Pen F users - some quick questions...

Raist3d wrote:

MEDISN wrote:

But contradicts what this user is actually showing frame-by-frame. Why are you so concerned with what some reviewer said? Does the reviewer shoot with your hands or do you?

Oh, I am only bringing reviewers as an objective "not someone over the net" source.

I do BIFs with the Pen-F in C-AF mode (examples here https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/62619969 ) .

After I realized that I need to set the camera to focus priority and that C-AF only works in sequential burst L mode (on all Olympus cameras), C-AF simply works. If I have an out of focus shot it's because I did not point the camera in the right direction.

In fact C-AF is working so well that I was puzzled why the Pen-Fs C-AF is said to be sub par. There is no technical reason why the Pen F should be noticeably better or worse than any other Olympus body with the same generation imaging engine and cdaf sensor. Comparing the Pen-Fs C-AF with my daughters EM10 Mark II, I see no difference.

Here is the CameraStoreTV review which started the "Pen-F CAF sucks" rumor:

Pre-production Pen-F with a Oly 300mm f4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqmMrp-pVp4

Follow up with a production Pen-F where they say the Pen-F did a good job in "zone focussing" C-AF mode and the "lock on" C-AF mode with tracking gave the most reliable hit rate. They had problems with the pen-f in C-AF mode with single button presses hunting on a subject which was not or only slowly moving (quite obviously with Rls Priority S set ON, meaning taking an out of focus shot was possible):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdPhwpmo5O8

So as far as I can tell, the reviewers did not set up the camera properly and there's nothing wrong with the Pen-Fs C-AF. Olympus may need to think about improving their manual though.