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My very early impressions of the the EM1 MKII were very encouraging particularly in the CAF department. Today was a very grey miserable looking day for photography. Having been impressed with the MKII with the 300mm pro lens I though I would give the Sigma 50-500mm a go not expecting much as normally days like today I would not think of using it with the EM1 (mk1) or the E5. I have to say it surpassed my expectations not only was it locking on to focusing it was pretty fast at doing it. Only a few times did I have the rattle of the lens focus mechanism and then it was for only about 2-3 cycles. I did have it zoom all the way to close focus at one point but then putting the lens into AF limiter 50-999m solved that. The procapture is greyed out but Oly did say that only works with Oly lenses. The CAF+tracking really does seem to work and on the bigma as well. I only had limited view from my back garden and then all that flys around here are magpies, pigeons and some distant black headed gulls. So using CAF + Tracking at 500mm in shutter priority about 1/500sec all hand held. I also set the camera image stabilization to 500mm for the lens. I was able to bring up the lens focus and fire a burst of frames while tracking the birds in the view finder eyepiece. Looking through the sequence I could see that often the first frames were out of focus not by much but the following frames were in focus.
I have done this with my other cameras and have come nowhere near getting many images in focus. For me this new camera has lots of potential and will bring back the excitement of trying to pan moving objects and getting your objects somewhere near in focus.
I am reluctant to post the images because they lack quality which is more down to the resolving power of the bigma in poor light than the camera body performance. They are however in focus as best as I think you can get given the lighting. I have posted one here and there are some others in my gallery.
To me this bodes well for using FT lenses when the light is much better.
I think this image best illustrates how much better the EM1 MKII is at CAF + Tracking. I pickup framing this pigeon as it flew over my roof it then flew behind a tree that was about 10m in front of me, but MKII continued to focus. The image has some auto tone applied and 30/50 noise reduction, it has not been croped either.
I have done this with my other cameras and have come nowhere near getting many images in focus. For me this new camera has lots of potential and will bring back the excitement of trying to pan moving objects and getting your objects somewhere near in focus.
I am reluctant to post the images because they lack quality which is more down to the resolving power of the bigma in poor light than the camera body performance. They are however in focus as best as I think you can get given the lighting. I have posted one here and there are some others in my gallery.
To me this bodes well for using FT lenses when the light is much better.
I think this image best illustrates how much better the EM1 MKII is at CAF + Tracking. I pickup framing this pigeon as it flew over my roof it then flew behind a tree that was about 10m in front of me, but MKII continued to focus. The image has some auto tone applied and 30/50 noise reduction, it has not been croped either.
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