05-17-2025 01:24 AM
My EOS R10 suddenly started acting like I’m half pressed on the shutter button. However, my finger is not on it. I have a button to go from Servo to One Shot focus but no matter which one I set it to, the focus box instantly goes blue or green and will not stop trying to focus regardless of what button I press. I had this problem once before and after three days it finally stopped trying to focus and I was able to go into the menu and turn off Preview AF which seemed to be the problem, even though that’s not what the setting is supposed to do. I need to use my camera for work tomorrow and am frantically trying to make it stop focusing because I am unable to open the menu while it does. I have pressed everything, tried different lenses, no lens at all, and it still is trying to focus. Even when I switch it to manual focus it has the same behavior like it’s somehow half pressed in autofocus and not letting me open the menu. I just plugged it into my computer in hopes that I could use EOS Utility to turn off whatever setting is causing this or even reset the camera but any button I try to click on just says “busy” because the camera is still trying to focus since it’s on. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to fix this instead of hope it fixes itself by tomorrow because I really have no clue what made it stop focusing last time.
05-17-2025 08:00 AM
Check if you have enabled Preview AF. This setting makes the camera focus all the time it is powered on. Mostly it’s effective at eating through battery life too
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