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Panasonic body, Olympus 4/3 lenses best options? G85 any good?

Started Mar 3, 2018 | Discussions thread
drj3 Forum Pro • Posts: 12,632
Re: Well

Holistic Photog wrote:

Gooutside wrote:

Well just got back from the store and had a chance to try the 11-22 and 50mm macro on a G85 and it performs about the same as my G6..so not much point in upgrading to that camera (AF speed wise). That said it sure is a lovely handling camera. Can certainly see why people here like it so much.

Might just have to grab a em-1 for those times I need better than glacial af speed.

The E-M1's PDAF will work better with PDAF only lenses. I'm not so sure it will work as well with CDAF capable FT lenses. The G85 is a better focusing camera than the E-M1 with native MFT lenses, so it might work better with CDAF FT lenses.

Just a thought. I can't say for certain.

All the FTs lenses were designed to focus on the Olympus DSLR's using PDAF.  Some of those lenses (depending on design and focusing motor) with firmware updates also perform acceptably with CDAF focusing.

The FTs 70-300 (one of the CDAF optimized lenses) works far better on the E-M1.1 &r E-M1.2 with PDAF than on the CDAF focusing E-M10.

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