You need to get images as clean as possible so you don’t want to increase the ISO. If your lens doesn’t go any wider (again the smallest aperture number) than 5.6 then you really don’t need to do this AFMA process. If you have one that opens up to 1.8 or 1.4 then set it there. Set your aperture to the very widest setting, which means the very smallest number possible.You can do this in manual mode but since you will be putting your camera on a tripod we don’t really care what the shutter speed is so that is one less thing to worry about. Set your shooting mode to aperture priority.Jeff talked about an 11 point setup needed to do AFMA: Not all DSLR cameras have the feature to do AFMA, but if it does then it is something worth doing – especially if you shoot portraits using narrow depth of field. Jeff talks about how autofocus micro adjustment (AFMA) is something specific to DSLR cameras, not needed and therefore not offered in mirrorless cameras. ![]() ![]() Why do it? When to do it? How important? Is it obsessive or necessary? Use a Lenscal device or just something you print yourself? ![]() Here's a Photo Taco episode if there ever was one: AF Microadjust/Fine Tune. Jeff Harmon answers year old listener question from Improve Photography writer Aaron Taylor:
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