here we come, 6d AF problems

[adamsnapper]

My 6D is a donkey...don't get me wrong the image quality, WHEN it focuses properly, is sublime. I too mostly use the centre focus spot. I shoot ceremonies for my local council with the Mayor and participants. The hit rate was less than 20%, so much so that I now resort to manual focus for these.

I also take ID/Passport type images at theses ceremonies, I focus on the right eye, the focus beeps to confirm lock, hold and recompose and when you check the images, a huge percentage are soft, some by quite a margin.

Don't hold and recompose and then expect the shot to be in focus, if you are at f/8 or far away, its ok, but up close at f/4 or wider, the depth of field is shallow, and the error due to a poor technique is going to cause oof images.

Don't blame the camera.

Shooting a reasonably close-up head shot and focusing on one eye and moving the camera back just to slightly recentralise the image...the fact that the camera is bleeping to tell me that it has locked focus even with a very slight, and it is an absolutely minute, recompose, that eye/face at F8 should be sharp. Some are tack sharp and yet the second shot taken within 2 seconds is off, and sometimes it's way off. I've been a pro shooter for nearly 30 years and it's certainly not my 'poor' technique, I have NEVER had a canon camera that misbehaved/ mis-focused this much across so many differing shooting conditions, indoors and out, long shots and close shots and across so many of my lenses all of which are 2.8L glass except that F4 24-105.