johnnynapalm wrote:
Curious if anyone here moved from a Canon setup into the MkII. I had the E-M1 and traded it out for a 6D and some decent lenses, but wow am I missing the light weight and EVF!
I was very disappointed with the original E-M1's C-AF abilities compared to even the 6D in Servo mode. I could almost never get the results I wanted with moving targets on the E-M1, but it sounds like the MarkII has gone a long way in improving C-AF.
I'm looking at the MarkII with a 40-150 f2.8 to replace my 6D and 70-200 f4 but not sure I will still be happy with C-AF when shooting my kid playing soccer, etc......Show more →
I moved in stages from canon 7Dmk2 + 5Dmk2 + a box of L lenses to the EM-5 and it was a slow and painful journey with much to learn (and forget - the EM series are not like DSLRs in the way you need to use them in my experience)
By the time I got to the EM-1 + 100-400 and 40-150 pro I found that the canon kit never got used but I wanted to hang on to a couple of my L lenses so got the metabones adapter (which worked well on the EM-1)
When the 1 mk2 came out the remaining bits of canon kit got sold and I added the 12-100 and whilst I don't shoot kids or football I shoot a lot of water sport and motorcycle race action in addition to airshows, BIF and small buzzy things in flight and don't miss my canon kit at all (in fact I reckon I can do things with the mk2 that I was never able to do with the 7Dmk2 or 5Dmk2)
ELinder wrote:
I'm really disappointed. I would have thought that by now they'd update the firmware and iOS app so that we can use high res mode hands free.
Erich
Maybe the iOS app doesn't work the same as the android version, but if you set the WiFi connection to Remote instead of LiveView then you can use the phone/tablet as a remote shutter release for hires mode.
johnnynapalm wrote:
Curious if anyone here moved from a Canon setup into the MkII. I had the E-M1 and traded it out for a 6D and some decent lenses, but wow am I missing the light weight and EVF!
I was very disappointed with the original E-M1's C-AF abilities compared to even the 6D in Servo mode. I could almost never get the results I wanted with moving targets on the E-M1, but it sounds like the MarkII has gone a long way in improving C-AF.
I'm looking at the MarkII with a 40-150 f2.8 to replace my 6D and 70-200 f4 but not sure I will still be happy with C-AF when shooting my kid playing soccer, etc......Show more →
I find the C-AF performance of the original E-M1 is a bit exaggerated online. It's not terrible, if you have good light, little to no acceleration, and plenty of time for initial focus acquisition it does a fine job, but otherwise it's not reliable. Similarly the AI-Servo on the 6D gets more flak than it deserves, although while the center point is decent the outer points really are pretty poor. I was running a Canon kit with a 1DX and the E-M1 side by side for a while and ended up with just the E-M1 (and now E-M1 + E-M1ii). For me it wasn't that the E-M1 did anything better than the Olympus, it's just that my needs changed so that I wasn't shooting the stuff that demanded the AF performance of the 1DX any longer and the lighter weight (or moreso that it takes up less space in a pack) became a boon. The E-M1ii AF still isn't as good as the 1DX, but it's reached the point where I would say it's good enough for most of what I do. I'd love to see a 40-150 Pro MarkII that didn't have the crummy bokeh issues of the current version though; that's probably my biggest gripe with the system and it applies to the 12-40 and 300 Pro lenses as well.
whumber wrote:
Maybe the iOS app doesn't work the same as the android version, but if you set the WiFi connection to Remote instead of LiveView then you can use the phone/tablet as a remote shutter release for hires mode.
Yes, you can use it as a remote release, but as soon as you switch app modes to try to change any setting via the app, the camera switches to normal mode and there is no way of putting it back into high res mode via the app. Hence, no high res focus or exposure bracketing or other changes without touching the camera, which is the whole point of using a remote app in the first place.
