Manual Focus with non-L RF lenses on R7??

[denzil]

I have been shooting on canon since I was quite literally 14 years old. It’s the only brand I’ve ever known and used. Some things I love, some things I absolutely despise.

The removal of the MF/AF switch on the smaller non-L RF lenses for the control ring control instead is one of the moves I absolutely despise.

I was caught away from my RP, which is my go to landscape camera, and only had my R7 the other night when the auroras hit. I threw on my 16mm RF lens and proceeded to spend thirty minutes trying to figure out how to enable manual focus. I looked everywhere in settings before just giving up.

I have used my RF lenses in manual focus on my RP no problem. But watching auroras go up around me with no way to put my lens in manual focus made me irrationally irate.

Anyone else experienced this on the R7, and if so any fixes?? I tried to Chat GPT it in a pinch to no avail. Before I contact Canon, can anyone offer any advice?

[p4pictures]

I agree with you that the removal of the AF/MF switch from lenses is a pain. 

Your EOS R7 does have an AF/MF switch located on the camera body around the depth of field preview button. This switch only works when the lens doesn't have an AF/MF switch.

Strangely, perhaps, there is a menu setting that will disable the AF/MF switch on the camera body, but then the option to choose Focus Mode appears at the end of the AF1 menu. 

[Waddizzle]

There’s a AF/MF switch on the front of the camera body. Some bodies have a switch on the body.  The high performance , full frame bodies have a menu setting.

 Both the swirch and menu setting are disabled when a lens that has a switch is attached.