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E-5 Sports Focus

E-5 and 50-200 SWD. Straight from camera JPGs.

Focus issues detected, especially when using sequential shooting. Many times, the red focus confirm square was not present on review. (See screens shots of the E-5's LCD in colour histogram review.)

It was raining and ISO 1000+, to get 1/800th to 1/1000th shutter speeds at F2.8-3.5. Certainly lots of light for playing the game... but maybe not enough for shooting it in focus.

Center focus spot was used. Release priority was OFF, so a shot should not have fired if focus was not achieved.

Yes: sometimes, focus was achieved in the wrong place, due to not aiming the center of the camera in the right place.

I will try diamond pattern next time, to see if it improves. It would be nice to also have the same light, though.

Album by Barry Stewart. Photos by Barry Stewart. 1 - 35 of 35 Total. 187 Visits.

P5070827 Screen shots of the E-5's LCD, courtesy of my C-5060 in macro mode.	P5070828 What I'd like is for my camera to help me out and think: "Hmm... I'll bet he wants to capture that moving target and not the sign post." I'll try diamond pattern next time and see how that goes.	P5063327 Focus point "just" left of blue shirt.	P5063328 EXIF info from Apple Viewer: "AFInfo: 0.484375, 0.4804688, 0.03125, 0.0390625, F"
P5070829	P5063340 This one was in focus, then a split second later, the focus was off.	P5070830	P5063341 No focus point indicated. Shots just before and after were in focus... and calculated as 1 to 2 metres farther away.
P5063358 No focus point indicated. No focus distance in EXIF.	P5070831	P5063362 No focus point indicated. Focus distance 14.17 metres (notice some of the rain in focus.)	P5070832
P5063367 Focus point "just" over left red shoulder. "AFInfo: 0.484375, 0.4804688, 0.03125, 0.0390625, F"	P5070833	P5063369 No focus point indicated. Focus distance 32.1 metres... though nothing seems to be in focus in the background.	P5070835
P5063393 AFInfo: 0.484375, 0.4804688, 0.03125, 0.0390625, F Focus Distance: 89.13500000000001 m, which is ridiculous. At the very most, the grass at the center of the frame was 40 metres away — and the focus point would have been in the 20-30 metre range.	P5063352 Nice sequence, but the first two have no focus point indicated (though the first is in-focus.) The second shot is the best pose... but the focus is long by about 5 metres, based on the next shot.	P5063353	P5063354
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