LensAlign: A New Tool to Adjust Your Camera Focus

by Miserere


From RAWWorkflow.com (the guys who brought us the Instant JPEG from RAW utility), comes LensAlign™, a new tool to help you check the focus calibration of your camera/lens combo:



LensAlign is our new and exciting focus calibration system that allows you to determine if any of your body/lens combinations suffer from back or front focus. LensAlign is the only solution that allows fast, accurate, and repeatable results that confirm and/or calibrate the auto-focus of all of your lens/body combinations.

Note: LensAlign can test and displayback/front focus on almost all cameras. However,auto-focus calibration requires that the camera body has an AF micro-adjustment feature.

Released today, December 12, it's now available for preorder to the tune of $139.95. There is also a slightly simpler LensAlign Lite available for $79.95.

Or you could simply download Yvon's focus adjustment chart for free :-) It also comes in three different flavours, optimised for wide, normal and long lenses.

Auto Focusing problems with the K10D may be more of a perception that reality.

Hi Pentax friends,

Eversince I designed the Auto Focus chart and made it available free for downloading, I have received many favorable comments and thank you emails. I just wanted to post the following email received today from a reader named Charles G Clark.

"Yvon,

I posted a message on the Pentax Forum about focusing issues with my K10D. One of the responders sent the link to your website so I could download and test my auto focus. I did the tests last night.

I am surprised at the results. I tested my 16-45mm first. It focused correctly. I then tested my 50-200mm. It focused correctly. Finally, I tested my old tamron 70-300. It focused correctly.

I am left questioning why I thought I had a problem. I am afraid I had become one of the people listening to the woes of other Pentaxian posters.

Thanks to your test cards and a methodical testing approach, I have regained my confidence in my camera. It really feels good.

Chuck Clark"

You can download the charts yourself to the left of this post.

Thank you for reading,

Yvon Bourque

Email received from Chris Pound, Product Manager for Pentax Imaging USA.

Yvon,

I received word that my comments and quoting me won’t really be an issue. Feel free to quote me from the following…

I enjoyed using the chart, and found it easy and straightforward. I really liked that the chart itself folded up into an exact 45° angle, so I didn’t have to mount the chart in any special ways to achieve the proper p ositioning. If people follow the instructions you provide, they should be able to test and adjust their lens focus to their preference, saving those settings in the K20D.

Thanks for taking the time to create this handy tool.

~~~~~ PENTAX Imaging Company, Chris Pound, Product Manager - Imaging & Sport Optics ~~~~~

The chart can be downloaded from this blog from the link to the right of the posts.