darekstudio Loc: Minnesota

Hello everyone🙂, short question if 10 mm lens
It was calibrate for sharpness, do I have to repeat calibration again with 85mm or medium telephoto lens to 70-200mm ? Camera : Nikon d500 .

rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX

Fine tuning of auto focus must be done for each lens/camera combination.

darekstudio Loc: Minnesota

Thank you very good idea 😉

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Nikon recommends against DIY lens fine tuning as a permanent solution. Better to ensure that both the camera and lens(es) are up to factory spec. Then you won't have a problem. I've got 15 lenses, that I have used on a half dozen bodies - none have required fine tuning. I did have two bodies that were out of whack and once their focus issues were addressed, no more problems. AF tuning affects focus at every distance and focal length by the same amount. It is not unheard of for a lens to focus correct at one distance and/or focal length and be off at infinity or the closest focus distance. This could be a body or a lens issue, or a combination. Only a factory trained tech can adequately address this.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

YES

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

Did you do the calibration? If you did make sure your other lenses are working like they should.
Most AF issues are operator's fault. Wide angles have such a wide DOF that calibrating them I would say requires for better results a factory calibration. To me a wide angle in need of calibration is very rare.
I cannot recall a lens that I used that required calibration and I have been using lenses for more than 50 years.
If I ever notice that any of my lenses need calibration I will not hesitate a second sending them to the manufacturer.

darekstudio Loc: Minnesota

Thank you I appreciate all your advices 😉

pmackd Loc: Alameda CA

I have done AF fine tuning on a number of my Nikon telephoto lenses, with three different model Nikon bodies. I found that the only lens that required a correction was the inexpensive AF-P DX 70-300mm VR. And about the same correction on my D7100 and D500, indicating that the issue was probably with the lens. Your D500 has AUTO AF Fine tuning. It's fun and easy to do. I found that it agrees well with manual AF fine tuning. Find out how to do it online (it's not in the manual) and get the corrections for all of your lenses on your D500. If a large correction is called for you might want to have a permanent fix done by a professional. Or just test at a variety of focal distances and see if the correction is the same.