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I’m satisfied with the speed but the AF area needs to be smaller. As it is now, the background affects the focusing way too easily. Autofocusing on a bird, for instance, is almost impossible when there are trees or other detail in the background.
I was already. I focus one time and i keep photographing as lang the distance doesn’t change (oldfashion way).
As far i tried now, The speed is faster but no significant.
While I am very happy with the auto focus speed, I am not happy with the new ‘feature’ of switching to the LCD screen for menu items or reviews when the E-P2 electronic viewfinder is used. One of the minor reasons I bought the E-P2 over the E-P1 in the first place was so that I could use the EVF for review and menu setting, and not have to switch from the electronic viewfinder to the LCD like you have to do for a DSLR. I had this in my Olympus C-2100UZ, Olympus C-8080WZ, Canon S1, Olympus SP-550UZ cameras, and it is very convenient in bright light.
Here is the fourthirdsphoto article I started on the subject.
http://forum.fourthirdsphoto.com/showthread.php?t=56815
I also agree about the AF area needing to be smaller. I’m not sure if it is bigger than it was before, but after doing the upgrade, I was focusing on several things in the house, and couldn’t get a focus lock once or twice. However, I didn’t try it on the same object before doing the update.
I haven’t upgraded yet, since my only USB cable that fits the EP-1 is at work! WTF, Olympus?
Jón: the USB cable was provided with the camera. I don’t think it’s a standard one.
Agent00soul: fully agree, I just shot thousands of photos on holiday and when shooting someone against a strongly lit background, my EPL1 made the edge of the subject’s head sharp but not their facial features (I was using a 20/1.7). Quite annoying, but good thing there’s manual focus override 🙂
Does anyone obtain the results of E-PL1 as tested by dpreview? It seems that it is quite an attractive point if E-PL1 can focus faster than G1 with lenses from Panasonic.
Am I blind or are they testing version 1.1 !!! at dpreview? 1.4 should be even better.
Anybody tried e-p2 n Panny 20mm combination? both with new 1.1 software,focusing a bit faster, continuous focusing in video mode improved. The only problem is the lens making more nand louder noice both in photo and video shooting.Any idea why?
at, the funny thing is they didn’t include the G1 + Panasonic lens. Maybe not to spoil the Oly firmware party… who knows.
Really faster. 20mm doesn’t go through whole plane to get focus. Real improvement on ep1 I see.
I agree about the efv to lcd switching – make it an option!
I prefer the old way.
um, it is an option…