EOS R6 focus guide inaccuracy

moedius wrote:

ProfHankD wrote:

rkc wrote:

Yes, it seems to be focusing to infinity correctly.

I just double checked and it looks like I had misremembered slightly - the chipped adaptor I have that is behaving oddly is a C/Y adaptor not a PK one. I just tried it with a few different lenses and it reports "correct" focus in all cases when focused behind where it should be. It's not just a bit out either - it's enough to be very obvious that it has got it wrong.

My adaptor reports that the lens is f/1.4 - which none of the lenses I have tried actually are. I don't know whether that is is any part of the problem. It does seem as though the error is greater the more the lens is stopped down.

I checked in exiftool and it does seem to be reporting some rather weird values for the lens type:

Lens Type : Canon EF 35-80mm f/4-5.6

Max Focal Length : 65535 mm

Min Focal Length : 1 mm

Focal Units : 1/mm

Max Aperture : 1.4

Min Aperture : 1.4

Focal Length : 50.0 mm

One of the lenses I tried WAS 50mm, but other than that all the info is wrong.

Most main-sensor-based PD algorithms I know would use the aperture as a parameter, and it's quite possible they are tuning for f/1.4 marginal rays that don't exist when using an f/1.7 lens. If so, it would probably get worse when stopped down, and that's what you're seeing, so that's my guess. That actually bodes poorly for chipped use of adapted lenses in general, because chips generally report a fixed (maximum) aperture, so stopping the lens down would just make the PD data garbage.

The Canon EF 35-80mm f/4-5.6 is NOT a good lens. In fact, it's one of the poorer kit zooms with fully plastic build, a slow limited zoom range, and various optical issues. It is possible they'd be trying to correct for it, but if so, raw captures shouldn't be affected when processed by straight dcraw (or any other raw tool that doesn't apply corrections).

There is a slim possibility that the disagreement about the 1-65535mm with the 35-80mm causes the lens to be flagged as "fake" and is deliberately messed-up as an effort by Canon to discourage fakes -- sort-of like some Sonys refuse to work with batteries that don't ID themself as Sony made. However, I'm not aware of Canon doing that.

I was curious if all chipped adapters were still made by ripping the contacts off a scrap lens and gluing to adapter; the only chipped adapter I've had was like this.

After a little googling it seems like at least some seem to have non-scrap based chipping? I presume they'd still need to pick a lens ID for the camera to detect.

Might have missed it but I didn't see where OP mentions what brand adapter they have, but if its fotodiox this might be helpful?

https://www.fotodiox.info/blog/dt_articles/instruction-manual-generation-10-focus-confirmation-chip-instructions/

* i cant find a specific focal length in the adapter specs, which makes me think maybe the manual is for adjusting FL rather than microadjustments.

Unbranded adapter i bought off of ebay.