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What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

FreddieCXT — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:26:08 GMT

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

TimBird — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:19:26 GMT

I believe this is part of the manual focus guide to assist with precise manual focusing. The direction of the arrows tells you how to adjust the focus ring…

Arrows pointing outward from the corners indicate that the focus is nearer than the detected subject.
When the display is green, you have achieved accurate focus on your subject.
Arrows pointing inward towards the center indicate that the focal point is behind the subject.

To turn this guide on or off...

Press the MENU button
Go to the Autofocus (AF) menu
Look for a setting related to Focus Guide or Manual Focus Aids and enable it.

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

p4pictures — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:04:20 GMT

Do you have register people priority enabled and some faces stored?

https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-04_AF-Drive_0080.html

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:09:02 GMT

Manual focus guide looks like this so that's not it, I think Brian is right but as I don't shoot people I'm not sure.

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

LeeP — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:14:55 GMT

Thank you. I learned something today because of you. definitely a clever feature.

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

FreddieCXT — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:58:50 GMT

It is different from Focus Guide

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

FreddieCXT — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:10:27 GMT

I have some faces stored. Whether I enable of disable ‘register people priority’, the icon shows at the lower right corner only in movie mode with RF lens attached. And the icon is different from the one of face detecting.

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

p4pictures — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:44:11 GMT

What lens do you have fitted to the camera?

I can find no mention of this icon in the manual, but my thought is that it might be an indication that focus breathing correction is active. When specific lenses are used the camera compensates for focus breathing, it might be an icon for that.

This is the section of the manual where focus breathing correction is mentioned

https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-03_Shooting-1_0220.html

This is the list of lenses compatible with the focus breathing feature.

https://cam.start.canon/en/H001/supplement_0160.html

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

FreddieCXT — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:05:56 GMT

Thank you!

It is Lens aberration correction - Focus breathing correction.

The icon appears when I attach RF70-200mm F2.8L IS USM Z. Finally find the answer that not mentioned int the mannual.

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

Cyrilbrd — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:13:49 GMT

Hi, Possibly Subject Detection (People) is turned ON for autofocus.
The square brackets would represent the AF area.
The human silhouette inside it would mean subject detection = People (eye/face/head/body tracking).
And finally, the “ON” entice that this detection mode is currently active.

Re: What is this icon on EOS R5 Mark II

shawl — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:43:28 GMT

It is Auto Lighting Optimizer! Page 227 of the manual. Shooting menu; submenu=3, line 5! (The number of wrong responses is disappointing. Why make a guess when you don't know? People want correct information, not guesses.)