Setting Focus And Exposure With The Ael/Afl Button (K Ael/Afl) - Olympus E-M1X Instruction Manual

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Setting Focus and Exposure with the AEL/AFL

Choose how the camera sets focus and exposure when the shutter button or AEL/

AFL button is pressed. The camera normally focuses and locks exposure when the

shutter button is pressed halfway, but this can be changed according to the subject

or shooting conditions.

Choose options for each K focus mode.

S-AF: [S-AF] or [S-AFb]

C-AF: [C-AF], [C-AFb], [C-AF+TR], or [C-AF+TRb]

[MF] or [PreMF]

Choose whether the camera focuses when the shutter is pressed halfway.

[Operative]: Pressing the shutter button halfway initiates autofocus regardless

[Inoperative]: Pressing the shutter button halfway will not initiate autofocus if

The table below shows how this setting interacts with [Half Way AF].

• "1" indicates the operation performed when [Half Way AF] is enabled, "2" the operation

performed when it is disabled.

AEL/AFL mode

of whether autofocus is currently assigned to the AEL/AFL button.

In [C-AF] mode, the last button pressed is used to maintain focus.

This option has no effect in [MF] mode.

autofocus is currently assigned to the AEL/AFL button.

Shutter button pressed

All the way down

AEL/AFL button

Kept pressed