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R7 focusing randomly while no button is pressed...

Started 2 months ago | Discussions thread
OP charlyw64 Contributing Member • Posts: 717
Re: R7 focusing randomly while no button is pressed...

Distinctly Average wrote:

charlyw64 wrote:

Steve Balcombe wrote:

charlyw64 wrote:

Edit 2: Just checked. On the R5 the setting "Continuous AF" is indeed on AF-1-5 and the description matches what the R7 calls "Preview AF" in AF-3-2...

The name change is potentially confusing, but I think it was done because "Continuous AF" is the term used by other manufacturers for what Canon calls Servo (formerly AI Servo) AF, which was even more confusing!

That's what I also thought - and the video I saw must have been for one of the other R cameras. I can see where this behaviour may be advantageous but most of the time I find it annoying

I banged my head on the wall with that one too.

Somehow I managed to mess up my settings because of that. Somehow I thought it a good idea to enable that setting (if it wasn't enabled by default, don't care to check honestly because there are too many settings to redo if I reset my camera) - and enabled back button focusing which I duly didn't really remember/notice when I picked up the camera hours later after the weather cleared up a bit from the rain storm - the camera still halfheartedly focused afterwards, only the keeper rate dropped significantly.

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