Canon R6 MKII Focus setup

[wrk4no1]

I purchased this camera a month ago and have searched for the best setting for photographing sports, wildlife etc. What I can't figure out is how to setup a single point so that the camera doesn't select some other object in the frame. hope that makes sense. For example, I have four objects on a table my single point box is pointing at one of the items, but the camera tries to lock on to one of the other objects. For the life of me I cannot figure out why. See images one shows the spot AF on a hat. The second image shows the camera trying to focus on the box to the left of the hat.

[jrhoffman75 · Accepted solution]

I think your best bet is to call Canon support at 1-800-OK-CANON and have them work you through it. 

[FloridaDrafter · Accepted solution]

Try taking it out of servo and using "One shot", also disable "Whole area tracking Servo AF". You can make both of these changes in the AF 1 menu dropdown, or by using the "Q" button and tapping the options on screen. To disable Whole area tracking when using the Q button, select a focus point configuration and toggle it (on/off) by tapping the Whole area tracking icon/INFO in the lower left of the AF point selection screen.

Not sure if this will get you the results you are expecting, but it will just take few minutes to try.

Newton

[ebiggs1]

Most of the time One shot and just the center focus point will be best. Are you in P, Av, or Tv mode? If not try it using one of those modes.

[wrk4no1]

Thanks for the reply. I am in manual mode. Issue is i cannot get the camera to just focus on what i want it to be focus on. It just defaults to the nearest object it seems and not the spot focus.

[jrhoffman75]

Generally the camera will try and focus on the closest object that has sufficient contrast for the focusing system. While it looks like the white area against the black background should have good contrast the displayed focus point isn’t an exact representation of the actual focus point. Try placing the focus point on the brim of the cap and capture the hat and the white paper and see if that helps. 

[wrk4no1]

Yes, so how can you force the camera to ignore what is closer and only focus on the single point? Another example i had a group of people in a formation and i wanted to focus only on 1 person in the group but the camera would not let me do so. On my 5D mkIII i have no problem using a single point AF.

[jrhoffman75 · Accepted solution]

I think your best bet is to call Canon support at 1-800-OK-CANON and have them work you through it. 

[FloridaDrafter · Accepted solution]

Try taking it out of servo and using "One shot", also disable "Whole area tracking Servo AF". You can make both of these changes in the AF 1 menu dropdown, or by using the "Q" button and tapping the options on screen. To disable Whole area tracking when using the Q button, select a focus point configuration and toggle it (on/off) by tapping the Whole area tracking icon/INFO in the lower left of the AF point selection screen.

Not sure if this will get you the results you are expecting, but it will just take few minutes to try.

Newton

[rs-eos · Accepted solution]

Looks like you have auto subject detection enabled.  See page 485 in the User Manual as well as following pages for manually selecting a subject for focus.