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Calibration for EOS R6 Mark II / front focusing issue

EK25
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Hello everyone! I am very confused - and will be thankful for your patience! So I have been shooting with EOS R6 Mark II for over 1 year by now, and a couple of months ago started noticing unusual blur of human faces in my images - very often focus started falling in front of the actual AF point (e.g., AF on the eye, the actual focus - on the shoulder / a balloon the person is holding). I have been shootng with the same lens from the beginning - EF 50mm STM 1.8 lens with an adapter. So at first, I thought it might be the issue with the lens getting old(? since the problem appeared just recently) so I got a new EF 50mm 1.2 USM lens. Unfortunately, same problem persists. Someone recommended I should calibrate my lens (?), but I have just read that mirrorless cameras do not require calibration. I am really confused. Is calibrating a camera vs calibrating a lens a different thing? Or am I sort of always calibrating a "duo" (i.e. if I change something in my camera, does it mean that if I later get Rf lens it will have to be recalibrated again)? At this point what should my next steps be? Thank you so much in advance.      

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you are referring here to Rf 50mm 1.2 L USM, right? Yes, I tried it yesterday in store, it feels amazing and took amazing pictures. Just pretty expensive for me to cover just 1 focal length... 

Awesome! I hope that fixes your issues. It's a much faster lens in terms of focus & really one of the best priced lenses available from Canon. I've used mine for thousands of photos, & I have great success with it. Especially if you are using the AI focus.

It should eliminate all the variables from the equation. So if there's still an issue, you can send in the camera for tuning. Hopefully that won't be necessary. Let us know how it goes!

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