Being an E3 owner I read with interest all the problems with focussing you guys have. I feel compelled to share with you the problem I had with the Holder HLD-4 which I purchased recently. Everything's okay if holder is used with Original battery BLM-1. On trying out to use the battery holder that holds 6 AA size batteries, the battery icon shows green for hardly one minute and then went on the red indicating flat batteries and everything from camera to lens refused to work. First trip back to Oly they said they had to load in Firmware 1.1 and finally the E3 came back. Upon testing in the camera shop itself, the same thing happened. The E3 went back to Oly second time and this time it came back I was told not to use rechargeables but only Alkaline batteries (disposable type). I paid for new Alkalines at the shop itself, the same thing happened! I really do not know what Oly Malaysia is doing - or whether anything was done at all to the E3. Their lackadaisical attitude to address this problem is not of some Corporate Organisation and my problem is not solved yet. Not that you need to use the AAs but if you had invested in a so called State of Art camera, you would expect every feature in the camera works. Here we are talking about some wiring and powering up of the camera which I think does not require a rocket scientist to design. I begin to doubt about the fantastic performance of the E3 in other departments.
