Eye Control AF: help required.

[Del Paso]

Hi happy R5 II owners!
I have an issue with mine, certainly not the camera's fault, but mine...
I did carefully calibrate the Eye Control AF, several times, it precisely follows eye direction.
Yet, despite having registered calibration, and having set EC AF on "on", the camera doesn't focus where the pointer is located, but in the usual central manner. This means the EC AF has no real function. I've tried spot, extended, full frame AF, nothing helps.
What do I miss?
Thanks for any suggestion!

 

[OldDudePhotog]

Asking the silly question, you are half-pressing the shutter button to focus, right?

 

[P-visie]

I do not want to offend you: Have you done all the steps in the manual?

Canon : Product Manual : EOS R5 Mark II : Using Eye Control

I’ve once again tested this morning and the eye control just works. Enable it in the menu and the pointer appears in the viewfinder and it follows my eye.

 

[OldDudePhotog]

Another thing to check is to make sure you have not changed the shutter button function to where it only releases the shutter instead of half-press focus/full press release. If you have done that you would need to press the focus button in order for it to focus. If you are enabling eye control and simply looking around the scene without pressing any buttons, the camera will not focus on anything you are looking at until you engage the focus call of the camera (half-press shutter or AF button).

 

[EricN]

Another thing to check is to make sure you have not changed the shutter button function to where it only releases the shutter instead of half-press focus/full press release. If you have done that you would need to press the focus button in order for it to focus. If you are enabling eye control and simply looking around the scene without pressing any buttons, the camera will not focus on anything you are looking at until you engage the focus call of the camera (half-press shutter or AF button).

I forgot about the ability to do this set up.

 

[Kit.]

You probably already know it, but it's still worth mentioning in this thread: eye control AF on R5 II does not select a point to focus on. It selects one of the subjects in the frame recognized by the camera AI.

 

[neuroanatomist]

You probably already know it, but it's still worth mentioning in this thread: eye control AF on R5 II does not select a point to focus on. It selects one of the subjects in the frame recognized by the camera AI.

I had thought that was the case for the R3, turns out it will drop a focus point under the eye control marker anywhere in the frame if AF is on the shutter half-press.

 

[meywd]

You probably already know it, but it's still worth mentioning in this thread: eye control AF on R5 II does not select a point to focus on. It selects one of the subjects in the frame recognized by the camera AI.

I had thought that was the case for the R3, turns out it will drop a focus point under the eye control marker anywhere in the frame if AF is on the shutter half-press.

I am really surprised they changed the implementation, yes selecting a subject reduces the chance of error when a subject exists, but when not, it’s nice to have that focus point.