70D going into "P" mode when Live view used

[rottielover]

I'm using BYE 3.1.11 with a Canon 70D 

I have the dial on the camera set to "M" mode.   When using BYE things are fine so long as I am using exposure controls.  But if I go into Frame and Focus, or Planetary modes using the live view, the exposure controls can't be used and the camera goes into "P" mode as shown in the camera status top left.   Let me know if you need the logs or not, I can toss them up on dropbox.

[rottielover]

Good News!    Factory reset seems to have done the trick.  Everything in BYE is working again after I went back through and changed the camera body settings to what I wanted.

[rottielover]

realized I was a couple versions back, so I updated to the 14 release.  I'm leaving for a dark site in a couple hours,  I'll let you know how it goes tonight.

[astroman133]

Isn't Program mode selected from the rotary knob on the camera?

[rottielover]

That's why this one is strange.  They physical knob is set to M, but when I use live view, BYE will go from M to P and I won't be able to control the exposure settings to see anything for live view or focusing.   I've been using the SNAP option to focus as a work around.

 

[astroman133]

What if you change the rotary knob from M to some other setting and then back to M?

[admin]

Send me the log file.  These is no function in BYE that sets the dial to P.  This is odd for sure.

 

[rottielover]

I grabbed the entire log folder and zip'd it.   Located here:  Logs Zip

These are from last night's session using the .14 release.  I didn't spend very much time in frame and focus though, just long enough for the issue to occur.  It was a pretty nice dark site night and I know about where my telescope focus point is so I just got to imaging pretty quick.    If these aren't useful I can hookup the camera today and generate new logs. 

[astroman133]

One thing that I noticed is that your LiveView focus mode is set to Face+Tracking. This setting has prevented others from using 5X Zoom for F&F or Planetary. While this does not seem to be related to your issue, I thought that I would mention it.

2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  - Registered Property LiveviewAutoFocusMode = 'Live - Face' 
2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  -    [1, Live]
2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  -    [2, Live - Face]
2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  -    [3, Live - Multizone]
2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  - Registered Property LiveviewZoom         = 'Not supported' 
 

I am curious if choosing the Flexzone Multi option changes the reported symptoms.

 

[rottielover]

On 8/27/2017 at 0:22 PM, astroman133 said:

One thing that I noticed is that your LiveView focus mode is set to Face+Tracking. This setting has prevented others from using 5X Zoom for F&F or Planetary. While this does not seem to be related to your issue, I thought that I would mention it.

2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  - Registered Property LiveviewAutoFocusMode = 'Live - Face' 
2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  -    [1, Live]
2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  -    [2, Live - Face]
2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  -    [3, Live - Multizone]
2017-08-27 01:21:37,185 [Main] INFO  - Registered Property LiveviewZoom         = 'Not supported' 
 

I am curious if choosing the Flexzone Multi option changes the reported symptoms.

 

I'll give this a try,  thanks!

[rottielover]

Unfortunately no-go.  I did recently update the camera body to the 1.1.2 firmware,  I'm not really sure if that has anything to do with it.

I'm testing at my dining table now and now I'm in a state where AF Method is grayed out on the camera, and F&R in BYE is not displaying anything.

I'm going to try factory resetting the camera body, maybe something got messed up with the firmware upgrade

[astroman133]

Interesting. Thanks for the followup!

[rottielover]

15 hours ago, rottielover said:

Good News!    Factory reset seems to have done the trick.  Everything in BYE is working again after I went back through and changed the camera body settings to what I wanted.

Just a follow up in case of folks finding this thread down the road. I think I'm going to start recommending to people that they need to run a "factory reset" of a camera, then upgrade firmware, run another factory reset after firmware, then setup the camera how you want it. 

I'm not sure if that will hold true in all situations, but in my case it would seem that by not doing this, the firmware upgrade tried to retain my custom settings, and in doing so something went wrong. But logicically they probably test firmware on devices with factory settings, so following the workflow above to upgrade should be sound advice. 

 

Clear Skies !!!

[astroman133]

When I was at the ASTRON convention two weeks ago, Canon was offering to inspect, clean, and upgrade your EOS camera for free. I let them do this for me. I was a bit worried because I planned to use that camera only a few days later to shoot the eclipse. I do not know their procedure for doing the firmware upgrade, but my settings were preserved and the camera worked fine when shooting the eclipse.