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Three basic ways exist to do the actual shooting work to
determine focus adjustments:
• Shoot and download. Shoot normally with several
different adjustments, then pull the images up on your
favorite image browser and look at them at 100% view.
Choose the adjustment value that looks the sharpest.
• Shoot it live with Camera Control Pro 2.0. By properly
setting up Camera Control Pro 2.0 and ViewNX or another
program for viewing a watched folder, you can shoot and
evaluate very quickly. It almost becomes an optometrist
exam: make an adjustment, shoot, now say "better or
worse." If it's better, keep adjusting that direction, if it's
worse, reverse course and adjust the other direction.
• Live View (Handheld mode
way is to use Live View. The drawback is that you'll be
evaluating on the camera's LCD, which is small and will
require zooming to be useful. Unfortunately, Nikon didn't
make things as easy as it could have been by combining
Live View with AF fine tune.
Finally, we get to the actual steps you need to take. I'll
assume that you've already got the lens you want to calibrate
on the camera and your test target already set up at a proper
distance.
1. Press the MENU button to show the menu system.
2. Use the Direction pad to navigate to the SETUP menu
(yellow wrench icon).
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Tripod mode uses contrast-based focusing, which is not what you want to adjust.
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