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Quote: I've just come back from a great session shooting some wild sailboard action and playing with the CAF mode.
I owe an apology to Mr Olympus for having made rude comments about CAF, under the right conditions its works superbly!
So what did you do differently, Brian? Or was it just specific conditions in which CAF works well?
Here's a pic of my OMD with some lenses I've used for night shots:
with the Panasonic 14-45mm: (13 sec | f/8.0 | 45.0 mm | ISO 200)
http://www.magezinepublishing.com/equipment/images/equipment/OMD-EM5-3968/highre...
with the Zuiko 50mm f/1.4 (15 sec | f/8.0 | 50.0 mm | ISO 200)
http://www.magezinepublishing.com/equipment/images/equipment/OMD-EM5-3968/highre...
with the Zuiko 135mm f/3.5 (3.2 sec | f/5.6 | 135.0 mm | ISO 200)
http://www.magezinepublishing.com/equipment/images/equipment/OMD-EM5-3968/highre...
Be interested to see other people's night shots 
Quote: I've just come back from a great session shooting some wild sailboard action and playing with the CAF mode.
I owe an apology to Mr Olympus for having made rude comments about CAF, under the right conditions its works superbly!
So what did you do differently, Brian? Or was it just specific conditions in which CAF works well?
I think first and foremost it was the conditions, then the fact that I was trying it on subjects that were filling a larger proportion of the frame and finally, maybe I was able to give the system longer to lock on as I know this subject well and was able to predict, then track the action as it began.
Roger, all single point, full sized focus
I've just finished going through over a thousand shots and its fascinating to see how the consistency of focus improves from the moment I switched from SAF+M mode to CAF. I could nail single shots in SAF but trying to follow the action at 4fps always resulted in some lost focus whereas with CAF less than 10% were lost in action. (mind you, if I didn't get good lock to start with, they were all OOF! 
)
To say I'm delighted is an understatement (even if I am knackered with both the windy shooting conditions and the mammoth processing blitz 
)
Quote: Here's a pic of my OMD with some lenses I've used for night shots:
Quote: Be interested to see other people's night shots
Thanks Josh
Though it would more than likely get a better response being posted here, under its own thread.
http://www.ephotozine.com/groups/evil-csc-m4-3-users-and-meets-764
Joshwa, here's an example of a night shot from a coach using the 12-50 kit lens
M25 on a dark, wet night
Quote: Just had a look at the ones you've posted on here, and also on your own site, Brian. Wow........... I wish I had a camera that could do that!
Great pics - but your own skill and experience must play a part.
As you know CB - I've got a "Great Camera" and that makes all the difference (and the more I use it the better it gets! 
)
Quote: Here's a pic of my OMD with some lenses I've used for night shots:
Joshwa, have you had a chance to compare the image quality of the 50 1.4 against the new 45 ? (My son's got one I might be able to persuade him to part with, but I'm not sure if it's worth buying the adaptor).
Roger, I haven't tried legacy lenses on the OM-D, but I did use many of them on the PM1, and where they haven't been designed to correct problems inherent in digital photography, CA becomes a big problem. I found that even cheap M4/3 lenses outperformed originally expensive film lenses. It isn't that the optics are not top quality, they're designed for a different system, and it shows. That's not to say that it isn't loads of fun to use those old lenses and see what interesting results you get.
Denny
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