I started using the shutter button for AF after seeing one of your previous video's. I only use it when shooting action and wildlife. I have tried so many other methods and by far this is my favorite. It just makes so much more sense than back button AF only. Why use two buttons to do what you can do with just press of shutter. Most photographers forget why Back Button AF was invented back in DSLR days. Back then they didn't have the animal, eye detect tracking like they do now so you were very ofter having to focus, recompose, then shoot. You don't have to do that anymore. I have my camera setup very similar to your settings. Only difference is I use Zone mostly on shutter, then the Back button AF for Whole area animal eye detect, then star button for single point focus non-servo. Thanks for sharing.
My only caveat to setting the shutter button for AF start is that if you set the focus by pressing the shutter button and then want to reframe without going to eye detection it will keep focusing. Reframe and touch the shutter release and you are out of focus. Not an issue for most birding situations, but I seem to have a lot of birds in bushes and also shoot other subjects where this can occasionally lead to unexpected results. Everyone is different, but I appreciate seeing these suggestions and finding ones that help me. Thanks for this video!
Fabian, if you go to the Olive menu, Customise buttons, scroll to the DoF button and change this to: Switch es cont. shooting mode. When depressed if you are shooting at say 15 or 20 fps this will 'super boost' you count to 30fps, but only whilst the DoF button is depressed.
The one setting I did not use and really want to change is the MF setting: this one is very important indeed, thank you! I am thinking about using the shutter button for AF as well with an additional button for enlarging the AF square! So leaving the back button focus as @ericvaughan is doing as well! BUT, than I will use the buffer for preshooting every time I focus with the shutter button: battery usage? Unlike using back bottom focusing.
Hi Fabian, thanks for these suggestions! Hopefully I can try them out next week when mine should arrive ;-) What is your approach to switch as quick as possible from H to H+ drive mode ? Duade uses the DOF button on the front (which I'm also considering), but Jan seems to prefer using the DOF for MyMenu to quickly access multiple settings .. How do you prefer this ? Do you also have a quick way to enable eye-control AF, or don't you use it ? About a month ago, Jan found a setting to give priority to shooting to the CFxB card. It had annoyed me many times that after taking out the CFxB, my R5 started the next day shooting on the SD which I only use for backup, but which cripples the buffer big time. I was very stunned that hidden prio setting seems to have been added in a recent firmware for the R5 as well (which Jan didn't know yet either)
They added this cfexpress option in the end of 2020 or beginning of 2021 if I remember correctly. I have the C1 & c3 for different drive speeds & precapture
@@FabianFoppNaturephotography Danke Fabian, I only got my R5 in summer 2022, but I must have overlooked that CFx option, and I never heard about it before. I only recall both Aussies complaining about the camera switching cards behind our backs 🙈 Custom functions may indeed be a fast switching option, but how do you then manage your exposure settings ?
I started using the shutter button for AF after seeing one of your previous video's. I only use it when shooting action and wildlife. I have tried so many other methods and by far this is my favorite. It just makes so much more sense than back button AF only. Why use two buttons to do what you can do with just press of shutter. Most photographers forget why Back Button AF was invented back in DSLR days. Back then they didn't have the animal, eye detect tracking like they do now so you were very ofter having to focus, recompose, then shoot. You don't have to do that anymore. I have my camera setup very similar to your settings. Only difference is I use Zone mostly on shutter, then the Back button AF for Whole area animal eye detect, then star button for single point focus non-servo. Thanks for sharing.
Very useful info, and thanks. Esp. the VF views. I love your t-shirt too! Where did you get it?
Thanks! I bought it in a shop in Valencia
Hello Fabian, is there a big difference regarding autofocus for birds, between a Canon R6 Mark II and a R5 Mark II? Thanks best Ludo
My only caveat to setting the shutter button for AF start is that if you set the focus by pressing the shutter button and then want to reframe without going to eye detection it will keep focusing. Reframe and touch the shutter release and you are out of focus. Not an issue for most birding situations, but I seem to have a lot of birds in bushes and also shoot other subjects where this can occasionally lead to unexpected results. Everyone is different, but I appreciate seeing these suggestions and finding ones that help me. Thanks for this video!
Thanks!
Fabian, if you go to the Olive menu, Customise buttons, scroll to the DoF button and change this to: Switch es cont. shooting mode. When depressed if you are shooting at say 15 or 20 fps this will 'super boost' you count to 30fps, but only whilst the DoF button is depressed.
Yes, I know that function. But in the end I prefer to use the DOF button for focus recall
Very good information
Thank you!
Thanks
Thanks 👍🏻
The one setting I did not use and really want to change is the MF setting: this one is very important indeed, thank you! I am thinking about using the shutter button for AF as well with an additional button for enlarging the AF square! So leaving the back button focus as @ericvaughan is doing as well! BUT, than I will use the buffer for preshooting every time I focus with the shutter button: battery usage? Unlike using back bottom focusing.
Thanks
Hi Fabian, thanks for these suggestions! Hopefully I can try them out next week when mine should arrive ;-)
What is your approach to switch as quick as possible from H to H+ drive mode ? Duade uses the DOF button on the front (which I'm also considering), but Jan seems to prefer using the DOF for MyMenu to quickly access multiple settings .. How do you prefer this ?
Do you also have a quick way to enable eye-control AF, or don't you use it ?
About a month ago, Jan found a setting to give priority to shooting to the CFxB card. It had annoyed me many times that after taking out the CFxB, my R5 started the next day shooting on the SD which I only use for backup, but which cripples the buffer big time. I was very stunned that hidden prio setting seems to have been added in a recent firmware for the R5 as well (which Jan didn't know yet either)
They added this cfexpress option in the end of 2020 or beginning of 2021 if I remember correctly. I have the C1 & c3 for different drive speeds & precapture
@@FabianFoppNaturephotography Danke Fabian, I only got my R5 in summer 2022, but I must have overlooked that CFx option, and I never heard about it before. I only recall both Aussies complaining about the camera switching cards behind our backs 🙈
Custom functions may indeed be a fast switching option, but how do you then manage your exposure settings ?
“Release shutter without card” needs to get set to ‘OFF’, it prevents nasty surprises!
Yes, that was one of the things I mentioned in my other video