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    Eye Detect AF - EOS R

    Hi all,

    Has anyone truly mastered the Eye Detect autofocus feature on the Canon EOS R?

    I'm finding it to be a bit of a hit and miss to get it working in the first place.

    If my understanding is correct, and I have seen this working on my camera a few times, there should be a WHITE BOX tracking a face, and within this box is a SMALLER box tracking the eyeball of the subject.

    I got that working last night!! and without changing a damn thing this morning, it went back to just tracking little green squares!

    Current settings on AF1 are:

    AF operation - SERVO AF (have also tried reverting to ONE SHOT, no success. Mind you this is firmware 1.2.0 so it should work either way)
    AF method - AF; face; square bracket thingy
    AF frame size - Normal
    Eye Detection AF - Enable
    Continuous AF - Enable
    Touch & drag AF settings - Disable


    Why does it behave so inconsistently and what am I doing wrong? It's disappointing how I can't find it to be intuitive, especially as this feature was the main reason why I bought this camera.

    Hope to hear from someone who has this experience.



    Cheers,
    Shaun
    Last edited by st87; 23-05-2019 at 10:57pm.

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    I haven't used eye detect yet, but have you checked that it is designed to work with "Continuous AF - Enable" as I believe that when 1st released the EOS R could not do this?

    I think a recent Firmware upgrade "might" have solved this so check your FW.

    Cheers

    Dennis
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    Sadly, my "mastery" of eye-detect AF on the EOS R has consisted of figuring out how to switch it off so that the camera doesn't do weird and unexpected things when I'm using it for landscapes. In particular, eye-AF nukes the artificial horizon function - something I use for nearly every shot and depend on. But you knew that.
    Tony

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