R5 Mark II: pre-capture seems to randomly deselect itself

[shawl]

While I have no systematic data, I have been surprised when, apparently randomly, pre-capture becomes deselected without any action on my part to deselect it. Anyone else? Comments? Frustrating! Thank you.

[Waddizzle · Accepted solution]

What shooting mode are you using?  Custom shooting modes can regress to the default settings defined for the custom mode when the camera goes idle. 

[shawl]

Varies depending on what I'm doing. Usually M but sometimes T or A. I do have custom settings for birds in flight. All that said, this lens is a no-go on the R5ii.

[shawl]

That, then, must the answer since I generally (always… not sure) use pre-capture along with a custom mode I’ve set up for birds in flight. It would be nice if that was said in the manual! If there, I missed it. Thank you.

[Waddizzle]

Custom Shooting Modes have an Auto-Update option.  It is disabled by default.  If you wish to make changes to your custom mode, enable the update option, make your changes, and then disable it.

Happy to help.

[shawl]

a bit more specificity now that I understand it: once the "auto power off" time is reached, any temporary changes made to a custom setting revert back to the default. If one wanted, this could be bypassed by setting to DISABLE. The disadvantage of doing that is that one may forget pre-capture (actually, pre-continuous is the term used by Canon) has been set and then you will get many more images saved than desired.

[Waddizzle]

“ …a bit more specificity now that I understand it: once the "auto power off" time is reached, any temporary changes made to a custom setting revert back to the default... “

Exactly!  The custom shooting mode is a “preset” configuration.  It’s not a memory slot for your current camera configuration.  If you want the camera to retain the current settings when it powers down, then simply do not use a custom shooting mode.