topic Re: 5D Mark III Won't Let me Choose AF points while shooting in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

5D Mark III Won't Let me Choose AF points while shooting

kprater — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:41:58 GMT

Hey! I have a Canon 5D Mark III and I recently had a new Main board put in recently and it wiped all of my settings out so I had to start from scratch and now my problem is this: While shooting I used to be able to use the joystick to choose AF points easily when I half-clicked the shutter button but now I have been needing to hit the AF point selection button on the back (five boxes icon with one solid one in the center) every time I need to change AF points--not change the type of AF focus point but the actual spot that focuses while shooting. It's terribly hindering my shooting speed. I think it might be a settings thing but I can't figure it out, please help.

Thank you,

Kirsten

Re: 5D Mark III Won't Let me Choose AF points while shooting

wq9nsc — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:38:39 GMT

Under the AF5 menu where do you have the menu item "AF point display during focus" set? I don't have a 5D but with this option set to "selected AF point" with my 1DX and 1DX M2 I can use the controller to select the AF point after a half depress of the shutter release

Rodger

Re: 5D Mark III Won't Let me Choose AF points while shooting

ebiggs1 — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:49:07 GMT

Who did you have replace the MB? Try another reset of the camera might be in order. If that does not fix it take it back to whoever did the repair. If it wasn't Canon it may not have bee done correctly.

Re: 5D Mark III Won't Let me Choose AF points while shooting

Waddizzle — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 17:09:39 GMT

Yeah. Sounds like replacement board could be used. Reset the camera, which must done in multiple menu locations. Make sure to reset Custom Control programming.

Re: 5D Mark III Won't Let me Choose AF points while shooting

PLee — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:32:14 GMT

The following steps will enable the joystick for direct AF point selection:

Custom Function Menu Tab #2 (C.Fn2: Disp./Operation)
Custom Controls
Multi-controller AF point direct selection
AF point direct selection

Re: 5D Mark III Won't Let me Choose AF points while shooting

ahousat — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:26:36 GMT

Thx you was struggling with this on my mark iv!!

Re: 5D Mark III Won't Let me Choose AF points while shooting

colinnnixon — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 05:49:26 GMT

This is great thank you! Somehow this got reset for me and it was very frustrating not having it. Finding this post and being able to have this function back is so good.