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Canon EOS M5 Review - From a 6D Owner.

Started May 27, 2017 | User reviews thread
PhotoKhan Forum Pro • Posts: 11,930
Re: The feature I most like on the M5.

darngooddesign wrote:

PhotoKhan wrote:

kbdkbd wrote:

PhotoKhan wrote:

With the shutter button half pressed, if I touch the manual override ring on a lens that features it, the image (...in the back screen and the VF, both...) auto-jumps to an enlarged format showing the focus peaking lines, allowing for on-the-fly pin-point manual focus adjustments.

It even works with EF lens that have such ring (i.e the EF 85 f/1.2 L II) and I can only but hope that this is a feature Canon will carry forward to all their future mirrorless, as it is "operationally transparent" and extremely intuitive to use.

Hi PhotoKhan,

How does this feature work? Is there a setting that needs to be turned on in the camera, and are the lenses you are referring to as "a lens that features it" the native M lenses or should it work with "L" lenses or typical EF-S STM lenses?

No selections needed that I remember of.

Any lens that allows for electronic manual focus override will work.

Half-press the shutter button. Operate the focus ring while pressing the shutter button. The displayed image will automatically zoom-in, "MF" blinking is presented on the right top corner of the display (back LCD or VF) and focus peaking will be come up (if enabled)

It's a treat. Enjoy

Don't you need to turn on AF+MF?

Correct. Forgot about that.

PK

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