The E-10's AF works quite well at tele end, but it has very high
failure rate for in-door shoot at the wide end, popular photography
also report the same.
C.H.Ling
Motor Sport Visions Photography wrote:
> The E-10/20 does indeed have "spot focusing" (along with spot metering).
> The AF is outstanding. Blows my IS-2 to bits. (no pun intended ;-)...)
> Seriously, in shooting panned shots at the track I was able to focus
> lock on asphalt instantly, pan, shoot, and do it all over again 'till
> the memory buffer filled up (which it only did when I was going at a
> feverish pace). Yes, like all AF cameras, you need to learn how to make
> it focus on the subject you want in focus, then continue to hold the
> shutter release half way while you recompose and shoot. The E-10 is so
> fast that despite not having "predictive AF" or "Continuous AF" ala a
> wunderbrik, I found it could find focus, lock, and fire _when *I* wanted
> it to_ while panning a fast moving car better than 500f the time.
> Amazing. Then again, I found that using the manual focus technique of
> prefocusing (but using AF to prefocus) was 100% reliable (hmm...same
> technique a Canon wunderbrik user friend still uses despite all the
> bells and whistles).
>
> How's your E-20 doing Tom???
>
> Olympus done good with the E-10/20.
>
> Mike Veglia
> Motor Sport Visions Photography
> http://www.motorsportvisions.com
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