question about an old e-p5 I just bought

It all seems to work fine. But. While shooting, sometimes the lcd switches to what is a 10x mode (this is marked in the lower left hand corner in red), an image blown up appears, very grainy, seems like it is trying to focus peak? And there are four arrows to the sides and top and bottom in red. It lasts a few moments, then the lcd goes back to normal.

I've been going through the manual. I can't find what it is. Maybe the owner before me set something up that I can't find.

It happens just while scanning around looking for a next shot. I don't press any buttons or move any dials. Seems automatic.

Can someone please tell me what this is? Does the camera just scan this way? Is there a way to turn it off. It isn't helping me with anything.

I think the image stabilization comes on too. I hear that whirring sound.

ok. thanks for help.

m

ps on this new to me body...It's heavier than I thought it would be. It feels solid and good. All the buttons and dials work as advertised. Been playing with a few fixed focal length lenses. Very nice image quality. At first it seemed slow, but I set up all the options to suit what I like, and updated firmware to 1.8 and it seems much better. Maybe I'm just getting used to it?

Possibly caused by your mf assist settings (Cog menue A). You can set up focus peaking and magnify to automatically engage when you focus manually. Could be that you accidently touch the focus ring of the lens and activate the mf assist function.

yonsito wrote:

Possibly caused by your mf assist settings (Cog menue A). You can set up focus peaking and magnify to automatically engage when you focus manually. Could be that you accidently touch the focus ring of the lens and activate the mf assist function.

My thoughts too. Although uncertain why this pops up as OP says he don't push any buttons and doesn't mention using MF.

Don't know the menu, but as this is a used model might be a good idea to reset to factory settings and setup to your own taste.

moinmiami wrote:

It all seems to work fine. But. While shooting, sometimes the lcd switches to what is a 10x mode (this is marked in the lower left hand corner in red), an image blown up appears, very grainy, seems like it is trying to focus peak? And there are four arrows to the sides and top and bottom in red. It lasts a few moments, then the lcd goes back to normal.

I've been going through the manual. I can't find what it is. Maybe the owner before me set something up that I can't find.

It happens just while scanning around looking for a next shot. I don't press any buttons or move any dials. Seems automatic.

Can someone please tell me what this is? Does the camera just scan this way? Is there a way to turn it off. It isn't helping me with anything.

I think the image stabilization comes on too. I hear that whirring sound.

ok. thanks for help.

m

ps on this new to me body...It's heavier than I thought it would be. It feels solid and good. All the buttons and dials work as advertised. Been playing with a few fixed focal length lenses. Very nice image quality. At first it seemed slow, but I set up all the options to suit what I like, and updated firmware to 1.8 and it seems much better. Maybe I'm just getting used to it?

Set AF to AF S only, you have set to AF S + Manual focus probably.

moinmiami wrote:

yonsito wrote:

Possibly caused by your mf assist settings (Cog menue A). You can set up focus peaking and magnify to automatically engage when you focus manually. Could be that you accidently touch the focus ring of the lens and activate the mf assist function.

This seems to have worked. Thanks yonsito. My af setting was s-af + mf. Changed to only s-af. I tried twice and couldn't duplicate the problem. I will give it another go tomorrow.

Like i wrote. Didn't hit any buttons or dials. Just turning the camera on it sometimes happened. Or after a shot, scanning subjects, bam, it went into that mode and popped back out on its own.

Happens to me quite often when I hold the camera and somehow touch the focus ring on the lens itself. Common occurence with some of the smaller bodies and lenses. Enjoy your camera!

yonsito wrote:

Happens to me quite often when I hold the camera and somehow touch the focus ring on the lens itself. Common occurence with some of the smaller bodies and lenses. Enjoy your camera!

Yep, touching the focus ring of the lens is all that is needed to magnify the image. I sometimes do this by accident, but as long as it is quick and intuitive to exit the mode, this is not an issue. On Panasonics, exiting the magnification happens by half-pressing the shutter release button. On most modern cameras, it's the same button one presses to exit menus or playback and start shooting pictures, making it very intuitive.

On older Olympus-cameras (IIRC, E-PM1, E-P1), a separate button had to be pressed to exit magnification, making it quite clumsy to use. I believe Olympus has significantly improved the usability of their cameras since, perhaps this is not an issue with E-P5?