Millismote Loc: Massachusetts

does anyone know how to set back button focus on the Canon M50?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This should do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giYkmbm_2Ow

EDIT: See if you can open your eyes that wide and not blink during this video.

Also -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s3xskDyeNg

Millismote Loc: Massachusetts

Thanks Jerry, I have seen all of these videos and none of them are using the M50. I have gone through all the menu items and can't find one that separates the focus from the shutter button. The instruction book does not mention back button focus.

DwsPV Loc: South Africa

I found this:

Canon has also provided plenty of flexibility for customising the controls to suit your own needs. For example, you can set up ‘back-button focusing’, with autofocus initiated by the AEL control on the camera’s shoulder rather than the shutter release. In addition, six other buttons – M.Fn and video record on the top-plate, and the four buttons of the d-pad – can each be reassigned to any of 20 other functions.

On this web page (just above the Viewfinder and screen section)

https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/canon-eos-m50

Millismote Loc: Massachusetts

I don't find a AEL button on the shoulder of my Canon M50. Could you provide a step by step procedure for setting up back button focus on the M50 please.

imagesintime Loc: small town, mid-America

go to "Assigning Functions to Buttons" in your manual or google "Assigning Functions to Buttons on the canon m50"

spaceylb Loc: Long Beach, N.Y.

Custom function 5. choose #1 Maybe..???

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

The AE Lock button is the * button.

This is the "old school" way of doing BBF on Canon cameras, on various models before they added the AF-On button to many of the DSLRs.

I don't have an M50 and their manual doesn't help.

I also don't have an M5 yet, but am planning to get one and the manual for it may help. Here's what the M5 manual shows:

Go into your menu, navigate to custom functions, then look under "other". There choose "assign button functions". This should give a display of the camera. If I understand it correctly, you can then navigate to EITHER the shutter release button OR the * button and click to enter that. Here I think you'll have four possible choices. The letters before the / in the option description indicate what the shutter button will do, while the letters after the / tell us what the * button will do.

1. AF/AE Lock.... Shutter button half press starts focus, meter & IS, full press releases shutter/* button provides AE Lock. (Default)
2. AE Lock/AF.... Shutter button half press starts meter, IS with AE Lock/* button starts & runs AF (set AF to AI Servo).
3. AF/AF Lock, no AE Lock... shutter button half press starts AF, meter & IS/* button provides AF Lock without AE Lock.
4. AE/AF, no AE Lock... shutter button half press starts meter & IS/* button starts & runs AF (set AF to AI Servo).

This sequence is a little different from what was on my older DSLRs and SLRs.

Option 1 is the default setup.

One choice that reassigns starting and running AF to the * button is Option 2. This provides BBF, but IMO it's usually not a good idea to have AE Lock on every shot you take, which is what this option forces. In fact, in my experience AE Lock is a fairly rarely used feature... usually only helpful in certain situations.

Option 3 is actually sort of opposite of the way much BBF is done. With that setting, half press of the shutter release still starts AF, but AF is stopped and locked when the * button is pressed.

I used the equivalent of Option 4. That entirely removes AF start & run from the shutter release button, reassigns that to the * button, so it's no longer available to set AE Lock. Instead of having to go into the menu and switch things around on the rare occasion when I wanted AE Lock, I simply made note of the exposure settings and switched to fully manual exposure mode, then set everything myself (including no Auto ISO... which wasn't even an option then). This gives the same effect as AE Lock.

You will probably find the same in your M50 menu. I hope so!