I tried it on various function buttons and obviously the choice of button will be dependant on size of hand and personal preference and comfort. I have the EM5II and I have split the AF from the shutter button. (I may end up assigning Fn1 to something else less critical, though SCP is easy enough to navigate so I can access most other functions like ISO/WB etc when needed.) Delete This method means you never have to worry about losing your carefully adjusted focus when you finally commit to the full depress of Shutter Release button for the shot you desire. assign "half-depress Shutter Release button" to something like AEL (or even nothing at all), so that you can either "hold-half-depress then recompose-and-full-depress" or just "shoot" to take your photograph with the still-locked-in-focus assign "Fn2 (or Video) button" to "SF" or "SF+M", so when pressed it stays locked in to the desired focus forever (and/or as you move the manual focus ring it will lock in there forever too) (also, I don't like using the Fn1 button because is very hard-to-reach, so I use the Fn2 or Video buttons instead as they are 0.1 parsec away from Big Ol' Grand-Daddy :) !). It seems everyone just goes along with the usual mantra of "half-depress Shutter Release button for Focus (S/C/M)", but I have found a better way. on his articles that are nice to read and inspirational, of which I own an OMD E-M5 (with two kits lenses, but now deciding between !advice please! the Panasonic 14-140 or Olympus 14-150) and am endeavoring to master my skills asap for ultimate visual gratification - I love tinkering and optimising wherever I can, and here is one example. The problem may be there, I am not denying it, I never did, but overemphasising on the problem is also a problem on its own, which I have observed in lengthy forum discussions. This brings me back to my original comment on "being overly critical". Honestly, viewing my images at 100% from that entry, with the bird photos showing all the fine details of the feathers, even if there was slight shutter shock, it was completely fine. It is sometimes not easy to spot (it does take trained eyes to spot the problem). Did it make me less confident? No, I went all out and shot almost a thousand images. I made a mistake of assuming that the firmware was upgraded but it has not, hence there was no AntiShock "0 second" function (which is the electronic first curtain shutter) available. I used E-M10, which has identical shutter mechanism as the E-M5. The latest example I can give you is using the 75-300mm II. Did that stop them from taking awesome photos? Nope. I have friends using Canon, Nikon, Sony and all sorts of cameras and they all admit there are incidences of shutter shock. Nonetheless, I do not see how his is better or worse than other cameras. I am not saying that we should not innovate and solve this issue, it clearly will be addressed since it has been blown out of proportion. I have published thousands of photographs on my blog, and each and every one of them I made sure were perfectly sharp and free of shake of any kind. Even if the shutter shock happened, it never cause any huge impact that would render my image useless. I have used the E-M1 and E-M5 extensively and did not find any issue at all. Just pin-pointing the problem on Olympus is NOT fair. Shutter Shock has ALWAYS been around in any cameras with mechanical shutter, including ALL DSLR. I have to respectfully disagree with you. i'm shooting more with my fantastic trusty E-M5 and a little less with my E-M1. It makes a very noticeable difference (between a sharp and totally blurred image) with some bodies. So my advice to E-M1 users would be: If you think you're somehow shaking the camera, or, if you think "wow, how could I have missed focus so badly ?!", then please set 0 second anti shock and select the single-frame with the diamond. Regrettably Olympus haven't (either can't or won't) enabled this fix in anything other than single exposure mode. Had Olympus not provided this firm-ware work around this the camera would have had to be returned. At least one in four of the images from my E-M1 are unusable (if the shutter speed is <= +-1/500) unless I enable the 0 second anti shock to use First Curtain Electronic Shutter. I do disagree with your one observation though: "some of us being overly critical of shutter shock" is, with the greatest of respect, an understatement of the extent of this problem. Hi Robin, thanks for all your helpful suggestions.
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