topic EOS R3 Magnify snaps to top left corner instead of center in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

EOS R3 Magnify snaps to top left corner instead of center

meetch — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:31:26 GMT

Hi all,

Long-time Canon user - bought my first AE-1 in 1980 - but new to the R3.

I need some help with this issue. In Playback, when I hit the 🔍 button, I have it set to magnify to the focus point. When no focus point is registered (or displayed) it jumps to the upper left corner. Is there any way to set that to just magnify to the middle of the image?

Thanks for the help!

Mitch

Re: EOS R3 Magnify snaps to top left corner instead of center

p4pictures — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:45:43 GMT

From the EOS R3 menus it is a choice to magnify from the centre, or the active AF point. I suspect you have the AF point set.

https://cam.start.canon/en/C010/manual/html/UG-05_Playback_0040.html

However the third menu item "maintain position" is the magnification location for subsequent images. What setting do you have here?

Re: EOS R3 Magnify snaps to top left corner instead of center

meetch — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:24:35 GMT

Hi Brian

The third menu item is set to "disable". Should that be 'enable'?

Mitch

Re: EOS R3 Magnify snaps to top left corner instead of center

p4pictures — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:42:10 GMT

Try it and see. As I understand it, when this is enabled the zoom will be from the same point as the first image you look at, rather than the location of the AF point for each individual picture.

Re: EOS R3 Magnify snaps to top left corner instead of center

meetch — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:14:10 GMT

it doesn't matter if 'maintain position' is set to Enabled or Disabled. If 'Magnified Position' is set to 'from focus point', it will zoom to the focus point... unless there is no focus point. In that case, it will zoom to the upper left corner, regardless of Maintain Position setting. I hope I'm making sense.