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E-M5 and 60mm Macro: How to manally focus?

Started Mar 22, 2014 | Discussions thread
uRebel Rob Senior Member • Posts: 1,537
Re: E-M5 and 60mm Macro: How to manally focus?
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Oli4D wrote:

Hello everybody

I own a OM-D E-M5 and the 60mm 2.8 macro lens....

How do I use the ring to manual focus, especially when the lens is set to 1:1?

Thanks a lot

Oliver

Most of this has been mentioned, but with that lens, macro photography is easy:

  • Put camera in manual focus
  • rotate the four position focus range dial (to the left of the magnification gauge) to the 1:1 postion, wait for it to go to 1:1 (it's quick, though), let go (it will go back to to the "0.19-0.4m" position. (if it magnifies, wait a little, or half press the shutter button to make the biew return to normal)
  • move camera until what you want in focus is in focus.

If you use the focus ring when in 1:1 mode, you can only focus in one direction: less than 1:1. If you look at the lens, focusing on something 0.2m instead of 0.19m, you get a 1:1.3 not quite macro instead of true 1:1 of 0.19m with this lens.

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