Macx: E-M5 has with legacy glass is the in-body image stabilisation

Macx wrote:

For me, one of the major advantages my E-M5 has with legacy glass is the in-body image stabilisation (IBIS). It works, and it works well, even if you have to manually dial in the focal length. It lacks focus peaking, so I rely on a magnified view to nail focus, but the way I have set up the camera, this is just a button press away and since the magnified view is set up to be stabilised it works well enough for me.

Hi Macx, I remember your excellent and meaningful comments about equivalence, and I am so happy that you replied to my question. I started a different thread specific to this subject: manual focusing mechanical MF lenses on Olympus 5-axis IBIS cameras (E-M1, E-M5, PEN P5). I used focus-peaking with great effect on my Sony A7 (now owned by the daughter). It works more-or-less OK on my current Fujifilm X-A1. The X-A1 has no EVF and its LCD's refresh rate is terribly slow with or without focus-peaking. I've learned some comments on this forum that the focus-peaking on both the E-M1 and P5 are not really excellent ( http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/54229148 ). Most reviewer are very disappointed. Focus peaking does not even available in movie mode. The P5 reviewer wrote that the refresh rate of the LCD gets unusably slow when focus peaking was enabled.

(1) Can you use magnified view during video recording on these IBIS cameras?

I've learned that in the initial version the E-M5 didn't support image stabilization for non native lenses, but a later firmware update made this possible.

(2) Do you think Olympus is going to implement better focus peaking in forthcoming firmware updates for its IBIS cameras including peaking during video recording?

After I saw Jeff Harris f0.95 Voigtlander lens collection, I was wondering what focusing techniques Olympus IBIS camera owners use with them especially on video?

Steve Huff loves his Voigtlander lenses on Olympus.

From www.bestmirrorlesscamerareviews.com An Unlikely Trio: The Olympus Pen E-P5 meets the Nokton 50mm f/1.1 & Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5

Take care and thank You,

Miki