--- product_id: 17085274 title: "Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2)" brand: "dslrkit" price: "€ 11.50" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Dslrkit" url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/17085274-lens-focus-calibration-tool-alignment-ruler-folding-card-pack-2 store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Precise 19x12.3cm calibration scale Supports Nikon, Canon & Sony AF fine-tuning Pack of 2 for dual-lens calibration Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2) **Brand:** dslrkit **Price:** € 11.50 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > 🎯 Nail your focus every time β€” because sharp shots don’t wait! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2) by dslrkit - **How much does it cost?** € 11.50 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/17085274-lens-focus-calibration-tool-alignment-ruler-folding-card-pack-2) ## Best For - dslrkit enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted dslrkit brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Dual-Pack Value:** Two calibration cards includedβ€”perfect for multiple lenses or sharing with your photography crew. - β€’ **Compact & Portable:** Foldable, pocket-sized design fits effortlessly into your camera bag for on-the-go tuning. - β€’ **Universal Compatibility:** Works seamlessly with Nikon AF Fine Tune, Canon AF Micro Adjustment, and Sony autofocus calibration systems. - β€’ **DIY Pro-Level Calibration:** Empowers you to fine-tune autofocus without expensive service fees or bulky equipment. - β€’ **Pinpoint Autofocus Accuracy:** Calibrate your lens to perfection with a clear, easy-to-read ruler designed for shallow depth-of-field precision. ## Overview The DSLRKIT Lens Focus Calibration Tool is a compact, foldable ruler (19x12.3cm) designed to help photographers precisely test and adjust autofocus accuracy on Nikon, Canon, and Sony cameras. Ideal for lenses with shallow depth-of-field, it enables users to identify front- or back-focusing issues and fine-tune autofocus settings via camera-specific micro-adjustment features. Sold as a pack of two, this essential accessory offers professional-grade calibration at an unbeatable value, empowering millennial pros to capture razor-sharp images with confidence. ## Description Instruction This compact ruler allows you to determine if your lens is auto-focusing accurately as it should. It is an essential tool that is particularly useful when shooting with a shallow depth of field, where focusing should ideally be "spot on". You can use this ruler to determine how "off" the focusing is for a particular camera / lens combination and, on supported cameras, adjust the camera's auto-focus settings to resolve this. On Nikon cameras, this feature is known as "AF Fine Tune". On Canon and Sony cameras, it's known as "AF Micro Adjustment". Please refer to your camera's instructions manual to see if this feature is present. Size:19*12.3cm Package Included: Lens Focus Calibration Card X2 Usage 1. Set up the ruler. 2. Ensure both the camera and ruler are level, exactly perpendicular and at the same height. It is best to mount the camera on a tripod to do this. 3. Set the lens to the widest aperture to obtain the shallowest depth of field. This will make it easier to determine if your lens is focusing accurately. Auto-focus on the QR-Code at the center of the ruler, then take a photo. 4. Inspect the photo to see if focusing is accurate. It is recommended that you do this on a computer since you will be able to see better on a bigger screen. If focusing is accurate, the '0' on the ruler should be the sharpest point on the image and the other numbers get blurrier as you move away from the 0. 5. If any number above the 0 is clearer, then your lens is backfocusing. Otherwise, if any number below the 0 is clearer, then your lens is front focusing. In either case, you would have to set the auto-focus micro-adjustment parameters on your camera body until you are able to obtain a picture that is sharpest at the '0' on the ruler. Review: Works great... - ...and a great value, but note: first be sure your camera allows microadjustments to calibrate autofocus, because not all inexpensive or older camera bodies do. Look in your manual or search online to see if your camera offers this feature. Normally you can do this, if possible, at the MENU button and in Canon camera bodies that allow it, in a Custom Function submenu for Autofocus. If your camera can't adjust calibration, you can still use this to test, but you'd have to send equipment in for repair to get any problem corrected, and don't be surprised if the mfr. tests your gear and sends it right back unadjusted, saying it's within tolerance limits (happened to me). With adjustable gear that works properly, you can dial it right in, at least at your tested setting. Also even if your camera body allows adjusting the calibration