Lens reg

Does anyone know how I can register my lens info on the EOS utility software?

I have a new 1.8 85mm that I want my 5D3 camera to recognize for adjusting the chromatic aberation etc.

Hope this makes sense!

Connect the camera, select peripheral illumination and add or remove lenses from the list you'll see. There's a manual available for EOS utility. Describes this and many other things perfectly. If you don't have it, the manual can be downloaded too.

Thanks. I have plugged my camera into the computer and started the EOS utility but see no list. Most things are greyed out!

Any suggestions?

Terry.

Greenjacket6202 wrote in post #14824687
Thanks. I have plugged my camera into the computer and started the EOS utility but see no list. Most things are greyed out!

Any suggestions?

Terry.

Turn on the camera.

I have re-installed the utility disc and it has cured the problem!
Thank you for your help.

Terry.

I've never registered anything in Eos Utilities, yet it seems it and DPP seem to know automatically. Are you sure the lens does not register itself?

No, they don't, but the camera comes pre-loaded with a number of lens registrations. If your lenses are all within the default set, you need to do nothing at all.

Now with firmware 2.0.0, the camera is able to do more lens-related tricks than before. Up to 1.2.5, the only lens correction available in-camera was correction of vignetting. Now distortion and chromatic abberation can also be corrected. Not on the fly, but in later RAW -> jpeg conversions. Thus more lens data is needed in the camera. The firmware update to 2.0.0 contains such lens data, but again only for the default lens set. If you use other lenses with your camera (the EF 70-200 mm f/2.8L IS II USM is one example of such a lens), you need to add it to the lens data in the camera, or the camera's lens correction features will not work for that lens.
Note that you have to update EOS Utility to the latest version, right now 2.11.4, or it will not contain this additional data either.

Anders,

I do have a 70-200 mark 2 and have to admit I'd not noticed the lack of the white lens symbol top right of the thumbnail.

I will have to look when I'm next in DPP.

No, I don't think you will, since then you are looking in DPP, which has it's own set of lens data.

But put that lens on your camera, go to the first shooting menu and select the peripheral correction item (second last). Does it say that lens data is available for that lens?

Anders,

You mean in Eos Utilities I imagine? Sorry, but I only ever use it to upload images so just don't know how to find the first shooting menu, never mind the peripheral correction dialogue.

No, I mean in the camera. First red menu page, sixth item from the top.

First red menu only has 5 items in it?

Thats the menu with half the camera and one dot?

But I have managed to find the lens list in Eos Utilities and you were of course absolutely right. The lenses were listed, but not ticked and a load of lenses I will never own were ticked - but not any more! So my thanks for that.

Sorry, you are using a 5D Mark III. I was thinking about a different camera. Peripheral illumination correction, wherever it is.