Yes there is an back focus problem on some D200's. I had my camera for 4 months and was extremely frustated with the soft focus. I tried everything. My professional photographer at work kept saying it was just me. I finally had him shoot flatwork with my D200 in studio, tripod mounted controlled flash and then shoot his D2x with the same setup. Night and Day difference. I had already had my D200 in to the Nikon repair which they made some "adjustments and cleaned the CCD". This time I took them the 18-200 Nikon lens and the body and my photographers images and they then came back and said the Body was back focusing and that the lens at 200 was front focusing. They made the best adjustments that they could but I can still get sharper images from my old Nikon or my Olympus. I have tried the +sharpening in camera and other in cammera adjustments but at the end of the day I am taking an ok image and making it good in raw editting instead of improving a good or great image. But in answer to the main question Nikon repair did confirm it had a back focus problem and was with a factory Nikon lens.
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