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

Espen Helland

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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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0:00 - Intro
0:27 - 1. Mode Settings
02:08 - 2. Orientation Linked
03:04 - 3. Set Home
05:46 - 4. AF Limiter
10:36 - 5. Manual Focus

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20 Comments

@EspenHelland Creator 5 years ago Pinned

Any good focusing tips you can't do without?

@ansomeBob 5 years ago

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

@davidellis6757 5 years ago

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.

@marklaurendet1861 5 years ago

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

@alfredmartinezifernandez9644 5 years ago

This is one of my favorite videos.

@chetanunindracusin664 5 years ago

Great tips thank you

@keithhider2170 5 years ago

Really useful tips - thank you.

@mawavoy 5 years ago

Thank you for a very useful post!

@Ricardo-SW 5 years ago

Excellent one- thank you!

@maggiecampbell6627 4 years ago

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

@klaustomasini 5 years ago (edited)

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

@DracoPL 5 years ago

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

@willingleton4763 5 years ago

Good stuff! Thanks Espen.

@DTAnglesey 5 years ago

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

@Bigfarmer8 5 years ago

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

@icaadanne1 2 years ago

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

@MichaelRichards.Photography 5 years ago

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.

@grephusingati7807 5 years ago

Amazing thanks

@joanantonim.p.2400 5 years ago

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

@waywardone666 4 years ago

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 :-)