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M6 Mark II magnify focus with one button?

Started Jun 9, 2020 | Questions thread
Dors
Dors Regular Member • Posts: 320
Re: M6 Mark II magnify focus with one button?
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UrbanHobbit wrote:

As an M5 user who often enjoys shooting with manual focus-only lenses, my only real complaint is how getting the EVF to magnify takes so many awkward control manipulations. It seems that the new M6 Mark II may permit customizing a button to turn on focus magnification with one press. Is that possible? I see from Canon’s marketing page that one of the customizable functions is “magnify/reduce” – however it’s not immediately clear if that refers to focusing or to image review.

Thanks in advance! This is hopefully an easy thing to determine if you have the camera handy. I searched through many YouTube videos about the M6 II but nobody seems to be as interested in the details of manual focusing as I am...

On M6 I press the window-like button (under the *) and a square appears. Then turning the front dial magnifies 5x or 10x depending on the direction of turning the dial. I don't know there is a quicker way or not.

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