Sorry, the second is outside, that's the front patio, with flash, but underexposed a bit intentionally to show that it was night.
I'm finding it way too consistent, even with flash, the subject is always slightly out of focus, and the background(if it is within a foot) is always in focus.
Thanks, that was why I tested the LV vs AF points first, to see if it was an issue with my lens(it wasn't)
I get slightly better results with the kit 18-55 lens, I've just started shooting with flash and f 5.6 or smaller, good enough for the internet, but not crisp and nice like I was getting earlier on. This is an example of focus I'm pretty happy with considering it was a quick snap while in the middle of eating and him throwing something at me, but same kind of distance and lighting now even on a tripod with flash, and a still subject and I get blurry faces, despite doing everything the same, or more carefully, it just isn't turning out. I can post this older one, because it was already uploaded to my gallery.
My most recent examples(I'm having trouble uploading again, the joys of cell phone based internet) are a boy sitting 1' in front of a wall with texture, center focus right between the eyes from 5' away, bright overhead lights and flash at 1/180. The wall is again clearer than the subject, the eyes are showing obvious signs of lack of focus especially(no eyelashes visible)
If I shoot at a 45 degree angle to a wall(highly patterned, easy to focus on) at F 2.8 I can clearly see the focus plane is not where I focused.
I'm going to try and set up my tripod and do some testing, but first I have to find someone with a printer to print a test sheet, a bit tricky where I am right now.