Adapter, 4/3 to m4/3!

Don't read too much into anything 43Rumors posts as news. It's mostly speculation based on inconclusive ramblings.

This weekend while on the Central California Coast shooting birds with the E-5, 50-200 and EC-14 I discovered a wonderful prefocus mechanism that's already built into every Olympus lens. There's a ring at the front of every lens that prefocuses quite accurately.

I used the focus another way though. Putting the camera into manual focus and setting the mode to autofocus using the AEL/AFL button allowed me to get AF close and then fine tune the focus on the bird's eye using the focus ring. It also worked well for following BIF once I got focus close. Otherwise I found the lens would occasionally hunt for focus if/when I missed setting the target exactly on the bird.

Birding is something I'm new to and don't get many opportunities for here in So Cal. So this past weekend I was perfecting my techniques. I wouldn't think of using any m4/3 with this lens set-up. CDAF is too slow. Micro 4/3 bodies are too small and the single button control access just isn't there.

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Dave
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