I’m after some help. I’m using a Canon 14-35mm lens on a R5 body and I can’t get the focus ring to work in MF mode. Switching the lens from AF to MF (using the button on the lens) the camera recognises the difference and I can autofocus in AF mode and in MF mode it shows peak focusing and the manual focus tool but rotating the focus ring does nothing. I know there are some lenses that need certain settings to enable digital focus with a control ring (my 16mm lens needs this) but the 14-35 has an AF/MF switch so shouldn’t need this. Is there a setting I’m missing. I’ve been looking into this for a while and have tried rebooting the camera, deleting custom settings and I’m now wondering whether I just have a faulty lens. What am I doing wrong?
https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/1/0300042281/02/rf14-35f4lisusm-im2-eng.pdf Camera should be in one shot mode, any settings like disable after one shot disable in AF will cause MF not to work. https://cam.start.canon/hy/C004/manual/html/UG-04_AF-Drive_0110.html
Thanks for that information. Unfortunately it hasn’t worked for me. I’m mainly shooting single shots or 2 sec delays and I tried all the options for “disable after one shot” etc and still can’t get manual focus to work. I tried it with a complete reset of all settings (other than menu configuration) and still no luck. any other thoughts? Appreciate your help. Thanks Darren
No other thoughts off hand no, sadly I cant recreate as I don't have any of this gear. I can say that the camera instructions we clear that you cant use any of those extra focus settings or it disables manual focus, and the lens manual says you can only use t when the switch is selected and you are using only basic one shot. I did read mention of someone saying their back button focus also inhibited this from being an option. I suspect that any R series camera is going to have the same limitations in manual focus, documentation seems to be mainly on the camera body side.
Found this video which mostly aligns but does seem like it may contradict a thing or two I saw mentioned about focusing by other R users.... Again, I'd expect it to work if focus mode is one shot, camera set to manual in focus menu, and the lens is set to manual. Keep in mind that the ring is fully electronic, so it needs the camera to provide power and allow the manual focus. It also means a lot of things could go wrong down to a bad connection.
I do use a back focus button so I might try removing that but clearing all the settings should have done that anyway when I reset the camera but I’ll give it a try. Thanks again.
