I'll send them a message - focus peaking is the one thing that's making me look seriously at NEX.

I'm seriously looking into Samsung's NX system. On the NX100 you can manually focus using a peak contrast indicator (does not when using x2 magnification). Romour has it they are switching to IBIS soon, (apparently they co developed the Pentax system) they also have a retro style body due out soon. They have the second best range of native lenses too.

Might sell my panny 20mm to buy one. I love using my MF lenses, more involving, more tactile. No way can I afford/justify ££££ for decent native lenses. I can see myself picking up a couple of native Samsung pancakes 16mm & 30mm and a short zoom. Has a X1.5 crop factor as opposed to m43's X2.0

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I manually focus using the magnification view. I usually think of how I want to frame the subject and I move the magnification frame over the place I want to focus on. Then I zoom in, I focus, and I take the shot - I don't even need to zoom out, because I picked the framing already, although I will do that if the subject is static and I have the time.

A couple of samples from the 25/0.95:

@f/0.95:



@f/2.8:

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I manually focus the same way as Laurentiu above. Compose, move focus box if necessary, magnify, shoot. The painful part is moving the focus box around.

I also use the magnification when necesary.
I have an EVF, but rarely use it.

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With a big lens (Sigma 70-300mm F4 zoomy) on a wobbly tripod at 2meters can be a challenge to manually focus.

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Long lenses are tricky, but here's what I got with a 300/5.6 handheld and without an EVF:



Brace yourself, breathe deeply, then shoot within 2-3 seconds after you exhaled. :) Make sure you have a fast enough shutter speed. I had to bump ISO to 1600 for the above shot, because I stopped to f/8 to get better sharpness.

Heavy lenses really won't work well on small bodies - you won't be able to balance them properly. I expect the E-M5 with the extra grips and the EVF would be a better tool for using longer heavier lenses.

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