is this a manual lens?...if yes, i wonder how you find focusing these manual lenses with adapter?...I'm considering buying an em5 and wonder how it would be to use my older nikon manual focus lenses and adapter...
what lets you know your image is in focus with the manual lenses?...i think i've read the em5 doesn't have anything like 'peaking'...on my d700 I have a green dot which shows focus...also, the screen is bright enough that i can pretty much just use my eye to focus unless it's a really dark scene...
thanks jono...enjoying your work here...
HI There - Thank You!
What I've found is that longer focal length lenses are really easy - half pressing the shutter engages the Image Stabilisation, which makes it very easy to see what is, and what is not in focus - you don't need to do stop down metering because the camera gains up the EVF properly.
There isn't any focus peaking, However there is a kind of high contrast 'sheen' that you can see on in focus areas (apart from the fact that it's easy to see if they're sharp). Not so simple on the LCD, but fine through the EVF.
No peaking or green dot but.....manually focusing the lens is easy with a magnified view which can be accessed by setting one of the function buttons to provide that.
Hi Les
I think that the magnifier option is only okay on a tripod, not handheld - because you can't see the whole view, and when you zooom out again the focus will have changed - on the other hand I really don't think that it (or the green dot) are really necessary - it's pretty easy to see what's in focus anyway.
I've had a higher hit rate using the Leica 60 elmarit macro than with any other camera/lens combination (for taking macros handheld) - it's easy to see when it's in focus, and there is so little shutter lag (or shake).