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Pen-F C-AF and 75-300mm II...

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acfo Senior Member • Posts: 1,500
Pen-F C-AF and 75-300mm II...
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...work.

Red kite

Don't bother pixel peeping, it's heavily cropped.

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OP acfo Senior Member • Posts: 1,500
Re: Pen-F C-AF and 75-300mm II...
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... work quite well.

Storks

This was the first weekend with lots of light. What a difference it makes.

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JPTHEOG Senior Member • Posts: 2,628
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acfo wrote:

... work quite well.

Storks

This was the first weekend with lots of light. What a difference it makes.

Interesting, I am going to be trying this like my kids soccer. We'll see how this works out

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OP acfo Senior Member • Posts: 1,500
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Agius FOTO wrote:

acfo wrote:

... work quite well.

Storks

This was the first weekend with lots of light. What a difference it makes.

Interesting, I am going to be trying this like my kids soccer. We'll see how this works out

This is actually the first time I used C-AF as I was put off by the TheCameraStoreTV review and the general opinion voiced in this forum that the Pen-F C-AF was useless.

I used the settings recommended somewhere here in the forum: C-AF, picture mode vivid (supposedly heightens the contrast for AF to work better - haven't confirmed this yet), silent sequential mode L and small focus point.

Good luck!

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fft2000 Contributing Member • Posts: 987
Re: Pen-F C-AF and 75-300mm II...

And now go out and try it again. And again. And you will realize that you can get occasionally a sharp shot. But a working AF-C should give you a decent amount of sharp pictures at every burst you fire. Good luck with that...

Actually I don't think my G81 has a working AF-C.  Just some sharp pictures and the best shots are usually completely misfocused, and I played a lot with settings. Really frustrating. The OLY E-M1 (original) of my dad delivered way more sharp results, and that quite reliable. Lenses used on both cameras: PL 100-400 and OLY 75-300 II.

OP acfo Senior Member • Posts: 1,500
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fft2000 wrote:

And now go out and try it again. And again. And you will realize that you can get occasionally a sharp shot. But a working AF-C should give you a decent amount of sharp pictures at every burst you fire. Good luck with that...

Got a decent amount of sharp pictures however I've only had three hours on sunday to play with C-AF.

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