fantastic video mate - thank you - question - how do you turn off the canon R7 eye detection for the View finder?

Glad it helped you out!

I am glad you like them I really try not to add a bunch of stuff ontop of it.

Great to hear! Having everything in the view finder is one of the best parts of the R.

For real manuals are so dry and not very fun. And they don't have any practial aplicaiton section lol

You are welcome Melissa! Enjoy your customizations :)

Add more light or bump up the ISO. The camera does well up to 3200 iso if there is some light on the subject. Lower aperture is good as well.

The button has been switched. you have to remap the button to its original purpose'

A quick fix that may work for you is to press info info info.

But maybe more ergo would be to use the touch and drag feature when using the EVF. I don't use that anymore because I disabled the auto EVF to rear screen sensor.

I personally recommend using the focus button as a toggle for ISO so it isn't available for other functions. But good to know!

Exactly; the top dial is the one that moves the AF point up and down, while the front dial moves left and right as shown in the video. I personally use the 4 way controller to move AF point on my R, while on my R6 there's the joystick which is the best solution overall.

Exposure simulation helped the most but it doesnt seem to give me a real representation with apature. What I see in my evf isn't the same image when it comes to apature settings. Is there a way to change this?

I am not sure if there is a way to change that. Are you often shooting at different apparatuses? Adjusting the brightness of the EVF might also help.

@@DanielWhiteWithCanon I looked into it a little more and found out that I needed to program a button to "DOF preview". The eos r keeps apature at its widest until the shutter is released, this way the AF has as much light as possible to work with. Now that I customized that button, my problem is solved.

subash sharma yes it will work all the time.

Is this jittery look in your footage as well. There is a setting that allows you to save power by lowering the refresh rate of the view finder this might be part of your problem It is inview finder settings. The camera only has a refresh rate of max 60 frames a second so that can look very jittery for fast moving objects but there is no option to increase this and make it feel smoother.

Yup me too, makes it really tricky to shoot moving objects (my business is young children portraiture and they move all over the place). The VF seems to stall/lock about half a second after the shot and you lose track of your live subject. The only workaround I've found is to touch the shutter button quickly after a shot which seems to keep the view 'live'. Really annoying compared to optical vf which is always live but will have to live with it until a firmware update or something. Very surprised this isn't all over the forums, it must be maddening trying to shoot single shot sports photos.

Hey Debbie there are two different “menus” one for the VF and one for the back screen. Use the VF and press info info info and it should go away.

@@DanielWhiteWithCanon Well, that didn't work either. When I held it up to my eye while pressing info, I got the 'level', but the histogram was still up in the corner. It did not go away. It wasn't there earlier today, but it is now. Not sure what I changed, but that histogram is not going away.

Hi Kensio. Not sure what your asking I probably need a little more context.

Yes, this indicates Exposure Simulation is enabled. This is discussed at 4:25.

It is possible but unlikely. Have you gone into the settings and tried to customize them?

@@DanielWhiteWithCanon I just reset that section of the screen and took it off eye af to see my level. So everything all good. 😂

@@m77ast Tight glad it wasn't something more complicated lol

@@DanielWhiteWithCanon me too 😂😂 - thanks though for the video. That camera EOS R is awesoooommmeee 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@m77ast The EOS R is a huge step up from a DSLR! What are you shooting the most?

For the back screen? Not sure I understand but an easy way is to simply turn the camera face in. There is also an option in the wrentch menue to turn of the back screen and only use the viewfinder.

If you are using the view finder you will need to press info a few times to toggle it. Hope that helps.

Just researched it and see that histogram only works in manual when exposure simulation is turned on. But it does not show in the viewfinder

I don't think you can unless you deselect all of the grids and information.

Noted thanks.