I have the D7000 and the 70-300 lens you have, and had the same problem you are talking about. I ended up having to use the AF fine tune for this lens set to -10. It did take some testing with shots of a yardstick, and working my way down, but it has brought the focus and sharpness to where I am happy with it now. You may get different results as far as settings.
AF fine tune is in your camera Menu>Set up menu>AF Fine tune. I had the yardstick about 3 feet away from me, camera on tripod. MT Shooter may be able to help you with this and explain better than I am here.
belwj wrote:
I have a post in the Photo Gallery section (the heading is "I guess I raised a few hackles today"), where I mentioned that I am struggling with the picture quality, particularly the sharpness, with my D7000 and a AF-S Zoom-Nikor 70 -300 f/4.5-5.6 G IF-ED lens. I was surprised to get a couple of responses from others that are having the same problem with the same lens. The pictures are not terrible, but I jut can not get the same sharpness of some of the others on this forum. On some of the most striking pics to me the users are using a 400 or 500 mm lens, and maybe a 1.4 or 2x converter. I realize that I have allot to learn about the camera, and about photography in general, but I just wanted to see if there is anyone here that has great success using my camera and lens, or if i am aspiring to a level of sharpness that the glass can not achieve.
Thanks - Will
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