Help with wide angle lens with out of focus photos

[donoreo]

About time you got it back. Take some photos of something in bright light like the newspaper idea from before. In the daytime with lights on in the house should be enough. Taking scenic photos will not help anyone to see if it is sharp or not.

Did they say what was "fixed" on it?

[SunderlandPhotography]

This is what it said on the delivery note I received with it

Work carried out -
Adjust Optic
Reset, Check & Test

Adjusted 4th group lens unit


I don't see the point of photographing a newspaper because the print isn't actually 'in focus' I mean the the lettering seems 'blurry'. My father doesn't seem the point of it either. I need straight lines to be able to see what the focusing is like.

[SunderlandPhotography]

I wish I'd never bought this stupid lens from hong kong. The focusing absolutely stinks.

Once there is a bright day, I'll be taking some landscape shots then I need to find someone who knows what they're talking about. And try and sort the lens out.

[Cathus]

You could give the lens to someone who actually knows how to use one and they'll tell you if it's likely to be faulty or not, since you don't trust anyone who has tried to help you so far.

The lens doesn't know the difference between a mountain, a tree or a newspaper, focusing is focusing. It is far easier to see what is in focus if you actually bothered listening to people and trying what they said.

If it can't focus on a newspaper it's hardly likely to focus on Ben Nevis.

I guess there are several people who wish they'd never bothered to help you for all the thanks they got.

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by SunderlandPhotography

I don't see the point of photographing a newspaper because the print isn't actually 'in focus' I mean the the lettering seems 'blurry'. My father doesn't seem the point of it either. I need straight lines to be able to see what the focusing is like.

Find one that is or use a magazine page then, something that we know is absolute. We are looking for a binary, works or does not. The best is something in black and white.

Taking a landscape scene is absolutely useless for testing.

At this point, listen to Chathus' advice, give it to someone else to test.

[SunderlandPhotography]

Here is a comparison between before and after.

I set the camera on SPOT. Making sure the centre dot was on the black between the black and the white of the top of the freezer.

Flickr

[StephenBatey]

I'm not at all sure that we're all talking the same language. I admit that I don't know your camera, but the different settings that you've mentioned in the course of this thread all suggest exposure, not focus, to me.

Additionally, if you think that you need a straight line to check focus, you don't mean the same thing by the word as I do. Or I'm missing something along the line (no pun intended). The fact that neither you nor your father could see any need to focus on a sheet of newspaper certainly makes me think that we don't all understand each other.

I've looked at the flickr photos. They weren't large enough for me to form a judgement, and the most important details were missing. What was the shutter speed, and did you use a tripod?

[jet_kit]

I gave up trying to help you some time ago when you refused to take our advice, or worse, just ignored it.
I see that nothing has changed. You continue to whine about this lens and do nothing to let us help you.
I suggest you go back through this posting. Do what we have all said you should do and post the results up here. Then, and only then, we might be able to come to some sort of conclusion. If you're not prepared to do that, then just continue to be unhappy and let us get on with helping people who want to be helped.

[markgozz]

I hope nobody minds if I ask a question to try and get some sense of usefulness from this thread .

Looking at the photos of the kitchen appliances ( which are to small to get a definitive answer from ) the manually focused shot dose look sharper than the auto focused ones so this would mean that the lens is capable of taking sharp images but the camera itself can't auto focus properly or am I missing something in my naivety .

Mark

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by markgozz

I hope nobody minds if I ask a question to try and get some sense of usefulness from this thread .

Looking at the photos of the kitchen appliances ( which are to small to get a definitive answer from ) the manually focused shot dose look sharper than the auto focused ones so this would mean that the lens is capable of taking sharp images but the camera itself can't auto focus properly or am I missing something in my naivety .

Mark

It might. Apparently his other lens(es) look fine, it is only this one. As you say, those photos are too small.