topic Re: R5 Mark ii - Image Stabilization Greyed Out in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

R5 Mark ii - Image Stabilization Greyed Out

pillarpaul — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:38:03 GMT

I just got my new R5 Mark ii camera the other day and I have been frustrated that the menu item of "IS (Image Stabilizer) Mode" is greyed out. When I press the menu item to get more detail it tells me "Restricted by the following settings or conditions:

Current attached lens
Pre-cont. shooting"

My lens is the RF 100-500mm lens that I had on my R6 and IS worked fine. I swapped it out for another lens the RF 24-105mm just to test and the same message appears. When I disable Pre-cont. shooting in the menu the error message for that goes away but the lens error message still remains. And since I am a bird photographer I do NOT want to disable Pre-cont. shooting.

I might add that indeed I seem to be lacking some IS in that many of my shots are a hair soft (mostly birds in flight that the R^ nailed perfectly) so the IS likely is not working on the new camera.

Anyone else run across this or am I doing something obviously wrong that I don't see?

Thank you.

Paul

Re: R5 Mark ii - Image Stabilization Greyed Out

Dcoz2 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:34:52 GMT

In the R5 Mark II user manual, here : - https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-03_Shooting-1_0330.html - it says the IS mode option is only displayed with using a non-IS lens. As long as your lens has the stabilizer switch to 'On' you are using IS.

Re: R5 Mark ii - Image Stabilization Greyed Out

shadowsports — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:41:16 GMT

Greetings ,

That menu option is there to enable / disable IBIS on lenses that don't have IS. If you turn off iS on the lens switch it disables it on the body too.

Edit, The above post from Dcoz2 is correct. I'm on my mobile and missed it before replying.

Re: R5 Mark ii - Image Stabilization Greyed Out

pillarpaul — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:23:30 GMT

Ah, thank you so much!

Paul

Re: R5 Mark ii - Image Stabilization Greyed Out

pillarpaul — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:24:12 GMT

Thank you, Rick. That confirmed the earlier response indeed.

Pal