of autofocus, if you just have inexpensive f/4+ kit lenses, you may not get much benefit from calibrating, whatever tool you use, because the depth-of-field on those lenses is usually close enough for autofocus jazz. These tools are most helpful for calibrating lenses that will be shooting wide open at f/2.8 or wider (smaller f/ number) which work with a very narrow depth-of-field, making autofocus often seem to just miss. You will get NO benefit in calibration accuracy buying a more expensive calibration tool than this one. All these tools just show you whether your lens is back- or front-focusing or dialed in. If it's off, you guesstimate a correction and try again, until it's right. (No tool can tell you exactly what correction is right. It's trial and error.) It's your *setup,* not the cost of a calibration tool, that is key to good results. There is at this writing a competing product that costs over 13 times as much as this one on desertcart, and this one will perform just as well as that one. Yikes. You can even build a free one with materials around your house instead that will work just as well, but at this price, it was easier for me to just get this. You do need to learn how to use the tool. This one doesn't come with instructions, it's not intuitive, and if you try to wing it, some gotchas will probably getcha. Other reviews here go into the how-to, and there are a number of good free videos on YouTube demonstrating this product and others that helped me a lot. Just be aware, calibration tools are not plug'n'play; setup is critical, as I said; there are about a dozen guidelines to follow. But once you have it figured out, it goes pretty quickly, taking maybe ten minutes to calibrate a lens' autofocus. No calibration tool can fix photographer technique that is not optimal. Look for some YouTube videos on autofocusing to make sure you're doing it right. One important thing I learned watching one: my old-school technique of holding the shutter release halfway down to prefocus and then recomposing is a poor technique to use with a large-aperture lens wide open, because when you recompose, you change the focal plane just enough to frequently throw your "locked-in" subject out-of-focus. You're better off using Live View, or manually focusing, or at least dialing in one autofocus point on the subject and not recomposing after prefocusing through the viewfinder... or even better, try to avoid shooting wide open (but sometimes you need the extra light). Review: Works great and good price - Works great and good price. You could do as well with a sheet of newspaper and some sort of focus target (a playing card propped up facing straight towards your camera lens, for example) placed in the middle of it. But this is more convenient. Similar products (those with just a slanted scale and a focus target) that cost a lot more (some are a lot more) are kind of a rip-off. Some of the expensive alternatives include software, but I don't see where software would save any work or provide more accurate results unless maybe your computer monitor is too pathetic to show better detail than the tiny screen on the back of your camera. You need to view the focus test photos you take on the larger screen of your computer, and you already have software that does that, right? No instructions included which is OK. You are really better off doing some research online to learn and understand how to do "AF Fine Tune" (that's Nikon speak. Canon, Sony, etc. each use a different name for the same thing). Just following some instruction list without understanding would be frustrating and error prone. It's really a pretty simple process after you understand it. Basically, you let your camera auto-focus on the little vertical card in the middle of the tool, and your test photo will show where on the slanted scale is in-focus or blurry and hopefully the in-focus part is right next to the little vertical card. If not, then adjust AF Fine Tune in the camera & take another shot. I was at first concerned this tool might be too small, but it's really just the right size to show where your camera is actually focused. You don't do this procedure at 50 yards range (that would require huge targets). ## Features - This compact ruler allows you to determine if your lens is auto-focusing accurately as it should. It is an essential tool that is particularly useful when shooting with a shallow depth of field, where focusing should ideally be "spot on". - You can use this ruler to determine how "off" the focusing is for a particular camera / lens combination and, on supported cameras, adjust the camera's auto-focus settings to resolve this - On Nikon cameras, this feature is known as "AF Fine Tune". On Canon and Sony cameras, it's known as "AF Micro Adjustment". Please refer to your camera's instructions manual to see if this feature is present. - Size:19*12.3cm - Package Included: Lens Focus Calibration