Well, they already have the touch screen in place... :-) My understanding is that they filed several patents for on-chip PDAF sensor designs and went with one of the simpler, more practical and cost effective ones for the E-M1. My hands on testing with two lenses indicated it was about as effective if not better than their last pro-grade SLR, the E-5, which was quite good enough for me.
It's coming to be that AF systems are far more complicated than I want to invest the time to learn how to use them. Give me peaking with magnification, like the Ricoh GXR, and a manual focus lens ... Seems to work well enough for most of what I do and takes 20 seconds to learn. Godfrey > On Sep 26, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Attila Boros <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/09/26/new-olympus-patent-puts-phase-detection-at-every-pixel-on-a-sensor/ > > Looks good on paper, I wonder how will it turn out. There might be > some compromise in light gathering ability. The UI will have to be > changed, I don't want to press the down button 1209 times and the > right button 3671 times to set a focus point:) A combination of a > touch screen and fine tuning with buttons afterwards might work. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
