Focusing Points

<p>As a fairly new user of mirrorless,(Oly E-P2) I have found that I have quite a few misses using the wide array auto focusing, and much greater success using the single focusing point. Is this a fairly common theme? What do others do in regards to the auto focusing?</p>

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<p>What do others do?</p>

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<p>Everyone does his(her) own way but the good ol way is to have the mirror, using (D)SLR. This is also great for manual focusing</p>

<p>Try setting it to "Single AF" and "Single Target".</p>

If you upgrade to the E-P3, you can set focus point using the touch-screen.

 

But center-focus-and-lock has worked since the beginning of autofocus, and continues to work.

<p>Single point focus. Keep in mind that IBIS is only active for about a second when the shutter button is depressed. (This can be confirmed by using focus zoom to 14x and observing that the image becomes still for around a second and then starts moving around.) If "focus and recompose" is used, IBIS will not be active. Only the OM-D keeps IBIS active so long as the shutter button is half depressed.</p>

<p>Another vote for single point AF: I use it all the time (on three different cameras!). Modern AF systems are very sophisticated (my D300 has 51 AF points) but they can still be fooled when you have multiple AF points engaged. It also helps that on my cameras (EPL1, D300, Canon G1x) you can move the single AF point in the frame to put it exactly where you want. Since I started using single point AF, I have not had any focus errors with any of my equipment.</p>

<p>Thanks to all for the responses. SIngle point it is!</p>