Olympus E-M1 Touch Focus for Stills & Video

 

A quick post to illustrate the different options for touch screen focusing on the EM1, also applicable for the EM10 as far as I know. There have been a very long discussion on dpreview between me and one of the forum members regarding this topic, and I have created this video to illustrate the options, and we seem to have reached a final conclusion at last.

The only thing not mentioned clearly in the video is the touch focusing mode, since there are 3 modes in stills mode and two during video recording, so here's a copy & paste from the original post:

When you enable touch screen in the EM1, you have three options:

1. Turn touch screen off.
   
2. Focus only, but not trigger the shutter.
   
3. Focus and trigger the shutter at once.
   

In video mode, there are only options 1 and 2.

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Back Button Focusing, What? Why? And How?

Excuse the quality of the picture, this is the best I could get out of my wife's P&S

So you've heard about BBF or Back Button Focusing and was wondering what BBF is. Maybe you also heard that once you get used to it you will never go back. In this post I will tell you what is BBF and why it is one of the best things that makes using a DSLR more practical and enjoyable.