First photos with E-P1

[AJShepherd]

The thing is, how does the camera know when you're focusing a manual lens like a M mount lens or an old OM lens?
It doesn't. But to magnify the focus spot is just a couple of button pushes. Press the 'Info' button until you get a green square on screen, then press 'OK' to zoom in on the square. Pressing 'OK' again zooms back out for framing.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Sounds like the moment would be past by the time you do all that. Maybe o.k. for static scenes.

 

[mawz]

If auto magnification doesn't work with manual focus, ie. adapted, lenses, then forget it! This is a major perk on the G1, correct?

There's no auto magnification on the G1 with manual focus lenses (apart from the 4/3rds lenses from Olympus and Panasonic which are MF only due to lack of Imager AF support).

You need to manually activate the focus magnification, it's a button press to the area selection then a confirmation press to activate.