Holding the E-PL6

Guy Parsons wrote:

Reply delayed while I drive the grandkids back to their home and I return to my home.....

Drive safely, Guy!

alexisgreat wrote:

I was using the touch AF lcd (yes, it's working better now!) and I had some questions about it. When I touch a specific part of the LCD a little green square appears for AF there and a scale at the right that is set to 10x and has other settings of 5x and 14x. Is this the magnification scale for enlarging the AF point?

Yes, slide it with your finger up or down.

Also, I used the cursor keys on the rear wheel to move around the touch AF point and I counted a total of 41 movements horizontally and 23 vertically. Are there really this many focus points in touch AF mode?

No idea, I use the touch screen to slide the touch focus point, it can be slid to just about anywhere, except the very edges. I don't think that there are set positions, it just slides to where I slide it so there could be lots of possible positions.

I thought the camera only had 35 AF points?

That's the regular AF scheme accessed via the shutter button, the touch screen AF is a different, independent scheme.

Also sometimes when I press the cursor keys on the wheel I get the regular big squares (35 AF points) to show up and sometimes I get these smaller squares (41x23) to show up- how do I get the camera to decide which ones to use?

At turn on it is the shutter button system, where the green box(es) only appear during the time that the AF is in operation. The touch screen system is different, the green box stays where you slide it and the shutter button can use it.

Is there some way for me to get the camera to default at start up with the smaller squares (the 41x23 grid)?

I never use any multi spot AF as I often don't like where the camera decides to focus, I use a central small point only with the shutter button, or if touch screen I use the 14x touch box.

If you want the small LCD "permanently" on little boxes the press Magnify, or touch LCD of course after turn on. To get back, hold Magnify.

Thanks Guy! At 14x are the green squares even smaller? I'm not sure I want the touch points on all the time because when they are on I can no longer use the arrow keys around the wheel as function keys.

Also can I get the squares to be even smaller and get even more than 41x23?

To change the focus spot for regular shutter button AF, use the left button, then the info button and cycle through the possibilities. It should stay there. If not set up a MySet and use it. My MySets are assigned to the Mode dial so at turn on or twist to that dial spot the MySet is called and my settings are there to use.

The LCD touch boxes have 14x as the smallest and as I said there are lots of possibilities as you can slide the box almost anywhere. Even smaller maybe would be a problem and not give enough image to find decent contrast edges. It needs a vertical contrast edge to work nicely.

Thanks, I think 10x is the default? So at 14x there would be even more than 41x23? That's an outlandish number of focus points- I've never heard of any camera that had 600+ focus points!  Too bad we cant get the metering spot to become this small (or can we?) as this could be very useful for spot metering.....

The other question I currently had is how many Custom WB settings can be saved?

Ummmm, don't know, I never use that. Only auto WB for me and use the raw file anyway and adjust that as I like if the "as shot" was not what I wanted. Use the SCP and select WB and check how many, the E-P5 I have next to me has WB1, WB2 and CWB, so maybe that's 3 but I never ever use them.

Regards....... Guy

AWB has come a long way, a few years ago almost everyone did custom WB and carried grey cards.