R6 Mark II, auto focus jumping, shots out of focus

[Hannah123]

Hi there 

I am using the r6 m2 (I came from the eos r) I am finding the auto focus very jumping and a lot of shots are out of focus. My aperture and shutter speed are at the correct levels it’s just the auto focus jumps. Often it will focus on the body and not the face, and when I am shooting sports it can’t focus on the face. 

how do I fix this? The focus is a very small square (I shoot on auto focus with eye dectection back button focus) using the whole area focus part. 

unsure what the issues could be 

[deebatman316]

What lens are you using please provide the FULL NAME of the lens in question. Is it Canon or a 3rd Party lens. If a mount adapter is being used is it Canon or 3rd Party.

[Waddizzle]

Is your rear screen open?  You could be brushing against it and accidentally using Touch AF.  Try closing the screen and see if that makes a difference. 

[March411]

"Waddizzle Is your rear screen open? You could be brushing against it and accidentally using Touch AF. Try closing the screen and see if that makes a difference."

I learned the hard way, pretty decent size schnoz was the problem. Now if I could learn to use it more accurately it would be a bonus.

[Waddizzle]

There are settings in other menus that seem like they should disable the touchscreen.  But those don’t apply to every mode of camera operation.  You can try to use the lock switch, but you have to remember to set it. 

This setting in the Wrench menu will disable all touch control functionality on the rear screen.

[p4pictures]

I have the EOS R6 Mark II as well, and I find i works pretty well for all kinds of sports and people. However there is a bit of a different way of working compared to the original EOS R. 

Firstly the camera can do eye tracking of people quite well, just make sure to use servo AF. I usually find it better to use a larger zone to guide the AF where to look for a person as the subject. For me that usually means using the AF1 flexible zone AF area. With this you have a larger square shape to target a person in the frame, and in combination with whole area tracking Servo AF being enabled the camera uses the square and can then track beyond it for the face and eyes. I use eye detection set to Auto in the menu and subject to detect set for people. 

Note the three flexible zone AF areas can actually be adjusted in shape and size, so you can experiment with smaller or larger zones as you might need. 

You mentioned that you are using back button with eye detection AF, I think you should change that back to the default metering and AF start as the other settings above would be used and for me give a better success rate of finding the person / eye.