Beginner Can't manual focus my EOS 600D (kit lens) on the EOS utility

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I watched a youtube video showing how you can adjust the focus on the EOS utility for focus stacking purposes. You can use the arrows in app to focus in/out at regular steps so you can get even steps for focus stacking purposes.

I can't seem to do it on my camera and the camera always had some autofocus issues (when taking photos of people, sometimes it just wouldn't focus and not take the shot). I don't know if this is a fault with my lens or just a characteristic of this camera/lens setup.

I can only get the zoom in/out option when I put the lens in AF mode. But then the camera/lens seems to almost fight me when I try focus in or out inside EOS utility app. In MF swith on the lens the zoom in/out is completely greyed out.

ANy ideas if I have a faulty focus on my lens? I bought my camera and lens both off camerajungle years ago, so it was never brand new.

I am taking extreme macro photos and I have to put the lens in MF and manually change the focus myself by hand, it's not really ideal as the tripod moves a little when I touch the camera. I'm not sure if auto-align in photoshop is good enough to account for the camera moves. Also I have trouble getting the focus to go in/out in even amounts when I'm twisting it by hand.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFH6xKG3K8s
 
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If you’re taking ‘extreme macro’ are you certain the lens will focus that close?
 
I am just wondering if the 600D plus kit is compatible with the EOS utility feature. It's not a particularly recent camera, and not many DSLRs have focus-stacking from what I can gather. So you could be trying the impossible?

Hope you find a solution.
 
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