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highdesertmesa · 10-19-2020

WIth firmware 1.7 and the camera set to enable sensor cleaning at power-off (or set to enable which cleans at power on and off), the R runs cleaning when it's powered off and a LENS is detached or attached. I think this was a firmware bug introduced ...

highdesertmesa · 11-17-2019

For the EOS R: when adapting vintage manual focus lenses without an electroinic chip, I can't get the white focus box to appear so that I know where I will be zooming into when I use the zoom tool. Using the directional arrow pads does move the focus...

highdesertmesa · 11-17-2019

I figured it out!!! Thank heavens: This is not intuitive, but it works: you have to turn off Focus Guide (the box with the two marks above it that align when the subject is in focus, which only works with electronically-coupled/chipped manual lenses)...

highdesertmesa · 11-17-2019

@Waddizzle wrote:When you use a manual focus lens that does not communicate, AF is effectively turned off. Use Focus Peaking, instead.This is not a white AF box. This is a box showing where you'll be zooming into when you use the zoom function. RP h...

highdesertmesa · 11-17-2019

Focus peaking is not enough for critical focus at wide apertures. The lens does not need to be electronically coupled to show the white box. It's not an "AF box", it's just a box showing where you will be zooming into when you hit the zoom function. ...

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Eos R: white focus box will not appear for manual focus lenses (non-electronic)

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