I got my canon R5 mark ii yesterday and adopted the settings of some birder guys online. I am out now trying to use it with noone to help me and I can't seem to get the little box to actually find a target to focus on. It is just a box fixed in one point in the middle of the screen that can move with the joystick thingy. Anyone have any idea how to remove this and get that box moving and finding a target?
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I have contacted brian a short while ago with help via a phone call.
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Hi guys, I had used a suggested range of settings which incorporated "back button focus". In truth I did not know what this was until Gary very helpfully explained it. I don't like it, though and want to go to the standard half press method I am used to. Does anyone know what settings I change without totally doing a factory reset? I guess I'm looking for step by step specifics! I tried googling "non back button af settings R5 mark ii" and got nothing
These are the settings I have. If anyone cares to talk me through changing their version of the AF settings to get just a standard half shutter press thingy to get focus that would be greatly appreciated!! For now I just want to be able to use the camera in some shape or form. When I have had tuition and practice I can look into incorporating stuff like the back button. Am a bit disheartened at how complicated it all seems in all honesty. I'm not very patient nor am I a details person as such!
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Sorry this might be a bit late.
Genuinely; I’d persevere and learn to use the BBF.
Not just because personally I find it much more intuitive (when I first used an AF SLR I was frustrated by shutter button focussing), but because it’s a million times more versatile.
If using the shutter button and you have it set to eye af, what if you then want to shoot an inanimate object? You have to remember which button you’ve customised to change focus mode, then cycle through the modes and set it. Or worse still, dive into the menus.
Using the two rear buttons I can go from eye focus to objects within a nanosecond. Without thinking, without removing the camera from my eye. And then back to eye focus at will.
I can use BBF to focus recompose too, or just for timing, using the back button, I focus on some rocks, let go of the button then wait for the perfect moment when the waves crash over them, without fear the camera will try to refocus.
Back to the first point, when shooting MF, the act of focussing the lens was a completely different action to that of clicking the shutter. So combining the 2 actions made absolutely no sense to me, and as soon as I could afford an SLR that allowed me to separate the 2, I bought one.
Then getting the R6 and being able to separate shooting people and ‘things’ has been the biggest leap in camera tech in my 40+ years of photography. Maybe apart from the move to digital.
Genuinely; I’d persevere and learn to use the BBF.
Not just because personally I find it much more intuitive (when I first used an AF SLR I was frustrated by shutter button focussing), but because it’s a million times more versatile.
If using the shutter button and you have it set to eye af, what if you then want to shoot an inanimate object? You have to remember which button you’ve customised to change focus mode, then cycle through the modes and set it. Or worse still, dive into the menus.
Using the two rear buttons I can go from eye focus to objects within a nanosecond. Without thinking, without removing the camera from my eye. And then back to eye focus at will.
I can use BBF to focus recompose too, or just for timing, using the back button, I focus on some rocks, let go of the button then wait for the perfect moment when the waves crash over them, without fear the camera will try to refocus.
Back to the first point, when shooting MF, the act of focussing the lens was a completely different action to that of clicking the shutter. So combining the 2 actions made absolutely no sense to me, and as soon as I could afford an SLR that allowed me to separate the 2, I bought one.
Then getting the R6 and being able to separate shooting people and ‘things’ has been the biggest leap in camera tech in my 40+ years of photography. Maybe apart from the move to digital.
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I tried back button focussing, but didn't like it, so took it off. Just a fancy button press from what I can see. I do just fine pushing the standard button
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How often do you switch from eye AF to single point AF?
How long does it take? How many button presses?
And how often from continuous AF to single shot?
And again how long does it take? How many button presses?
Genuinely curious
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I after years of using bbf and now dual bbf, I can't go back to shutter button focus. My camera is nearly always in servo AF, I've assigned the dof button (canon r7) to one-shot AF. This allows me to quickly go between the two focus modes without having to into the Q menu or main menu. The dof button is right next to my little finger of my right hand, whilst holding the grip.
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Depends what the subject what I'm taking is.
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It was a set of questions regarding how you swap from one subject to another.
Not a trick question, but you responded after I’d posted how easy this is with BBF by suggesting BBF was inconsequential, so I’m interested in the alternative.
It may help others.