Top 5 Focus Tips & Tricks for Wildlife

Top 5 Focus Tips & Tricks for Wildlife | Olympus OM-D

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Here are my Top 5 Tips and Tricks for photographing wildlife with the Olympus OM-D system. I use an EM1X and an EM1ii, but these tips will work on other Olympus models as well.
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0:27 - 1. Mode Settings
02:08 - 2. Orientation Linked
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05:46 - 4. AF Limiter
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@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Any good focusing tips you can't do without?

@shinysurfer 3 жыл бұрын

Not a focusing tip per se, but more of a visual aid to find where to focus. When doing birds in flight against busy backgrounds like trees on the shoreline of a lake, I find that setting the picture mode to black and white really helps in finding the bird, probably to do with contrast areas being easier to spot as opposed to colours. Great video as usual Espen!👍🏼

@jonnyanderson2271 3 жыл бұрын

Sufficient light helps me to focus on subjects. To be fair, I mainly use automatic focus, which doesn’t work for me all the time. I suppose I need to start practicing using manual focus. Roughly where about in the UK do you live? Just a region, I’m just interested that’s all.

@Bassbarbie 3 жыл бұрын

At the moment I have my Lens function button set to give me my custom mode 1 which uses C-Af with tracking as opposed to my more usual C-Af, so I can quickly go to it. However I'm now thinking I might see if I can use your 'Home' settings instead!

@icaadanne1 2 ай бұрын

Great video, lots of good tips, had to change my settings right away, and it makes things so much faster and easier now😁

@EspenHelland 2 ай бұрын

Great to hear 🙂👍

@davidellis6757 3 жыл бұрын

WOW... Reset the setting on my OMD EM1.2 and changed to back button focus. That has revolutionised my keepers and tonight I have had fantastic success with it. ProCap L... finger was aching a little but that trick works an absolute treat. Thank you Espen, brilliant again.

@willingleton4763 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff! Thanks Espen.

@Ricardo-SW 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent one- thank you!

@marklaurendet1861 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips especially on how to set the distance with the limiter

@keithhider2170 3 жыл бұрын

Really useful tips - thank you.

@DTAnglesey 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful video Espen, thank you for sharing your settings!

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@johnnonimus5175 3 жыл бұрын

I like to choose for Fn Lever Settings "mode 2" in this way you can change completely the focus settings to whatever you want just by switching the Fn Lever. You can also memorize the different settings you choose to C1 etc... as you wish. So in C1 I like to have caf 5x5 and switching the fn lever I have in an instant caf with all focus points. Also I like to change the color of the autofocus area pointer to deep red (so its always visible) by changing d3 grid settings display color R180 G0 B0 a75%. Thank you for the tips and especially for the af limiter. Greetings from Greece. Stay safe!

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Good tips John! I really like to have my video ready with the flip of the lever :)

@grephusingati7807 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing thanks

@alfredmartinezifernandez9644 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorite videos.

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alfred :)

@chetanunindracusin664 2 жыл бұрын

Great tips thank you

@klaustomasini 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Espen, thx for your very interesting videos, I use the FN 1 & 2 to switch between AF single spot and 5x5 spots in any setting at E-M1X

@mtcrun 3 жыл бұрын

As always, great video Espen! I hadn't noticed that we could set a different orientation linked HOME for both portrait orientations - very helpful. I think the issue you are describing with pressing your joystick to return to HOME is that the focus point needs to have been moved to activate the ability of the centre push to return to HOME. It’s both a help and a pain; as it prevents an accidental press from changing the point but slightly slows things down. I’ve yet to find a setting that changes this behaviour.

@mawavoy 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a very useful post!

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@joanantonim.p.2400 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much... 👍👍👍🙏 "Saludos... 👋👋😃 "

@maggiecampbell6627 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Espen. Have changed my settings and looking forward to trying them out.

@EspenHelland 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear Maggie, hope it works out for you 🙂

@ansomeBob 3 жыл бұрын

@8:10 what a fantastic tip, I've been shooting E-M1s for 5 years and never knew that :-)

@davidellis6757 3 жыл бұрын

Another great explanation of some technical issues I for one have with focus. Spent a lot of today out in the field and come home to 99.9% out of focus material.. Will try this stuff out next weekend 👍

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff

@waywardone666 2 жыл бұрын

Happy new Year to you Espen. Just found your vid here and since I am still struggling with good animal photos with my Olympus Combo, I found your tipps here excellent. Re-Set my Camera and will grap it later for some first trials. You showed me at least some really helpful things I haven't thought of yet! Thank you very much for your effort! Cheers from Germany :-)

@EspenHelland 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear it 🙂

@richard141724 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@EspenHelland 11 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙂🙏

@DracoPL 3 жыл бұрын

This is really impressive how adjustable AF setting are in Olympus cameras. Sony should learn from that...

