10D Backfocusing?

[steve817]

I have heard of this and was wondering why some of my shots arent coming out as sharp as I thought they should. Look at the pic of the macaws below.

My cameras focusing point was actually on the bird that was closest to the camera, right over his face. My other settings were as follows

File Name
IMG_1798.JPG
Camera Model Name
Canon EOS 10D
Shooting Date/Time
3/29/2005 12:40:09 PM
Shooting Mode
Manual
Tv( Shutter Speed )
1/2500
Av( Aperture Value )
4.0
Metering Mode
Evaluative
ISO Speed
800 ( Don't laugh about this one it was the first shot I took and didn't realize the ISO setting)
Lens
70.0 - 200.0 mm
Focal Length
109.0 mm
Image Size
3072x2048
Image Quality
Fine
Flash
Off
White Balance
Auto
AF Mode
One-Shot AF
Parameters
Contrast Normal
Sharpness Normal
Color saturation Normal
Color tone Normal
Color Space
Adobe RGB
File Size
2470KB
File Number
117-1798
Custom Function
C.Fn:01-0
C.Fn:02-0
C.Fn:03-0
C.Fn:04-0
C.Fn:05-0
C.Fn:06-1
C.Fn:07-0
C.Fn:08-5
C.Fn:09-0
C.Fn:10-0
C.Fn:11-0
C.Fn:12-0
C.Fn:13-0
C.Fn:14-0
C.Fn:15-0
C.Fn:16-0
C.Fn:17-0
Drive Mode
Continuous shooting

What am I doing wrong??????

 

[tempra]

When you use the autofocus, check which square lights up as to where the focus is, if it isn't what you want, then release and try again, otherwise, manual focus is better, as you can choose the focus point.

 

[Digital Matt]

10Ds are famous for having focus problems.

 

[photogoddess]

10D's are known for this and there is tons of information on the web about it. Here's a link. http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/201411
Feel free to search for more. This is a well talked about issue.

Did you isolate the focus to one area or were you using all of the AF points. I had better luck with mine after switching the camera to only focus at one point.

 

[steve817]

In this case the point was manually selected. It's really inconsistent. The one I took of the komodo dragon on another post was with the center point.