Canon R5 II Locked out of continuous shooting while focus bracketing

[Rikwithak]

Got my R5II this week and took it out to do some product shots earlier. I had focus bracketing setup and was using my Godox V860iii. First half of the day went great, was able to get some solid sequences and the camera was having no problem shooting high speed continuous with the flash for 9 frames with an interval setting of 4. Later on in the day I got locked out of choosing high speed or any continuous shooting mode for that matter. I’ve trouble shot everything. Reset all the settings, updated the firmware, etc etc. I’m stumped. Has anyone else had this issue? Want continuous shooting for efficiency and also potentially doing some macro shots handheld down the line. Help please!

 

[PKM-UK]

Hi Rik,

I don't do focus bracketing, or use flash (so, not a great start on providing an informed reply!), but my first thought is did the battery fall below the charge level required for these 'higher functions', or did you change to a non-P battery (same issue)?

Not sure if this helps you, but there you go.

Phil

 

[Rikwithak]

Hi Rik,

I don't do focus bracketing, or use flash (so, not a great start on providing an informed reply!), but my first thought is did the battery fall below the charge level required for these 'higher functions', or did you change to a non-P battery (same issue)?

Not sure if this helps you, but there you go.

Phil

I thought that may be the problem but I charged the battery at home and still same issue. High speed continuous shooting works just fine in any other mode just no longer when focus bracketing is enabled

 

[StevenAunan]

Later on in the day I got locked out of choosing high speed or any continuous shooting mode for that matter. I’ve trouble shot everything. Reset all the settings, updated the firmware, etc etc. I’m stumped. Has anyone else had this issue? Want continuous shooting for efficiency and also potentially doing some macro shots handheld down the line.

I'm no focus bracket expert, but I have the R5II, Godox TT350, and RF 100mm macro, so I did some indoor testing after reading your post. Can you clarify a few things?

First, when enabling focus bracketing, the camera disables all continuous shooting modes: H+, H, or Low speed. Are you saying these options WERE available earlier in the day?

Second, when you say "interval setting of 4" does that mean the "flash interval" setting in the focus bracketing menu was set to 4 seconds?

And finally, what exposure mode are you using? I use FV and set the shutter speed to match the flash sync speed range. (The manual says the flash sync shutter speed can be 1/8000 with Electronic Shutter and High Speed Sync turned on.)

For the following image, I used number of shots = 10 and flash interval = 0. Although the "continuous shooting" modes are disabled, the shutter still fires as fast as my shutter speed setting allows (e.g. 1/60 is slower than 1/200). Any other flash interval setting delays the shutter between shots by X number of seconds.

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[Rikwithak]

I'm no focus bracket expert, but I have the R5II, Godox TT350, and RF 100mm macro, so I did some indoor testing after reading your post. Can you clarify a few things?

First, when enabling focus bracketing, the camera disables all continuous shooting modes: H+, H, or Low speed. Are you saying these options WERE available earlier in the day?

Second, when you say "interval setting of 4" does that mean the "flash interval" setting in the focus bracketing menu was set to 4 seconds?

And finally, what exposure mode are you using? I use FV and set the shutter speed to match the flash sync speed range. (The manual says the flash sync shutter speed can be 1/8000 with Electronic Shutter and High Speed Sync turned on.)

For the following image, I used number of shots = 10 and flash interval = 0. Although the "continuous shooting" modes are disabled, the shutter still fires as fast as my shutter speed setting allows (e.g. 1/60 is slower than 1/200). Any other flash interval setting delays the shutter between shots by X number of seconds.


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Yes that is correct, I was able to shoot continuous high speed with focus bracketing enabled. The flash interval was set to 0. The interval in the focus bracketing menu was set to 4. Here’s a composite of one of the sequences of 9 shots I was able to get during the first part of the day. Probably got around 10 sequences before somehow the high speed continuous options were locked out. Not sure if it’s a setting I changed or what happened.

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[StevenAunan]

Yes that is correct, I was able to shoot continuous high speed with focus bracketing enabled.

Yesterday I had the shutter set to Mechanical. When I enabled focus bracketing, the camera changed the shutter to Electronic and disabled the high speed shutter options.

Today I started with shutter set to Electronic, turned on focus bracketing, and the camera STILL disabled the high speed shutter options. BUT the shutter fired much faster with the flash interval set to 0. (My TT350 flash only fired quickly three times, and then slowed down for the remaining shots. I'm sure the V860iii delivers more flashes at high speed.)

The manual does not say that focus bracketing disables high speed shutter, but that is definitely happening to me. At the same time, manually changing from Mechanical to Electronic shutter seemed to result in faster shooting ... even though the camera automatically switches to ES when focus bracketing is enabled.