Focus Bracketing is like magic on EOS RP with the RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS STM lens!!!

Aldaia wrote:

JoeSchmoe007 wrote:

Have you tried switching autofocus to Spot AF to focus on the front extreme point?

Yep, apparently was too thin to focus on, it either focused a little bit back (where the cone starts to widen) or failed to focus. I tried that with low light, will try again with better light.

I may have found a solution, it is "Lens Electronic MF" setting on Shooting main tab (the first one), secondary tab Shoot8.

It is described on page 200 of Advanced Users Guide (PDF with 612 pages).

Default is "Disable after One-Shot"

Change it to "One-Shot->enabled (magnify)" ("One-Shot->enabled" will work too but the "magnify" is more useful in this case)

Make sure your Focus/Control switch is set to Focus on the lens and Focus Bracketing is enabled.

Press shutter button halfway, it will auto-focus wherever (pick the point where it is able to autofocus on the screen).

While still holding shutter button you can now rotate focus ring to manually focus on the desired point.

Fully press shutter to take a picture.

I tested this as far as this started Focus Bracketing and took multiple shots. I have not inspected them or tried to compose in DPP.

Great finding. Will try tomorrow.

Have the .pdf but didn't read carefully yet.

Tested. Definitely works. In fact for focus bracketing I focused just a tiny bit in front of the desired point, something that is not possible in any other way.

Actually I think that I'll let the camera to "One-Shot->enabled" by default. That way it is always in AF mode but can override any time without tinkering with menus. Don't care anymore about the missing AF-MF switch on the lens.