I think useless is a bit harsh, at teh end of teh day if you have a lens that when on single point focus aimed at the eye of a portait and misses focus and you can't do nothing about it then thats useless, at least with the limited AF tune function you can 'correct' some back focusing issues.
Some Nikon stuff... gerrys photo journey
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No amount of processing will fix bad composition - trust me i have tried.