topic Re: EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting? in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting?

pinchvalve — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:29:41 GMT

While shooting action shots, I am constantly frustrated by the delayed timer shutter being activated accidentally, causing me to miss critical moments. This camera is too small and my fingers are too big NOT to hit this shutter select button constantly. What genius decided to but a button that disables the high-speed shutter right next to the thumb rest!?!?!? To me, this is a major design flaw.

Is there a way to disable this button while shooting? I can change the shutter speed using Menu if I want to, I don't need a shortcut.

Re: Disable shutter select button while shooting?

Danny — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:02:07 GMT

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Re: Disable shutter select button while shooting?

pinchvalve — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:28:18 GMT

DOH! Of course, updated.

Re: EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting?

p4pictures — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:09:05 GMT

Hello and welcome,

For the EOS R50, the buttons that form the cross keys on the back of the camera can be reconfigured using the camera's customised buttons. You can assign other functions to the button that you keep pressing inadvertently.

To customise the buttons press menu and go to the Custom settings menu, page 2. Select Customise buttons.

The screen will look like this, use the down button or drag on the screen to reach the button you want to change, then press Q/SET or tap on it. You will be presented with lots of alternatives and the last one in the list is OFF as in do nothing.

Re: EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting?

pinchvalve — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:52:53 GMT

That was easy! I saw that option, but never imagined that I could override the physical buttons. Thanks a billion!

Re: EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting?

runbei — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:49:21 GMT

Thanks for this. I bought the R50 in hopes of using it as an affordable companion to my R6 and EF 70-200 F/2.8 L IS II USM lens (pause to catch breath). The R50 was a VERY pleasant surprise - the first photos I took at an outdoor banquet with ~200 people for candids, music performance, and speakers were wonderful. Shooting at 300mm F/2.8 equivalent with the tiny R50 was SO much fun, and the sensor is wonderful combined with the big pro lens. The candid portraits in particular were just spectacularly lovely. Canon has been a treat for me (I'm a month from 83, pro part-time photographer for 57 years). I find that I can even shoot indoors at 1/160 or 1/125 at F/2.8 and get a reasonable percentage of sharp results thanks to the excellent stabilization in the 70-200 lens. I am GRATEFUL for this solution - thank you; the constant need to re-set the shutter to H or H+ was driving me nuts. Cheers.

Re: EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting?

pinchvalve — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:24:58 GMT

This was such a great solution, but it seems that Canon has removed the custom menu from the R50. I no longer have that menu on my camera, was it removed in an update or is there a secret to turning it on?

Re: EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting?

pinchvalve — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:27:50 GMT

Oh I see it now, have to be in certain settings. Nevermind.

Re: EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting?

FLBirdNerd — Sat, 24 May 2025 20:29:13 GMT

Thank you for this post. I was able to do this for Manuel mode, but is it possible when shooting an auto mode? I noticed that even though I fixed it in manual mode when I go back to auto, I still have the same problem and the menu doesn’t show a customized option when you’re an auto mode. Thanks for any help

Re: EOS R50 Disable shutter select button while shooting?

p4pictures — Sat, 24 May 2025 21:09:31 GMT

The custom buttons only work when the camera is used in one of the creative modes such as P, Tv, Av, M and any custom button configuration is ignored in the auto and scene modes on the camera