Canon 5D Mk IV - Autofocus: Part 3/4 - Prioritizing Your Autofocus Options
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The Release and Focus options allow the user to configure the timing of autofocus in the 5D Mark IV in Servo mode. Learn what the different options mean and how I set up my own camera and why.
Just super, i have watched most videos on the Canon 5Ds, This is by far the best by a mile.
Just wanted to say thank you for this 5D Mark IV autofocus video series. I'm rather inconsistent with my photography hobby, so I've watched this series several times now. After an unintended break from photography, I always need a refresher! Great videos! Thanks again.
Explained better than official Canon channel... thanks mate!
Thanks for that feedback!
Great Video. I just got a 5D MK4 and these videos have made it so much easier to use the focus system on the camera. Glad i stumbled onto your videos. Your style of explaining is awesome. Bless you !!
Thanks for the feedback King Kong
Perhaps the best instructor on RUclips. Thank you.
Thanks so much Jim Keener :-)
Great video. I really wanted to hear an indepth explanation on this. It is sometimes hard to get when just reading. Thanks for this great series.
THANK YOU for explaining the focus system. I was about to give up.
Very good, clear and precise narration. Thank you!!
Your videos are great! Thank you. I get my new 5d mkiv tomorrow, and feel I have a great understanding of the af system! Thanks again!!!
Thanks for that feedback, hope the camera does well for you!
Please keep making videos! Awesome tutorial. Thank you!
Will keep on trying, thanks for the feedback!
Another good one! I have my back button's where if I hold them down they will choose a scenario, cluster, and servo. I love that feature of the 5D Mark IV that we didn't have before. You should show that! There is a good video on RUclips about it called, "back button focus on steroids."
That is a good one nagol 5178, I might include that in an upcoming video or a similar use.
Excellent video, really informative.
Thank you, your videos are very informative and well explained
Thank you a lot Grant! This is helping me out loads!!
Thank you for this video series! They’re so informative
Best advice ever
Very Interesting Information 👍 thanks
another winner, thanks Grant
I have found that once the camera has acquired a subject and locked, the frame rate difference becomes negligible below 10 fps. Canon’s telephoto L lenses can focus fast enough that can I set both settings for Focus Priority with a 7D2 without any significant difference.
I agree with you there, although on the 7D Mark 2, there is less of a slowdown as compared to the 5D Mark 4, and the cameras dont seem to all respond identically when it comes to Focus and Release setup, particularly the intermediate settings :-)
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Thanks Grant, another great vid!
Outstanding videos -- thank you!
Superb explanation
Hi Grant great vid thanks :)
Great video and explanation thank you 🙏I have a question have you had any issue with inconsistent focus? I just sent my 5d IV back to Canon yesterday because I was getting soft focus on a lot of images. Tried micro adjustment but that didn’t seem to help at all. Focus is tack sharp when using the live view mode. I only have an issue when using OVF to focus. Hoping it’s just a calibration issue and when it returns all will be well. Thanks for the video
Hi Michael, glad the video was useful. I cannot say that I have had any focus inconsistencies with the 5D Mark IV that where out of the ordinary. We use ours 99.9 percent in Ai Servo. And we don't expect to get every shot properly focused but some of that is down to our less than perfect technique, as well as how much subject motion there is, and other focus system challenges involved. But, you did the right thing with checking using Live View, so hopefully it gets sorted out...
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Thanks Grant
I seek your advice in selecting a camera between d850 and 5dm4. Please guide me if video is also a priority apart from photography. Regards
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Great video, I'm a wildlife photographer too, so is it a good idea to put both 1st and 2nd image priorities to equal ? Specially shooting tigers ?
Its more about your own preference, and your particular technique, as well as the speed of the things you photographing. 1 and 2nd image to equal will give an even balance and perhaps modify one or the other if you feel initial AF acquisition is too slow or not accurate enough?
@@grantatkinson8108 thanks !
Great and informative.
thank you
Thanks for all the help Grant. Unfortunately my 5Dm4 is still not giving me the sharpness of the some of the Nikons and Sonys. How do you get that last 1% of sharpness that you need?
That isn't easy to answer remotely for me :-) as there are so many variables. Sharpness is affected by many things besides the camera sensor and autofocus. That would include the lenses you may be using, your processing steps if you are taking raw images, as well as whether you are comparing sharpness on a completed physical print on paper to another print on paper of the same size. If you are comparing sharpness on a computer screen, are you using the same screen, the same magnification and also making allowance for different camera resolutions and sensor sizes?
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Thanks for the response Grant. I am on a number of social media pages for amateur wildlife photographers and it’s hard not to notice the some of the other pics. They seem to be achieving a level of sharpness and clarity that has evaded me. I will add this however: while waiting for a distant perched eagle to fly, I decided to try a few different settings. When I used A+ (scene intelligent auto) I had greater sharpness than I ever get when the bird is on that branch. So I’m trying to figure how A+ produced a sharper image than my usual setting:
M- 1/1000, F 7.1, ISO auto, case 2, one shot. I use a sigma 500/4.0 sports. That’s serious glass and a lot of the people putting up better shots are using the sigma 150-60O- which costs about 1/7 as much as my lens. I need to raise my BIF game! Any guidance from a pro is greatly appeciated
@@gwag24 I have not used A+ on my 5Dmk4 I would check a few things if possible. Is it focusing using Ai Servo or One Shot. Typically its easier to get sharp shots of moving things with Ai Servo Focus for most people but you can manage it with One Shot. And then the parameters in the AF Cases are applicable to Ai Servo focusing I believe not One Shot focusing. Because they are all things related to moving subjects or moving obstacles etc. Another thing that i would want to find out is whether you are working with processing your own RAW photos or using the Canon jpeg images out of camera as a base. Its my experience with Canon jpeg images that come from camera or even via RAW capture and processing with Canon DPP software seem to have a lot of noise reduction applied to them even if I turn off the in-camera noise reduction on the 5DMk4, it is obvious that there is still some of it being applied to jpegs. That noise reduction robs a whole level of sharpness from the image. Of course i do use noise reduction but I shoot RAW images and on my computer using Adobe Lightroom, I only apply the noise reduction to the actual parts of the image where its needed, and usually not on my birds feathers or fur.
Sorry, just saw this 6 months later. Have you checked the actual focus accuracy between the Sigma and 5D4. I have a very good 400mm sigma which finally gave me accurate focus when I micro adjusted the camera to this specific lens. It took quite a ot of adjustment. My canon lenses never required the adjustment.
great
Here I am, contemplating getting a Zeiss Milvus 50mm manual focus.
Hi Grant, i follow all yr u-tube publishing,
When will you do something on the 1DX MKII ??
Regards
Colin
Hi Colin, thanks for your support. 1DXmk 2 maybe only much later this year. I have to do the videos in- between my photo safaris unfortunately and that is a bit limiting in how much I can get done :-)
what tripod are you using?
Nice pic !
Where have been Grant?!?
Busy guiding photosafaris for wildlife, Vaughn Felix :-)