topic Re: EOS R50- Control ring doesn't do anything in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

EOS R50- Control ring doesn't do anything

amir36 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:06:30 GMT

I have the canon r50 camera with as a kit

with two lenses

I tried to use the control ring and it doesn't do anything

even after I set it up in the menu

olease let me know how to use it

Re: EOS R50- Control ring doesn't do anything

March411 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:29:28 GMT

amir36, welcome to the forum!

What lenses came with the kit?

I threw my 15-35mm on the R50 and tested the control ring function and it worked fine. I programed exposure compensation.

What do you have programed on your control ring? Are you half pressing the shutter button when attempting to make adjustments with the control ring? If you are not half pressing the shutter button when making the adjustment give it a try.

Re: EOS R50- Control ring doesn't do anything

FloridaDrafter — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:36:22 GMT

@amir36 wrote:

even after I set it up in the menu

Some of the "kit" lenses have a switch on them that change the function of the focus ring, if I remember correctly. So the focus ring may have a dual purpose of either a focus or control ring depending on what position the switch is in. Check the manual for your lens to verify this. There is also the possibility that you have to press a button on the back of the camera to activate the control ring. The later will be mentioned in the info as you configure the control ring in camera (my R5 II is like that).

Newton

Re: EOS R50- Control ring doesn't do anything

p4pictures — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:12:25 GMT

I'm assuming that your kit lens is the RF-S 18-45mm. If so there is no switches on the lens to select AF/MF or the function of the control ring. This means you need to make such selections from the camera menu. AF/MF selection is made at the end of AF1, and the control ring function is made from AF2.

To make the control ring work as a control ring not a manual focus ring you need to go to the purple AF menus, AF2 and there you will find the setting to determine the control ring function, either focus or control. Set it to control and then it will be a control ring. If you don't do this, then the function is focus ring, and if the camera is in AF then it does nothing.

Here's the manual page:-

https://cam.start.canon/en/C011/manual/html/UG-06_AF-Drive_0110.html

Re: EOS R50- Control ring doesn't do anything

amir36 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:24:00 GMT

I set it up in the menu

and put the control ring on Tv

but in some modes I dont see a shutter speed change when using the control ring

and in other modes changing the speed changes iso but not the apperture

Re: EOS R50- Control ring doesn't do anything

p4pictures — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 22:09:56 GMT

If you are using P, or Av mode then the control ring cannot change the shutter speed, as the camera is controlling it.

If you use M, Fv or Tv mode then you can control the shutter speed.

If you are using AUTO ISO then changes in the shutter speed in Tv, M or Fv modes will mean that the camera changes the ISO to compensate for the changes in shutter speed.

Re: EOS R50- Control ring doesn't do anything

sjskjtn5 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:09:10 GMT

Option 1 - If your lens does not have a physical “focus/control ring” switch on the barrel then DO THIS ON YOUR CAMERA:

1. Press <Menu> button

2. Tap on <AF> menu

3. Tap on or swipe to screen 6 in this menu (on my EOS R7)

4. Tap on the <Focus/control ring> option

5. Tap on <Use as control ring> then tap <SET OK>

6. Now go ahead and customize the control ring as described in your camera manual - search in the manual: “customize buttons and dials”.

END

Option 2 - If your lens has a physical “focus/control ring” switch located somewhere on the lens barrel then simply switch it to “control” and then go ahead and customize as per the camera manual instructions.