Canon EOS R + RF50mm F1.2 L USM 50mm, ISO 100, 1/200, f/5.6 One-Shot Autofocus Consequently, the absence of a dedicated AF joystick is a big deal and it makes operating the autofocus system of the EOS R in cold conditions nearly impossible. Forget about using the touchscreen to move AF points with thick winter gloves. Unfortunately, the touchscreen becomes a lot less responsive and at times downright inoperable while wearing touch-sensitive gloves. Under the same menu option, you can select how much of the screen remains active when using the screen as a touchpad (for example, I left my active touch area to the default Right side of the touchscreen so that my nose wouldn’t inadvertently move the AF points while using the EVF). This enables you to choose between “absolute” and “relative” positioning, which I have already explained earlier. Under the AF1 tab in the camera menu, you can select the touch and drag AF settings. When composing through the viewfinder, the touchscreen works like a touchpad, enabling you to move your AF points around without ever taking your eye away from the EVF. Your best bet is to use the rear touchscreen which enables you to quickly tap to reposition the AF area or drag it across the frame to your desired location. Using the four-way directional pad gives you immense control over selecting specific AF points, but with so many of them, it can take a lot of time to move your AF point across the image field. Given the absence of a dedicated AF joystick, you’ll need to use the touchscreen, control dials or the cross-keys of the four-way directional pad to move your AF points around. While this button acts like a Custom button that can be programmed to do any number of functions, I set mine to Direct AF Method Selection which enables me to quickly cycle through the different AF area modes which include Face/Tracking (with optional eye detection though this is only available in One-Shot AF), Single Area (Small and Normal), Expanded AF (Surrounded) and Zone AF (Zone, Large Zone Vertical and Large Zone Horizontal). Below the AE Lock Button is the familiar AF point selection button found on many of Canon’s DSLR bodies. Personally, I’ve chosen to assign the AE Lock button (asterisk icon) to change between One-Shot AF and AI-Servo. Canon expects you to use either the M-Fn button, the Quick Menu or to customize a button to switch between One-Shot AF and AI-Servo. The Canon EOS R doesn’t have a dedicated button to change autofocus modes. Notably, the focus is said to work down to -6 EV when used with a f/1.2 lens and -3 EV with a f/2.8 lens and Canon claims that many adapted EF lenses should focus seamlessly when used on the EOS R. The EOS R features Canon’s Dual Pixel on-sensor autofocus system with over 5655 AF points covering 88% frame horizontally and 100% vertically. The sheer number of focus points is especially attractive when compared to Canon’s full-frame DSLR’s which have most of their AF points clustered closer to the center of the frame. With the release of the EOS R, it was up to Canon to provide an autofocus system that could rival that of their DSLR bodies as well as match the performance of its mirrorless peers. This status quo has slowly eroded with Sony leading the charge especially the A7 III and A9 – both of which feature fantastic, high-performance autofocus systems. In the past, a big knock-on mirrorless cameras was their limited focusing capabilities compared to the best DSLR offerings.
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