The second images does look misfocused. I would say it could also be motion/shake blurred, but you indicated the image was at 1/500 s which should eliminate subject motion (for a person) and even at 200mm should take care of any camera shake, too (especially on a FF body). Which focus point did you select - and did you focus then recompose?


Quote Originally Posted by matrixman45054
As soon as I got the camera, I calibrated it with the AF Micro-Adjustment. I did it about as well as my resources allowed; I had the camera on a tripod about 15ft from a paper with crisp text on it....shot using my laptop as the wired release via EOS utility...narrowest aperature possible..IS off. I have done this 3 different times. Each time, my results are slightly different, but all fairly similar.

When you did the AF Microadjustment, were you able to obtain sharp images of your test target with the 5DII +70-200 2.8 IS? How much adjustment was required?