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LOL! You have my permission ... ;-)can we please bring it back to live view?
It takes me longer to accurately focus a lens stopped-down with live-view than it does to focus with the rangefinder and "build-in" the compensation. Basically, the same technique used for the DOF marks on the Leica M3 and M2- but you need to just remember the offset rather than it being marked.
Focusing a stopped-down lens using live-view for me is about the same as focusing a lens on an SLR stopped-down. Faster for me to focus wide-open, then stop-down.
I am sure Live-view will improve, my "latest" is the EP2 with the VF-2. It's great for IR work, I had the IR absorbing glass removed on one of my EP2's. But once things are stopped down to F8 or so, the finder gets noisy. You can still focus, but I find it distracting.
What i would really like to see for live-view: A "magnified zoom-box" for the image. Rather than the 7x or 10x magnified image covering the whole finder, just pan a zoom-box over the portion of the image that you select to focus. That way you could focus and frame simultaneously. Like being able to move the RF spot anywhere in the finder, focus and frame at the same time. On the EP2, or any other Liveview camera, it would be easy to implement in firmware, but i do not know of any camera that shows a magnified sub-image overlaid on the full-view frame.
Jono,Hi Brian
the Sony NEX shows a magnified sub-image overlaid over the full frame view. I think the Leica X1 does the same . . . but IMHO this, just like the Olympus system, is really difficult to use in moving situations (fine on a tripod).
Have you had a go with focus peaking?
It's a gamechanger in my opinion.
However . . . . . . . . I still find rangefinder focusing (with an M9) to be
more accurate
more satisfying
faster
but then I've practiced that technique more.
Hi TomIt would be great to have a camera which does both (and I assume the M10 might offer both rangefinder and lifeview), but if I had to decide between the two it would be a rangefinder for my taste- at least for a certain range of focal length.
. . . if you've been trying with the "zoom in" focus on the Pen I quite agree . . with focus peaking it would be no problem - really, although whether it's as good an experience as taking advantage of 40 years experience (or 6 in my case) is a moot point!"Subject moved during exposure"...
I'm sure with a lot of practice, I could do this on a Liveview camera. But it took me 40 years to be able to do this... Another 40 years???