08-23-2024
08:33 AM
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08-23-2024
08:37 AM
by
Danny
I've just bought an R5 to replace my EOS 5DS and I'm struggling with the autofocus settings. My standard method of focusing (with EOS cameras) is to have a single centre focus point active, to use it to focus on whatever I want to focus, keep the shutter half depressed, recompose and shoot. It is an exceptionally fast way of focusing. I can't seem to replicate this on the R5. Even if I chose the single spot focus point (spot AF), I have to drag the focus box around the screen to try and find the centre point, and it moves around of its own accord when (for example) a part of my face touches the screen.
The tracking/face recognition setting doesn't work for my kind of photography. (For eg, I'm in a cave, the focus boxes randomly decide to focus on a part of one cave wall close to me, when I want to focus in the distance.) None of the other settings seem to give me a single focus box, locked in the centre of the frame.
So my question is this: Is there no way to have a single focus box locked in the dead centre of the frame?
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08-27-2024 10:15 AM
Thanks. I like to use the rear display for checking focus/blurring, but I've disabled the touchscreen element, so it's all fine
08-27-2024 10:16 AM
Thanks for this, very helpful
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