Not often. The reason for the 'on site' recommendation is that AFMA is distance-dependent. Many times, what works at 25-50x the focal length (recommended calibration distance) doesn't apply with very close subjects.
I calibrate each new lens on each body when I get it (and all lenses to a new body). I test them again every 6-9 months, but they're stable (unless you drop your camera - I did that to my 5DII, 3' to pavement, not a scratch the body worked perfectly, but all my AFMA values shifted ~10 units to the negative relative to the original values).





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