I'm giving my M5 one last week (trip to VA) to prove itself a keeper.
I finally figured out what particular thing I really don't like about it, and I'm hoping someone on this forum can point to a setting that would simply make the issue go away.
When I carry a camera around, I typically have it on a sling, ready to draw very quickly to capture the animals I'm sometimes tracking. Speed to shot is very important to me. But when I tote this M5 around while on, I can hear the focus racking back and forth as its AF module gets all sorts of crazy views while swinging off my hip. So I keep it off generally.
When the moment comes, and I turn it on, I've been having this awful thing happen. I look through the viewfinder, and bring my right thumb up to select the focus point, but the optical view finder sits there frozen. Once I have-click the shutter button, all works find, but I need to do that extra, extra step of hitting the shutter button before it'll let me even use the viewfinder to determine a focus point. This means there are two steps before shooting: turning the camera on, and then gauging the half-press on the shutter button, and then finally having the ability to operate the camera.
Is there a setting or mode I can alter to skip that extra step? It doesn't sound like a big deal, but the difference between that and the DSLRs is maddening. They can stay on in sleep mode without the focus racking, and I needn't press the shutter button to get them to kick into gear. That said, they also completely lack the thumbing-for-focus-point feature that I do like very much ont he M5.
Any guidance greatly appreciated.
I finally figured out what particular thing I really don't like about it, and I'm hoping someone on this forum can point to a setting that would simply make the issue go away.
When I carry a camera around, I typically have it on a sling, ready to draw very quickly to capture the animals I'm sometimes tracking. Speed to shot is very important to me. But when I tote this M5 around while on, I can hear the focus racking back and forth as its AF module gets all sorts of crazy views while swinging off my hip. So I keep it off generally.
When the moment comes, and I turn it on, I've been having this awful thing happen. I look through the viewfinder, and bring my right thumb up to select the focus point, but the optical view finder sits there frozen. Once I have-click the shutter button, all works find, but I need to do that extra, extra step of hitting the shutter button before it'll let me even use the viewfinder to determine a focus point. This means there are two steps before shooting: turning the camera on, and then gauging the half-press on the shutter button, and then finally having the ability to operate the camera.
Is there a setting or mode I can alter to skip that extra step? It doesn't sound like a big deal, but the difference between that and the DSLRs is maddening. They can stay on in sleep mode without the focus racking, and I needn't press the shutter button to get them to kick into gear. That said, they also completely lack the thumbing-for-focus-point feature that I do like very much ont he M5.
Any guidance greatly appreciated.
