I just recently acquired a DA40 and right away I noticed it was taking blurry pictures, even on a tripod with a IR remote. After messing around with it I was pretty certain it was front focusing. I had originally suspected that I might have FF problems with my body, but after posting some pictures here I was told I didn't, and 90% of the time I shoot in natural light so tungsten ff wouldn't of been noticed.
Well today I had a chance to take my da40 out and test it on the town, and it took some fabulous pictures, virtually all of which were in focus... which leads to me to think the front focus problems are only under tungsten.
I printed out a focus sheet, mounted my camera on a tripod and used my IR remote for these pictures. Shake reduction was disabled just in case you are wondering.
I also tested my 18-55mm kit lens and my 50-200mm telephoto. As far as I can tell the DA40 has extreme front focus problems, the 18-55mm also seems to be front focusing, but the 50-200mm seems to be focusing mostly fine.
Here the pictures of my tests, is this a camera or lens problem? What should I do?
DA40mm
18-55mm
50-200mm
I believe you can click and look at my flickr to see the all of test shots I took. Help and opinions are greatly appreciated. I realized after taking the first round of shots that I most likely should of done them vertically. Let me know if I should redo the others. Thanks,
Aaron