Card X 2 ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B012F8G1DO | | Brand | DSLRKIT | | Camera Lens | 4 | | Camera Lens Description | 4 | | Color | Black, White | | Compatible Camera Models | [Nikon, Canon, Sony] | | Compatible Camera Mount | Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E | | Compatible Mountings | Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 2,957 Reviews | | Exposure Control Type | Automatic | | Focal Length Description | 35 millimeters | | Focus Type | Auto Focus | | Image stabilization | No image stabilization | | Item Weight | 0.01 Ounces | | Lens | Standard | | Lens Design | Prime | | Lens Fixed Focal Length | 190 Millimeters | | Lens Mount | Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E | | Lens Type | Standard | | Manufacturer | DSLRKIT | | Manufacturer Part Number | LFCT2 | | Maximum Aperture | 5.6 Millimeters | | Media Type | PhysicalProduct | | Minimum Aperture | 93 Millimeters | | Minimum Focal Length | 190 Millimeters | | Model Name | LFCT2 | | Model Number | LFCT2 | | Screen Size | 19 Centimeters | | UPC | 745227400324 | | Unit Count | 2 Count | | Viewfinder Type | LCD screen | | Water Resistance Level | Water Repellent | ## Product Details - **Brand:** DSLRKIT - **Camera Lens Description:** 4 - **Compatible Mountings:** Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E - **Focal Length Description:** 35 millimeters - **Lens Type:** Standard ## Images ![Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/813gxKL2P6L.jpg) ![Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71BQkdklDyL.jpg) ![Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71MkcAeltPL.jpg) ![Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2) - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/718l67U9+mL.jpg) ![Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2) - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81imL5XqfpL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works great... *by H***R on October 17, 2018* ...and a great value, but note: first be sure your camera allows microadjustments to calibrate autofocus, because not all inexpensive or older camera bodies do. Look in your manual or search online to see if your camera offers this feature. Normally you can do this, if possible, at the MENU button and in Canon camera bodies that allow it, in a Custom Function submenu for Autofocus. If your camera can't adjust calibration, you can still use this to test, but you'd have to send equipment in for repair to get any problem corrected, and don't be surprised if the mfr. tests your gear and sends it right back unadjusted, saying it's within tolerance limits (happened to me). With adjustable gear that works properly, you can dial it right in, at least at your tested setting. Also even if your camera body allows adjusting the calibration of autofocus, if you just have inexpensive f/4+ kit lenses, you may not get much benefit from calibrating, whatever tool you use, because the depth-of-field on those lenses is usually close enough for autofocus jazz. These tools are most helpful for calibrating lenses that will be shooting wide open at f/2.8 or wider (smaller f/ number) which work with a very narrow depth-of-field, making autofocus often seem to just miss. You will get NO benefit in calibration accuracy buying a more expensive calibration tool than this one. All these tools just show you whether your lens is back- or front-focusing or dialed in. If it's off, you guesstimate a correction and try again, until it's right. (No tool can tell you exactly what correction is right. It's trial and error.) It's your *setup,* not the cost of a calibration tool, that is key to good results. There is at this writing a competing product that costs over 13 times as much as this one on amazon, and this one will perform just as well as that one. Yikes. You can even build a free one with materials around your house instead that will work just as well, but at this price, it was easier for me to just get this. You do need to learn how to use the tool. This one doesn't come with instructions, it's not intuitive, and if you try to wing it, some gotchas will probably getcha. Other reviews here go into the how-to, and there are a number of good free videos on YouTube demonstrating this product and others that helped me a lot. Just be aware, calibration tools are not plug'n'play; setup is critical, as I said; there are about a dozen guidelines to follow. But once you have it figured out, it goes pretty quickly, taking maybe ten minutes to calibrate a lens' autofocus. No calibration tool can fix photographer technique that is not optimal. Look for some YouTube videos on autofocusing to make sure you're doing it right. One important thing I learned watching one: my old-school technique of holding the shutter release halfway down to prefocus and then recomposing is a poor technique to use with a large-aperture lens wide open, because when you recompose, you change the focal plane just enough to frequently throw your "locked-in" subject out-of-focus. You're better off using Live View, or manually focusing, or at least dialing in one autofocus point on the subject and not recomposing after prefocusing through the viewfinder... or even better, try to avoid shooting wide open (but sometimes you need the extra light). