Canon R8 - Video Focus Problem

[Anonymous]

hey guys. I’m having a big problem on my Canon R8.

I use it 90% of the time for photography but I end up doing some video work. When I bought it in May, it was working perfectly, however, I did the 1.1.0 software update and now when I went to use it to film, the focus is horrible, it takes many seconds to focus and I noticed that some options in the AF3 menu disappeared. I've already reinstalled the software and reset the camera to factory settings but nothing helped.

The camera starts looking for focus and takes a few seconds to find it, but after finding it, if the object moves it starts trying to focus again by going back and forth with the focus. it is impossible to use.

I've already tested it with my 3 RF lenses but none of them work in video mode. When I'm in photography mode, the focus works perfectly.

I don't know what else to do, I really wanted to downgrade to version 1.0.0 but I can't find the firmware.

Here is a link with a video showing the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySU_-c7tFV0

Thank you all.

[kvbarkley]

They never supply a file for the first software revision of the camera. You would have to send it back to the factory, and even then, I don't know that they would do it.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

AF Area - The image of your settings indicates you are using Whole Area AF.  Please change to Spot (narrow) or 1 point AF.  

Do you have Lens Drive when AF Impossible enabled? (recommended)

[Anonymous]

I've already tested all the focus modes, that's not the problem. Even before the update it worked perfectly in any focus mode, now it's horrible, like in the video I linked to in the post.