@Bigfarmer8 3 жыл бұрын

Espen, great video! I watched it camera in hand to go through the settings immediately. Unfortunately I have only my trusty E-M10 MKII.... :-)

@raytbrown2 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome focus orientation tip when moving from portrait to landscape or back again. PS: I prefer both boxes ticked as it provides a faster choice than scrolling. (Just flip the camera.) Thank you so much.

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Good tip 👍

@joerghummerjohann4854 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic & helpful, thanks a lot, dear Espen! I've got two "HOME" issues which might help on my E-M1ii (no joystick) First, I've set a Fn button on the front side to "AF field home" , so by pressing it, the AF field jumps back to the center Second, I'm using the lever to change between small AF field and a group for birds in flight. Quick and robust Cheers, Joerg

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Good tips Joerg!

@andrewnoden9117 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Espen, Andrew here in Ottawa Canada, very useful video, hope all is well. Take care, cheers Andrew

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@petersmitham8273 3 жыл бұрын

That was extremely useful thanks!...👍📸🌈🇬🇧

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@timothylee5824 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. I use an EM-5 iii and wasn't able to find a way to assign a button to switch over to MF (my lenses don't have the MF clutch). Seeing the tip about setting home, I set home to MF, and then programed that to the Ael/afl button. I have the function lever to toggle between saf and caf and with a button press can move back and forth to MF. It works quite nicely. Wouldn't have discovered this workaround without your tips. Thanks!

@EspenHelland 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear! Cheers Timothy 👍

@fsi2210 3 жыл бұрын

I also use home to toggle between caf and bird af. Not a bbaf tho, instead I use AF stop on lens. Have Pro Cap H set to a C button. AF limiter is one of my most used settings, that's set to +/- button ( 0 - 7m , 7 - 30m and 30 - 250m)

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Nice one 👍 I’ve started using the other AF limiter settings as well

@Maisysmumma 3 жыл бұрын

Looking for the link to other videos...just learning the OMD MarkIII need loads of tips!!

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

There's links in the description, and a playlist :)

@ansomeBob 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if this would help with BIF but Robin Wong did a video about "CLUSTER AREA Shooting On Olympus OM-D", something I hadn't come across before.

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks will have a look :)

@MysteriousBeingOfLight 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice explanation! Do you sell any of your presets you use by any chance ? Cheers

@EspenHelland 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙂 do you mean editing presets?

@MysteriousBeingOfLight 2 жыл бұрын

@@EspenHelland Yes exactly 🙏🏼

@extremelydave 3 жыл бұрын

Well, there go another 50 million grey cells used to remember something. Getting low!!!

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

😅

@justinholding02 3 жыл бұрын

You guys should try the autofocus in the R5...

@Bassbarbie 3 жыл бұрын

I have the Oly Em1iii and the R5. Whilst the R5 is great for picking out birds in flight there are times when it doesn't focus as well as the Olympus. For example I cannot get it to focus on my bird feeder using the usual Af. If I change it to detect animals - then it will focus, even though there are no animals/birds there. Both have their good points.

@justinholding02 3 жыл бұрын

@@Bassbarbie with which lens? My EF 300mm f/2.8 IS II works like a charm

@EspenHelland 3 жыл бұрын

I hear good things

@Bassbarbie 3 жыл бұрын

@@justinholding02 the EF 100-400 ii. Now you’ve mentioned it, I shall try it with a different lens. It’s repeatable and odd! I noticed when I had the R, that it wouldn’t focus if you only have horizontal lines, I needed something vertical. Using the eye focus works on the R5, but the Olympus has no trouble finding the feeder.

@justinholding02 3 жыл бұрын

@@Bassbarbie nice lens for a zoom lens, I just sold mine because it wasn't getting used much anymore. I did test it a couple of times on the R5 with decent results, but I did notice that if I wanted to focus from a distant subject to a nearby one it would sometimes pump around a bit. I've also invested in a few RF lenses and I must say they are lightning quick at focussing. The AF system on the R5 is very complex, but once you've tuned it to your needs, it's absolutely brilliant. Do you find any benefit from using a cropped sensor camera anymore? I got rid of all my APS-C gear after I purchased the R5. The cropability is impressive and I'm really loving the image quality from the new sensor.