topic Re: R5 Mk2 > Viewfinder and rear display with poor contrast and colour in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

R5 Mk2 > Viewfinder and rear display with poor contrast and colour

Filmertography — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:12:12 GMT

Very recently, with no changes by me to the previous configuration, I found the viewfinder and rear display having very little contrast and colour when shooting (in Manual - only auto function set is focus), hence used the viewfinder exposure meter to set exposure, however the RAW files were all OK (once downloaded after the shoot). Also co-incident with this was the min ISO I could select was 200. I checked the settings for display and viewfinder, with no obvious discrepancies - even tried adjust to the extreme of controls with no success. Finally I performed a "factory reset", now the viewfinder/screen is back to normal (same settings in place as when there was a problem) and I have access to full range of ISO.

Running version 1.03 software

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may have caused this? Is it "just" a software glitch, or something more I need to be concerned with?

Re: R5 Mk2 > Viewfinder and rear display with poor contrast and colour

FloridaDrafter — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:59:25 GMT

@Filmertography wrote:

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may have caused this? Is it "just" a software glitch, or something more I need to be concerned with?

One possibility is that the "Screen/viewfinder color tone" was changed from "Standard", which is default. This setting is in the Wrench 3 "Customize display" menu.

Newton

Re: R5 Mk2 > Viewfinder and rear display with poor contrast and colour

Filmertography — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 07:22:12 GMT

No- it was still on 2 = standard. I did try the other settings which made very little difference. The "Screen/viewfinder color tone" basically changes the warmth of the screen/viewfinder - the issue was incredibly poor tonal range/contrast and very little saturation.