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EOS R Lock focus point to center or disable touch?

Started Mar 12, 2019 | Discussions thread
drsnoopy Senior Member • Posts: 1,216
Re: EOS R Lock focus point - a solution
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For the R body.  Set the rear screen to display only the Settings while you're photographing using the EVF - you can cycle screens with INFO button.  The screens available can be configured in the menu, it's the yellow menu page 4 "shooting info disp" then "screen info settings" - you might only want 2 or 3 screens anyway.  I use screens 2 (full info), 4 (no info), and 5 (Settings).  When it's only showing Settings, touching the screen accidentally or bumping it when moving has no effect and so your focus point won't move.  There is another advantage to using the Settings screen as your default, because one press of the Q button then gives you touch screen access to all (or most) of your camera settings, which I find very handy. When you want to photograph using the rear screen, just cycle to the live view screen.

On the R5 one of the screens available is "blank", but this isn't possible on the R with the current firmware.

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