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works great and good price *by A***R on May 12, 2017* Works great and good price. You could do as well with a sheet of newspaper and some sort of focus target (a playing card propped up facing straight towards your camera lens, for example) placed in the middle of it. But this is more convenient. Similar products (those with just a slanted scale and a focus target) that cost a lot more (some are a lot more) are kind of a rip-off. Some of the expensive alternatives include software, but I don't see where software would save any work or provide more accurate results unless maybe your computer monitor is too pathetic to show better detail than the tiny screen on the back of your camera. You need to view the focus test photos you take on the larger screen of your computer, and you already have software that does that, right? No instructions included which is OK. You are really better off doing some research online to learn and understand how to do "AF Fine Tune" (that's Nikon speak. Canon, Sony, etc. each use a different name for the same thing). Just following some instruction list without understanding would be frustrating and error prone. It's really a pretty simple process after you understand it. Basically, you let your camera auto-focus on the little vertical card in the middle of the tool, and your test photo will show where on the slanted scale is in-focus or blurry and hopefully the in-focus part is right next to the little vertical card. If not, then adjust AF Fine Tune in the camera & take another shot. I was at first concerned this tool might be too small, but it's really just the right size to show where your camera is actually focused. You don't do this procedure at 50 yards range (that would require huge targets). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cheap but functional and all round good value *by W***E on August 21, 2016* The most importance thing is that it works. I was able to calibrate some of my portrait lenses and prove that calibration correct empirically, in subsequent photo shoots. I was also able to confirm some front-focus issues with a teleconverter I have, which I'd previously tried to prove without a purpose-built calibration target, but couldn't get nearly as unambiguous (and damning) results as with this target. I haven't compared it with other (and much more expensive) focus calibration tools. It is just cardboard, and not particularly stiff cardboard at that, so it does bulge and flex and requires a bit of coercion to set up such that the centre target is actually perfectly vertical. More expensive targets are made of stiffer cardboard, or plastic, and will surely be much quicker to set up and use confidently as a result. It also doesn't have any of the alignment aids that some of the competing calibration targets have, which puts the onus on the user to give proper care to alignment. Presumably this limits its precision somewhat, though I found it was at least as precise as the random focus error in various Nikon lenses & camera bodies, so I deem it sufficient whether or not it's ideal. One other limitation to note - and this is true of the majority of these sorts of focus targets - is that it doesn't suite all focal lengths or focus distances. It's not a particular big target, and seems intended for roughly 'mid-range' focal lengths - perhaps 35 - 100 in 35mm terms. e.g. for telephoto lenses, your working distance is perhaps going to be tens of metres, and even with the long focal lengths (and consequent 'magnification') this target is too small at those distances - e.g. with a 300mm on a DX sensor (1.5x crop) it doesn't really work beyond about six or seven metres. Since lenses can have different amounts (and directions) of systematic focus error at different focus distances, this can be limiting. Likewise it's useless for macro lenses at their nominal working distances (<1m), or for wide angle lenses. ## Frequently Bought Together - DSLRKIT Lens Focus Calibration Tool Alignment Ruler Folding Card(Pack of 2) - DGK Color Tools High Resolution 8.5x11" Chrome SD Professional Lens Test Chart, 3-Pack - DGK Color Tools Digital Kolor Pro 16:9 Large Color Calibration and Video Chip Chart, 2-Pack --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/17085274-lens-focus-calibration-tool-alignment-ruler-folding-card-pack-2](https://www.desertcart.be/products/17085274-lens-focus-calibration-tool-alignment-ruler-folding-card-pack-2) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-05-25*