Effectively....
On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:41 PM, IanG wrote:
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> It's a whole new world of photography - try focusing on this with a
> hand
> held OM4 :-)
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> www.iang.co.uk/fly.jpg
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of alfredo pagliano
> Sent: 24 August 2005 19:36
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Scott's totally subjective 'new E-1' report [windy]
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> Ah, ho!
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> sounds interesting, how could I live without it?
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> ;-)
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> Alfredo
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> On Aug 24, 2005, at 8:21 PM, IanG wrote:
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>>
>> Fast moving subjects... Lock focus with your selected point (1% of
>> frame
>> area) and the camera tracks within the whole 45 point array.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf
>> Of alfredo pagliano
>> Sent: 24 August 2005 18:22
>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [OM] Re: Scott's totally subjective 'new E-1' report [windy]
>>
>>
>> I agree completely
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>> Simpy cannot understand al those AF points on modern DSLRs.
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>> Someone uses them though...
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>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:
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>>> Scott,
>>>
>>> The autofocus setting was the first thing I changed on my E-1. In
>>> fact, I had made up my mind to do so before I even got my hands on
>>> the
>>> camera. Before I bought, I downloaded the manual from the Oly
>>> website, and upon reading "Normally, the camera measures the distance
>>> to the subject using the 3 AF frames in the viewfinder and selects
>>> the
>>> most appropriate point," my immediate response was, "Bulls**t! I'm
>>> in
>>> charge here and I'll be the one deciding what's the most appropriate
>>> point."
>>>
>>> So, before I took even the first shot, I set the autofocus to the
>>> center frame only, and that's where it's going to stay. And this is
>>> even more fitting now that I've changed to the Katz Eye screen, which
>>> doesn't have all those little rectangles, just a split prism with a
>>> microprism collar, a lot like what I see in the viewfinder of an OM.
>>>
>>> And, of course, being in control at all times requires that
>>> simultaneous AF and MF modes be set so the human in charge has the
>>> authority to occasionally fine tune the auto focus, whether it needs
>>> it or not, as a reminder to the little man in the camera about who's
>>> really the boss of this outfit. You don't want him getting too
>>> uppity. :-)
>>>
>>> Walt
>>>
>>> --
>>> "Anything more than 500 yards from
>>> the car just isn't photogenic." --
>>> Edward Weston
>>>
>>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: "Scott Gomez" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>> First, the autofocus is making me nuts. It's not at all clear to me
>>>> how
>>>> one tells just what the hell it's focusing *on*. From the manual, it
>>>> appears that there are three "focus zones" outlined in the
>>>> viewfinder,
>>>> any one of which is selected by the E-1 as the focusing point.
>>>> There's a
>>>> little viewfinder doohickey that even shows you which of the three
>>>> targets was used (I've updated to firmware version 1.4; I believe
>>>> that
>>>> the feature was added in firmware ver. 1.3). However, depending on
>>>> the
>>>> scene being photographed, the zone encompassed by any one of the
>>>> focus-outlines can be a target-rich environment. Just how does one
>>>> know
>>>> where the actual focus is, with any reliability? What are the
>>>> pitfalls
>>>> of forcing the camera to use only one focusing zone (as it appears
>>>> is
>>>> possible to accomplish through settings)? Having *never* extensively
>>>> used a camera having autofocus, I'm finding this quite frustrating.
>>>
>>> [snip]
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