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Using Olympus 60mm macro lens on EP-1

Started Jul 21, 2015 | Questions thread
pannumon Veteran Member • Posts: 4,130
Re: Not a good choice

I once bought the E-P1 because of IBIS for manual focus lenses, but I quickly sold it because MF on that camera is so annoying.

hindesite wrote:

Not really wanting to go into detail here, but to initiate magnify mode manually you have to be in one particular view mode (the E-P1 doesn't combine modes as newer cameras do) and again, the shutter release doesn't exit magnify mode.

Yes, you need to press a button to exit the magnification on E-P1. Another thing is that the LCD is very low resolution, which makes MF impossible without the magnification. On the other hand the AF of E-P1 is much slower than any other µ4/3 camera. It's a shame.

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