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$5 Telephoto I Found On KEH

Started Jun 3, 2019 | Discussions thread
jeffharris
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Re: $5 Telephoto I Found On KEH
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Mel in LA wrote:

magnesus3 wrote:

Not sure how it is called on Panasonic but on Olympus there is Magnify which is way, way more accurate way to focus (magnifies the focus point) than peaking. I often miss focus with peaking, never with magnify.

For an old manual focus lens that had a reputation for being sharp I tried focus peaking when I first came to Olympus. I set the lens aside for being way too soft, thinking it may be a bad sample. I wasn't satisfied with focus peaking and later switched to magnify. With magnify I got better results overall. Recently I tried that old, "soft" lens again using magnify to focus. OMG! I got window screen to snap into focus from 20 feet away, and ingredient lists on food packages to spring into view,

I originally counted on focus peaking to work like the old split-image and focusing collar, fast and accurate aids to get what's interesting in focus. It didn't work out that way and I've since dedicated a button to turn magnify on and to put life back into my old lenses. This also works well when manually focusing MFT lenses (macro, telephoto, extension tubes, etc.).

Focus peaking had great promise, at least the M4/3-Panasonic, but every time I've tried to rely on it I've been disappointed. Supposedly Sony's peaking is MUCH better.

Magnified view is fantastic. It's so much easier to focus than the old SLR split screen.

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