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Not terribly impressed with the PENs

Started Mar 24, 2016 | Discussions thread
baxters Veteran Member • Posts: 5,319
Re: Not terribly impressed with the PENs

MinAZ wrote:

in a recent shoot, for instance (backlit portraits with a cherry tree in full bloom in the background - a somewhat tough) the PL6 with the 17mm f/2.8 lens missed AF in 70-90% of the shots. This was despite using touch to focus, eye detection set on nearest eye, and verifying that either the green box or white box (face detect) is on the faces. The camera quite often simply focused on the cherry blossoms instead of the faces.

Try a smaller focus box and see if it helps. I use an EPL5 and EM5, both with the smaller box, and touch screen to set the placement of the box. Works fine for me.

Even  the pancake 20mm, which can hunt til it gives up in a low contrast and dark scene, will quickly focus when I use the touch focus to tell it where to look.

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm F1.8 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 17mm F1.8
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