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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.

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Screen shots of the E-5's LCD,
courtesy of my C-5060 in macro mode.

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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.

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Focus point "just" left of blue shirt.
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EXIF info from Apple Viewer: "AFInfo: 0.484375, 0.4804688, 0.03125, 0.0390625, F"
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This one was in focus, then a  split second later, the focus was off.
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No focus point indicated. Shots just before and after were in focus... and calculated as 1 to 2 metres farther away.
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No focus point indicated.
No focus distance in EXIF.

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No focus point indicated.
Focus distance 14.17 metres (notice some of the rain in focus.)

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Focus point "just" over left red shoulder.
"AFInfo: 0.484375, 0.4804688, 0.03125, 0.0390625, F"

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No focus point indicated. Focus distance 32.1 metres... though nothing seems to be in focus in the background.
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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.

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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.
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