Canon 40D Focusing Problems
By Dan on Oct 15, 2007 in Digital SLR Photography, Photo News, Reviews
Just a heads up for anyone looking to buy a Canon 40D. I purchased a 40D last week, took it home, slapped on a lens and couldn’t get it to focus. It didn’t matter if I used autofocus or did it manually - something wasn’t calibrated correctly (I think). Even though the image looked sharp through the lens, the photos themselves were uniformly blurry.
I called Canon for assistance and they told me to send the camera in for repairs, complete with a letter documenting the problem and printed samples that illustrated the focusing error. I just got an e-mail saying the 40D would be repaired and that I could expect to receive it in 5-7 business days.
A quick search of some other websites showed that a couple of other people are having this problem, too. If you’re in the market for a 40D, be sure to put it through its paces carefully and look for any potential problems. It’s a bit frustrating that Canon launches have been so buggy recently…
Jeff O'Hara | Oct 15, 2007 | Reply
The fact that they wouldn’t just replace it outright with it only being a week old is very upsetting. Good thing i’m a nikon user
LOL
alexey | Nov 7, 2007 | Reply
Dan,you are right. I had exactly the same issue, it was good that guys at Aden Camera in Toronto did replace the body. It was off the focus. The new one is just fine. Strange though that the first body I got was from the new shipment already, so it seems like Canon does have a quality control issue big time.
For everybody reading that, I suggest taking a shots with a couple of lenses and zoom it on LCD. If the camera is not calibrated you will have a blured image, and its gonna be more than low res of the screen, you will just feel like it does not look good.
steve | Nov 27, 2007 | Reply
what ever happened to your situation, I have a 40D that misses focus by 20 feet and they said is in lens, so I sent it in with lens, 40D is a little better but now lens on different body is out of focus 20 feet the other way????