Focusing Question Live-view Canon T5i

[Lept21]

Hello, I have a problem with my Canon T5i (EOS 700D). I usually focus manually using live view and 10 times digital zoom. If you half press the shutter button in this stage, the live view shot will get stabilised so that better focusing is achieved. After I got a repair done on the camera I noticed this stabilising function is no longer working. Does anyone know how to get this working again?

[Manfred M]

With Canon, the stabilization occurs in the lens, not the camera. Do you have another lens to use to see if it is specific to one particular lens or if it is a more general issue. I don't shoot Canon, but Nikon uses a similar system and I have to make sure that the stabilization switch on the lens has been turned to the on position.

[rpcrowe]

Manfred is totally correct. The vast majority of Canon DSLR cameras get Image Stabilization as a function of the lens. The only camera that I know of which includes in-body Image Stabilization is the Canon 6D Mark-II and with that camera, the in-body stabilization is only available in video mode.

You need to switch on and off the IS on the lens using the appropriate switch on all Canon IS equipped lenses.

A lens that has a rather unusual IS function is the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II. This lens has three IS settings: Setting-1 is for non moving subjects; Setting-2 is used when you are panning, and Setting-3 is used for following erratically moving subjects. When using this last IS setting, you do not see the image stabilize in the viewfinder. Stabilization is only in effect at the moment the shutter is pressed.

I don't know if this is the only Canon lens with this type of three phase IS system. However, since the IS with your camera/lens worked previously, I would bet that Manfred nailed it with the IS switch being the culprit!

[ST1]

I agree with both Manfred and Richard having correctly identified the potential error for the OP.
Hopefully the OP. Will return and advise us on progress.

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[Lept21]

Thanks for all the answers! I tried out different lenses and it appears to be just one lens of mine that has image stabilisation. I somehow thought it was the camera body and not the lens. Also sorry for the late reply, I'm new to the forum and still have to find my way around things.

[loosecanon]

Some Canons have a menu function for stablisation that saaves battery power. You can select an option that only stablises the lens as the shutter is fired, or an option which stablises the view finder image as well when the shutter button is partiially pressed. However I don't think your camera has this option. You do need to partially press the shutter for the stablisation to cut in. Is this the reason? Otherwise look at cleaning the contacts between camera and lens.

[apersson850]

That is not a function of the camera, but of the lens.
Many stabilized lenses have two modes, normal and panning mode. But a few has a third, and that's active only during actual exposure, not when half-pressing the shutter button.
One such lens, the EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM, was mentioned above. There are a few more, like the EF 300 mm f/2.8L IS II USM, that has the same feature.