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I’m satisfied with the speed but the AF area needs to be smaller. As it is now, the background affects the focusing way too easily. Autofocusing on a bird, for instance, is almost impossible when there are trees or other detail in the background.

While I am very happy with the auto focus speed, I am not happy with the new ‘feature’ of switching to the LCD screen for menu items or reviews when the E-P2 electronic viewfinder is used. One of the minor reasons I bought the E-P2 over the E-P1 in the first place was so that I could use the EVF for review and menu setting, and not have to switch from the electronic viewfinder to the LCD like you have to do for a DSLR. I had this in my Olympus C-2100UZ, Olympus C-8080WZ, Canon S1, Olympus SP-550UZ cameras, and it is very convenient in bright light.

Here is the fourthirdsphoto article I started on the subject.
http://forum.fourthirdsphoto.com/showthread.php?t=56815

I also agree about the AF area needing to be smaller. I’m not sure if it is bigger than it was before, but after doing the upgrade, I was focusing on several things in the house, and couldn’t get a focus lock once or twice. However, I didn’t try it on the same object before doing the update.

Jón: the USB cable was provided with the camera. I don’t think it’s a standard one.

Agent00soul: fully agree, I just shot thousands of photos on holiday and when shooting someone against a strongly lit background, my EPL1 made the edge of the subject’s head sharp but not their facial features (I was using a 20/1.7). Quite annoying, but good thing there’s manual focus override

Am I blind or are they testing version 1.1 !!! at dpreview? 1.4 should be even better.

at, the funny thing is they didn’t include the G1 + Panasonic lens. Maybe not to spoil the Oly firmware party… who knows.

I agree about the efv to lcd switching – make it an option!

I prefer the old way.