Keeping eye detection enabled and aperture wide open (EOS R6)

Duckman21

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I use C1-C3 mode (manual modes with slightly different AF parameters, auto update disabled), primarily C3 because it is adjacent to the video mode. Every now and then I notice these 2 issues:

First is that the aperture is sometimes remembered as the narrowest one at the long end of my lens (for example f9 for the 200-800mm or f8 for the 100-400mm). This issue didn't bother me much back when I was regularly using the 800mm f11 but I have noticed it more when using the 200-800mm as my daily driver. I sometimes end up forgetting to make sure it is wide open at the wider end and it ends up shooting at the narrower apertures. I find that setting the lock button as the widest aperture (zoom out to 200mm and press lock when dialed back to f6.3) does help keep proper scaling, but only while I am using the lens. When I add the 1.4x extender and remove it, it sometimes gets locked at f13 or f9. I think the other thing that triggers the change is when I change to video mode and back.

Another issue I've noticed is that eye detection seems to get disabled for some unknown reason. I guess this has to do with filming in video mode with an AF mode other than object detection, but I'm not sure how I can ensure it always remains enabled.
 

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