Canon EOS40D " How To " Auto-focus Live View

[harcosparky]

Anyone with a 40D use Live View?

How do you activate Auto Focus in Live View???

 

[PeteB]

No idea.

But plenty of info here for you...

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=428535

 

[M@lew]

Activate it in the custom function. It tells you exactly how to in the manual.

 

[AlaskaMoose]

Anyone with a 40D use Live View?

How do you activate Auto Focus in Live View???

Manual focus is best for accuracy on macro photography, but since you want to know about auto-focusing, here it goes:

1. Turn the AF/M switch on the lens to AF (this is very important)
2. Activate auto-focus using "C. Fn. III-06 AF During Live View Shooting. Choose to "anable" this feature (in the Menu)
3. Press the AF-DRIVE button and use the Main Dial to make sure the auto-focus mode has been set to One-Shot (on the LCD screen)

 

[harcosparky]

Manual focus is best for accuracy on macro photography, but since you want to know about auto-focusing, here it goes:

1. Turn the AF/M switch on the lens to AF (this is very important)
2. Activate auto-focus using "C. Fn. III-06 AF During Live View Shooting. Choose to "anable" this feature (in the Menu)
3. Press the AF-DRIVE button and use the Main Dial to make sure the auto-focus mode has been set to One-Shot (on the LCD screen)

Thanks but we're not using Live View for macro photography, and not sure that we would use it for that though I guess it would come in handy. At the time we dug around in the CF menu's and figured out what had to be done.

I own a 30D and a 5D, it was my brother who bought the 40D.

After playing with his 40D for a day, I could almost buy one .... give my 30D away, and the 5D would see less use.

This 40D is impressive, and putting live-view in it is a big plus.