Ken Durling wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:19:10 +0100, you wrote: > > > Just tap the up arrow twice! Am I missing something? > >> > >hmm, don't have the camera at hand but I'm sure I tried > >"the normal way" of going beyond the outer focus point, > >but with no success. > > Well, that's curious. I have my CF 11/12 @ 1 and it works for me. > No, mine works differently. I checked again and the behaviour is this: - Whenever CF11=1, I cannot get back into auto focus point selection by just pressing the arrow keys. This does work when CF11=0. - When CF12=0, pressing the focussing pt. selection button switches back to auto selection mode. - When CF12=1, pressing the focussing pt. selection button selects the center focussing point and goes into manual mode.
Maybe there is a different software revision in my camera? Has anybody found evidence of such silent updates in EOS cameras before? Normally one would expect such things to happen but I never saw different behaviour between samples of the same model myself. Anyway, the behaviour I get is not a problem, I think I will set CF12=0 and that's it. What bothers me a little is the fact that there seems to be no quick way to get into manual focus pt selection from ECF mode. Pressing the focussing pt selection button in ECF mode just shows the selected cal channel. Selecting the center pt could be more useful as an emergency override when ECF fails. I think Canon should really listen to their customers and develop a camera where all knobs are freely programmable. As there is little technical progress in the analog photo technology itself, they could at least do something to improve the handling of their cameras. There is enough room for improvement, IMO, even with technology available today. No need to intentionally cripple the mid range bodies (spot meter) to set them apart from the top of the line. But of course, that is cheaper in terms of development cost... br/Stefan. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
