newer Nikon cameras in FX, and DX have to be calibrated semi-automatically / manually which means I have to stand there dialing in the numbers for the software when doing AF Fine Tuning because Nikon now does not interface Reikan software to change the AF Fine Tuning. Luckily for me, two of my full frame cameras are still D3S models which use the full auto calibration features of the Reikan software, which is delightful to use. I've changed a lot of my gear this year so have been doing a lot of lens calibrations with Reikan Focal Pro.

I know there are other threads on camera calibration methods but I feel like we have a missing that Nikon could do something about to make all of our lives better.

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