100mm Issue

[JDMonroe]

Greetings all,

I have the RF 100mm lens and have experienced some issues and I am unsure if these are things I can control, or not.

First is when I select manual focus, set the focus to 1.4:1 and then turn the camera off, it resets the focus point back to infinity. The EF version remained where I had moved the focus distance. I don't understand why this is not staying at 1.4.

Second, is there a way to change the number of times you have to turn the ring to move across the full focus plain? I counted 7 turns to move it from infinity to 1.4 and with it resetting to infinity every time I turn my R5 off and back on, this is a lot of time to get the focusing position back where I need it for shooting macro.

I spent some time on the phone with Canon this morning to no avail.

Regards,


J

 

[Jake Shoots Birds]

I don't have the lens but I believe there's a menu setting somewhere that allows you to set whether or not a lens returns to infinity on power off or it retains focus. If you were on the phone with Canon I would think they'd know whether or not this is the case, but since I'm fairly new to the R5 I'd have to have read it somewhere recently for it to be in my head. LOL