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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ammadoux" data-source="post: 1708236" data-attributes="member: 71763">Hi there , sorry late to reply, well as Christian said i am a MF fan, this is first second, i am not very aware of the technical terms and my poor english will not make me explain right, but when i had the E 520 as 7 6 weeks trial period i was only doing MF as i lost many shots when i used the AF it just did not work well for me, but when i got the E620 i did not experience these problems, i had the same lens on both, the ED 70-300, defiantly the EX 1.4 and the lens works better with the E 620.My analysis that Olympus know that and they fixed many of the draw backs on the E 620, by the way i had a friend who say that the E 510 focusing is also far better then the E 520.but no problem of this sort i had with the ED 45-150, unfortunately it is not a suitable lens for birds. but its macro capabilities are wonderful. and also the E 520 works superbly with the ED 50mm macro, no problem what so ever, even with the EX 25.</blockquote>