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EM1 continous AF and tracking

Started Nov 3, 2015 | Discussions thread
Paul Amyes Senior Member • Posts: 1,907
Re: EM1 continous AF and tracking

SkiHound wrote:

You should have been using High burst. With m43 lenses I believe the system only uses the PDAF focusing system in H sequential.

I tried both and even contacted Olympus for advice. They are actually very coy about saying when the camera switches over from contrast based to phase detection AF. So coy that they would not give a straight answer just "depends" and I got no answer to "Depends upon what exactly?". I don't wish to slag them off as the EM1 is a nice product but I wish they weren't so obtuse on the AF issue. If they wish more professionals to use the system then they should say straight up how it is implemented. Sony took a lot of grief over the AF in the A7R and quite rightly so it was absolutely appalling, but they have redressed a lot of the issues with the mk ii and the 399 point phase detection system is pretty impressive. It would be nice if Olympus could implement something similar that just works straight out of the box. I won't switch to Sony as I don't want another camera system (4 is enough already, and in case anyone asks Canon EOS, Olympus m4/3, Pentax 645 and an large format kit). I had planed to give away the full frame Canon and the large format and just use the 645 and m4/3, but for now the Canon kit keeps its place for action stuff.

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