QUOTE(Andy214 @ Dec 20 2012, 09:49 AM)
I you standing exactly in the middle with the car facing you in the middle middle, if the car is parking sideways, even if you're shooting in the middle, the left and right headlamp will be in different focus plane. It will be more obvious when using large aperture and shooting up close because the DOF will be very shallow.
However, there is another problem whereby one side of the lens exhibit problem with the focusing, you can test this by shooting straight to a flat suface of picture; if you focus in the middle point, by right the entire picture should be in focus.
Pre-Focus is half-press shutter, it will focus and lock, you can do this with digital camera and some phone camera which comes with dedicated shutter key.
With small sensor camera, pre-focus to lock focus then shift your position of you subject, it may still look sharp or in focus because of the LARGE Depth Of Field. Google Depth Of Field (DOF) to see some examples.
For small sensor, if you pre-focus something very near, the you shift your position and try to shoot something far away, you will see it's blur. With big sensor like DSLR (and using large aperture), even small distance you will notice blur.
One more thing is, with digital camera or smartphone, the display is small, you may not notice the picture is not in focus, it may look acceptable viewing the picture small, when you transfer to a PC with huge monitor and set to high resolution, you may see the problem, especially if you view it in 100% zoom.
There's a lot of thing you haven't explore, do read up the manual of the type of focusing, there's also AF-C for AF-Continuous and AF-S for AF-Single, 3D Tracking, Auto, etc. It's all in the manual and some also come with pictures.
You can find tutorials online also if you need more clear understandings.
Yeah....I want explore the AF-A, AF-S, AF-C mode long time ago....Now holidaying....shall read on the manual....
"For small sensor, if you pre-focus something very near, the you shift your position and try to shoot something far away, you will see it's blur. With big sensor like DSLR (and using large aperture), even small distance you will notice blur."
That means it is normal to see blur after shifting right?
Added on December 20, 2012, 11:40 amQUOTE(celciuz @ Dec 20 2012, 07:18 AM)
Google cross type AF point, you will understand better. Basically a cross type will detect vertical and horizontal where else a non-cross type only detects either vertical or horizontal. Cross type is known to be more accurate and consistent when compared to non-cross type.
Yaya...briefly knows about it a bit now....

Any solutions? I can't always limited to the middle focusing point when taking photo right? Gonna miss out a lot good shooting angles....
Nikon D7000 have how many cross type AF point?
This post has been edited by Holyjolly: Dec 20 2012, 11:40 AM