I am interested in the lensalign product but have read a review stating the instructions are being redone. I also learned for a$100.00 buck a year you can have Canon calibrate all your lenses and clean your camera through CPS.
I guess if the price was a bit lower I would buy one of them.
Which review was that? And, is there a web site where Canon specifies prices for these services?
No doubt Nikon offers such a service as well, so let me think about it a bit....I can send my camera body and all of my lenses back to Nikon, at some fairly high cost for both shipping and insurance -- don't forget the insurance, not to mention the time involved in ensuring that you've done a VERY good job indeed with your packing -- and then wait for however long it might be for the equipment to be returned.
Add the cost of the above to the fee for having this sort of thing done. What's the total? (Not to mention: not having your equipment during the time it's in the shop or in transit.)
As opposed to: buy a lens alignment product or DIY -- whatever. Make the adjustments yourself via the focus-adjustment tools available in the camera. If memory serves, the manufacturers included those controls for a reason. As far as I can recall, the reason was: doing the focus adjustment yourself.
So which solution costs you more? I don't know the answer in precise dollars and cents. Which enables you to have your equipment at hand during the time you're doing the adjustments? The answer to that question is obvious enough.
Send the equipment away, 0. Do it yourself, 1. YMMV.
(And b.t.w., there's no guarantee that the company will always do the job correctly. There are stories of botched camera/lens adjustments, after which people had to send their equipment back to the service center for a further correction. If this were to happen, what would be the additional cost?)