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

Started Mar 3, 2018 | Discussions thread
dougjgreen1 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,068
Re: Panasonic body, Olympus 4/3 lenses best options? G85 any good?

Ulfric M Douglas wrote:

dougjgreen1 wrote:

Unfortunately, None of the Panasonic bodies work well with the 4/3 lenses that don't support CDAF focusing. However all of them work OK with the limited set of 4/3 lenses which DO support CDAF focusing:

My 4/3rds lens with adapters focus fine on all my m4/3rds bodies, Panasonic included, except some limitations with the original G1,

therefore I say your post is overly pessimistic, however there is always the probability that my fine is your awful.

I am always pleasantly surprised with the focus speed and accuracy of my 9-18mm and my 14-54MkI

Well, the 9-18 is CDAF enabled, so it should and does work fine - and the 14-54 mki is not as bad as most.   For examples of PDAF lenses that focus awfully on any non-EM1, try the 11-22 on any subject matter, or the first gen 50-200 on moving subject matter.

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