What camera do I buy? / general gear talk

Yeah, I'd like to upgrade at some point. The 600D doesn't have microfocus adjust either though.

In general only models with one (and sometimes two) digits have user accessible AFMA. The 50D and 70D have it but the 60D and the 40D and older models do not. (Exceptions: The 1D Mark II and 1Ds Mark II did not have it, but all 1-series bodies released since those two include it. The original 5D did not include the feature, but subsequent 5-series bodies have it.) None of the xx0D/Rebel and xx00D/Rebel series bodies include the feature.

Sounds like a 70d might be a good option - anyone got some experience with one in here? There's some on eBay for <£200. Can't afford that now but maybe in a few months.

In the meantime I have discovered that I never really knew how the Live View mode worked and that there's an option in the settings to have it focus based on the image from the sensor rather than whatever AF system it uses normally. So that should be completely unaffected by the issue and achieve focus as well as me on MF with 10x zoom. The downside is that it's slow as balls - it's going to take me at minimum a few seconds for each picture. That's fine for now as I pretty much never take any picture of anything that moves...

See attached - it focused okay. Different lens but you get the idea.