Focus Peaking?

[Waterengineer]

I have been a Nikon shooter for more than 30 years. I find myself doing more video and using manual lenses more for even stills.

Do any of the Canon cameras have focus peaking or does that need to a hack, i.e. Magic Lantern? Thanks.

 

[The Fat Fish]

I have been a Nikon shooter for more than 30 years. I find myself doing more video and using manual lenses more for even stills.

Do any of the Canon cameras have focus peaking or does that need to a hack, i.e. Magic Lantern? Thanks.

To my knowledge, none of the current Canon DSLR's have focus peaking. If you install magic lantern you can get it, but it it is not native.

 

[BlueCosmo5050]

I have been a Nikon shooter for more than 30 years. I find myself doing more video and using manual lenses more for even stills.

Do any of the Canon cameras have focus peaking or does that need to a hack, i.e. Magic Lantern? Thanks.

You need magic lantern.

I have always manually focused with video myself but Canon's new dual pixel AF technology with a touch screen is amazing. You can set it slow so it looks like manual focus, it's more accurate than your eyes, even at tracking.

As far as 4k full frame cameras it's only in the 1DX Mark ii right now, we expect it to be in the 5D Mark IV in a few months. With 1080p it's in the 80D.

I never believed they'd develop an auto focus that would look real enough and be accurate enough to replace manual focus for me but once I seen the 1DX, they definitely did it.

Nikon has no dual pixel AF or anything close to that. That's gonna be a huge advantage for Canon.

 

[Waterengineer]

Thanks. It is sad that at this late date you still have to use the hack.

 

[Phil214757]

I have been a Nikon shooter for more than 30 years. I find myself doing more video and using manual lenses more for even stills.

Do any of the Canon cameras have focus peaking or does that need to a hack, i.e. Magic Lantern? Thanks.

No, mine just lights up all of the AF points in focus out of the 61 possible for manual focus stills.

 

[Jon555]

As long as the lens has the electronics to talk to the camera then the chosen (i.e. enabled) focus point(s) can light up when stuff under them is in focus, you can get a beep too. Obviously this works for EF lenses in manual mode but you can also buy adaptors for non Canon-mount manual lenses with chips to give this functionality (for non-electronic lenses).

As an aside some external monitors can add focus peaking, but you have to be in live-view mode. (For example I have an Atomos Ninja Assassin which can do peaking.) Not that I'm suggesting buying one just for that.