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Subject: [OM] Focusing (Re: First OM-E-1 photos 135/2.8)
From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:50:34 -0500
There is only a ground-glass, all matte focusing area, no focusing aide is 
available, as it's primarily an AF camera.  The screen snaps into focus pretty 
nicely though.

Skip


>
>Subject: [OM] Re: First OM-E-1 photos 135/2.8
>   From: "Dado dela Cruz" <dado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:44:57 +0800
>     To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>Hi Skip,
>I'm not very familiar with the E-1. Unlike the conventional SLR where you
>are guided by the focusing aids like the "split image". In the case of this
>digital camera, did you merely look at the LCD screen while focusing your
>135 lens. Is there an aid to focusing manually for digital SLR like the E-1?
>Thanks,
>Dado
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Skip Williams" <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:34 PM
>Subject: [OM] Re: First OM-E-1 photos 135/2.8
>
>
>>
>> And all those pictures were right out of the camera with auto-WB, no
>processing, sharpening, etc.
>>
>> Skip
>>
>> >
>> >Subject: [OM] Re: First OM-E-1 photos 135/2.8
>> >   From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >   Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:00:13 -0700
>> >     To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> >
>> >They look great. Nice natural looking color too.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Winsor
>> >Long Beach, California
>> >USA
>> >On Apr 18, 2004, at 10:28 PM, Skip Williams wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Well, I got back from FL on Friday and my OM Four-thirds adapter was
>> >> here in it's little white box.  Today was the first time I got to try
>> >> it out.
>> >>
>> >> These are the best of about 120 soccer pictures of my 3rd grader's
>> >> game today.
>> >>
>> >> All shot with a 135/2.8 SC Zuiko at either f/5.6 or f/4.  ISO mostly
>> >> 400, one at 200.
>> >>
>> >> Focusing was pretty easy, as the screens snaps nicely.  I didn't shoot
>> >> any wide open.  In general, I was pretty pleased, but the percentage
>> >> of keepers would have been much greater with an AF lens.  I only got
>> >> about 40 keepers out of 121.
>> >>
>> >
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