Am I suffering from backfocus?

[bibamus]

Since I bought my Nikon D80 and 18-200VR lens, I always thought it was suffering from soft images.
I took this photo today as a test shot after a few others I took seemed out of focus. I was focusing on the flower head in the centre, though the leaves behind seem to be in focus, not the flower head. Click on the pics to see other sizes.

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This one was taken at home, I focused on the but of green leaf, however the raspberries at the back are in focus.




These shots were taken raw and converted to jpg in Photoshop. No other processing. Any comments?

Allan

[allymac123]

I might well be wrong but I don't think the reults show a back focusing lens. The problem is that you are relying on the focus dot in the viewfinder to be in exactly the same place as the one the sensor is using. This is not always the case.

Surely (i could be wrong on this) taking a picture of say a newspaper on a wall parallel with the camera's sensor would show you if the lens was focusing incorrectly as the whole thing would be out of focus?

[vulkan75]

I have the same camera and lens and noticed something similar the images are nearly always soft. The lens isnt the sharpest but its strange that the area your focusing on is thrown out.
I think backfocusing is a camera problem though(not100%).Have you tried other lenses.I guess it'll show up as a fault on all lenses.

[jonnypb]

Use this to test