My EOS-M body only arrived last night. Got the battery charged overnight and installed the 202 firmware and started through the manual. Has anyone found how to turn off AF? I plan to use this with manually focused lens when my adapter arrives next week.
Paul,
Make sure the mode switch (around the shutter button) is in the center still photo position. Then hit the menu button and go to the second from the left tab and look for focus mode where you can select MF only.
Depending upon on what mode you are in the menu options you can see and set will change. If you select the typical Av Tv P or M modes then you can see and change pretty much all settings in the menu tabs. If you get in a creative auto mode then the menu selections you can access will change.
Thanks; I think I recall seeing that when I looked at the 1.0 firmware, but I don't see the MF option any more with the 202 firmware. I've searched the whole manual and the whole menu several times.
It depends on what lens you have mounted. I have my 17-40 on my M right now, and I can't see any MF setting in the menu, however all I need to do is flip the AF/MF switch on the lens and I have manual focus. On lenses that don't have an external AF/MF switch like the little 22 f/2 lens, then an additional menu option appears in the second menu category.
EOS M will manual focus but its hidden away in the menus use it or use your lenses switch.
I assigned it to my menu so I can get to it quickly as it took me a while to find myself.
Cameron; The purpose of the combo on the EOS-m is to free up my 1DSIII for other uses and save a few pounds. See my America Cup Race entry in the sports forum.
I'm trying to use a Rokinon 8mm fisheye witch is totally manual with a 3rd party adapter and the M dose not see the lens at all. Interested in your results.
WAYCOOL wrote:
I'm trying to use a Rokinon 8mm fisheye witch is totally manual with a 3rd party adapter and the M dose not see the lens at all. Interested in your results.
Meaning the camera won't take a photo? Be sure to enable "shoot without lens" in the menus.
WAYCOOL wrote:
Darn you had my hopes up, option for MF goes away and shutter dose not release
That sucks; one use I'd have for the EOS-M/2 is the use of older manual glass designed for a similar flange focal distance, along with the Samyang manual lenses (I have the 14mm F/2.8 already).
WAYCOOL wrote:
Darn you had my hopes up, option for MF goes away and shutter dose not release
I am not sure what you are doing wrong but I have been able to use both chipped and unchipped manual focus lenses and adapters(Contax, Zeiss, Samyang, Canon FD, Nikkor) just fine with my EOS-M.
I am still using old firmware with mine because Magic Lantern has not release a newer version to support new Canon FW 2.03. But I can't imagine new Canon FW will disable this capability somehow. BTW, you do not need Magic Lantern to manual focus with EOS-M but focus-peaking and magic-zoom features are valuable tools to do manual focusing on EOS-M a lot easier.
jwin wrote:
I am not sure what you are doing wrong but I have been able to use both chipped and unchipped manual focus lenses and adapters(Contax, Zeiss, Samyang, Canon FD, Nikkor) just fine with my EOS-M.
I am still using old firmware with mine because Magic Lantern has not release a newer version to support new Canon FW 2.03. But I can't imagine new Canon FW will disable this capability somehow. BTW, you do not need Magic Lantern to manual focus with EOS-M but focus-peaking and magic-zoom features are valuable tools to do manual focusing on EOS-M a lot easier.
Apparently it was ignorance on my part possibly a contact glitch. Went into the menu system added user info changed a couple of settings not related to focus and now it works. Changed the settings back and still works, scratching head with smile on my face befuddled as to what I did
I received the adapter this morning and am in the process of evaluating the different lenses. The 100mm IS Macro works great and the AF works great. The Screen is almost imposible to see in daylight. The images are sharp and look great as normal for this lens. Looks like this camera will be one of point in the right direction, trust and shoot.
The 28-300mm works also and the images are sharp and the AF works properly at 300mm.
The 100-400 works and the AF works. The Screen will not show focus and is extremely difficult to see, although the processed 400mm image is normal when the focus is set to manual and infinity. With the 1.4 + 2.0 the image focus and IQ is OK but you can not see it on the screen so it also will be a set to infinity and shoot. I think that for my particular use I will surfice.
With firmware 2.02, I can find no setting for manual focus with or without the lens switches set to manual.
What are you planning to shoot?
