Nikon D7000 Not Focusing | Nikon Cameras | Photo Forum

I have Nikon D7000 with Nikkor 18-200mm zoom lense.

The camera is backfocusing with about 0.7 in behind the DOE with close up shots.

I watched the wonderful lessons (Lessons # 1-9, 17, and 18) provided by Oksana to refresh myself on the science and art of the photography.

I tried to adujst the autofocus AF Fine Tune but i am not having much luck to bring the camera to fine the desired fine tunning. the set up i used are as follows:

– manul focus

– hold the camer on tripod

– shoot via self timer

– used single and middle focus point.

– object consisted of a card board with template of fine lines showing circles, squares, cross, diamond shapes, set in front of the camera with 45 degres

– Object is about 3.25 feet from the camera

– aperature is 4

– shutter speed 500 (set by the camera)

– ISO: 100

when i adjusted the AF fine tune between -15 thru 0 to +20, nothing happened. Regardless of AF Fine Tune setting, best focus was showing at about 0.7 inch behind the targeted focus point (DOE).

Any suggestion for how to fix/tune the camera to fix the focus problem? or i need to send it to Nikon for repair?

thanks

ramiz