DjMagra’s stuff ‘n’ stuff

I’ve written and complained on a few occasions about the fact that my camera, a Canon EOS 20D, has had focusing problems. This was initially apparent with the Canon EF-S 17 - 85mm lens that I bought with the camera, but, became a whole lot more apparent when I purchased a Canon EF 70 - 200 f2.8 L late last year. The camera was clearly ‘front focusing’ by quite a large amount, and so, the camera was sent off to Canon for repairs.

Of course, the first time around, the repairs did not work, so, the camera was sent off again, with the 17-85 attached. Canon on both occasions noticed that there was a problem, and so calibrated the 17 - 85 together. However, this made things worse with the 70-200. Now, bear in mind that the 20D coupled with the 70-200 is over EUR 4,000 worth of kit, and you can see why I’m a little pissed off. I’ve left things lie for quite a while, and haven’t actually been using the camera all that much, but, a few shots recently have made me start to loose patience. I shall be seeking to speak to someone in Canon service managment shortly to try and gain a satisfactory response to this problem, so, if anyone has any contacts, or knows somewhere I can start talking, please let me know.

And finally, an example of a shot that I took last night with the 70-200. I purposely compensated for the front focus issue in this shot, selecting the AF point sitting on Nora’s right shoulder, but as you can see, even with this deliberate compensation (not the way to have to take shots with pro-level kit!), the sharpest area of the photo is actually the foreground in the bottom right, way ahead of the subject!!

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