Canon Precision Alignment?

Comet Hunter

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I got an email from Canon with an offer to precision align my R8 to any lens I choose, (or multiple lenses) At a kinda hefty fee of course.
My question is, has anyone done this, what are the benifits? Is it really needed etc.
Thx Ed
 

AlanLichty

Moderator
I have owned/used Canon cameras for over 35 years now (9 separate camera bodies) and 8 of their lenses and have never had this done. If someone else has and can show me a useful result I am listening......
 

JimFox

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Staff member
This was common to do in the old days of DSLR's. I would test each of my lenses and I had to calibrate them, but with Nikon it was just easy to do yourself.

But with Mirrorless, it uses a totally different focusing system so I don't see any reason why to do it. And Canon I would think would have built into the menu system a way to calibrate the lens if needed.

Are your lenses not focusing properly? If they aren't broke, don't fix it. Easiest way, is to just take a photo and zoom in 100% to your focus point, the point you focused on, and is it sharp or not? Make sure you don't zoom in past 100% because if you do, most things will start to soften because you are digitally zooming in now.

But I would never ever pay for it to be done. But I am sure people do it, perhaps the same people who when there is dust on their sensor send it in to be cleaned and pay for that as opposed to just cleaning the sensor themselves.
 

Comet Hunter

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Thanks, I am not having issues, just wondered/leaninrg about the camera

I googled R8/Lens calabration and found this feature built in the camera menu as Jim thought it might be: "Vignetting, image distortion, and other issues may be caused by lens optical characteristics. The camera can compensate for these phenomena by using [
Shooting
: Lens aberration correction]."


I read the main reason to send it in to have it done if some damage happened and repaired, which is a different ballgame!
Thanks for your thoughts!
 
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