topic Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

EOS R7 Single Point AF

oliveJar — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:40:04 GMT

Hello, I am a bird photographer. I just purchased an EOS R7 and like the subject tracking and eye detection AF. In my old EOS 80D I had the option to pick a single point and the camera would focus on that point only. I sometimes need this capability while photographing a single bird out of a flock. Is this sort of capability available on the R7? I cannot seem to find it.

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:38:14 GMT

You need to turn tracking off.

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

oliveJar — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:52:08 GMT

I forgot to mention that I have have tracking and eye detect turned off by default and have set up buttons to enable/disable them. This doesn't seem to help.

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

Waddizzle — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:04:24 GMT

@oliveJarwrote:
Hello, I am a bird photographer. I just purchased an EOS R7 and like the subject tracking and eye detection AF. In my old EOS 80D I had the option to pick a single point and the camera would focus on that point only. I sometimes need this capability while photographing a single bird out of a flock. Is this sort of capability available on the R7? I cannot seem to find it.

It should work almost identically as the DSLR.

Just remember, once you select a single AF point it does not change or move around on its own.

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:10:45 GMT

Not sure I understand. Are you saying you can't select Single Point AF?

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

oliveJar — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:21:21 GMT

I have Single Point AF selected with tracking off but the camera still moves to other subjects.

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

oliveJar — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:21:53 GMT

I will try some things today or tomorrow to verify the settings and operation.

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:33:18 GMT

You could give Canon a call at 1-800-OK-CANON

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

oliveJar — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:06:51 GMT

Thank you everyone for the replies.

I got the camera set up the way i want. I was able to get it to focus on a single bird or use eye tracking as desired.

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

firstmirrorless — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:39:11 GMT

I'm having the same issue. Can you tell me what you did to make the focus point stay in one place?

Re: EOS R7 Single Point AF

oliveJar — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:03:00 GMT

Hello,

The eye focus works well if the subject is reasonably close or isolated. If it is in a group or at a fair distance the eye is not always detected. There may be a better method, but, I use the custom settings C1 (eye focus) and C2 (spot focus or single point), C1 is for single birds where the eye can be detected and I switch to C2 for when the bird is in a group or distant. I use back button focus AF-on for each of these modes and the AE Lock (*) button in either mode to capture a flying bird. Here are my basic settings: