Atomos Shinobi II offers touch screen AF for R6 MKII

[Ty Harper]

Wow, so Matthew Allard over at Newsshooter is reporting that the Shinobi MKII will have a new FW update that allows it to do touch focus AF with the Canon R6 MKII (among other non-Canon cameras).

No other Canon cam is on the list yet, but this all seems promising.

Here's an excerpt from the original Atomos press release:

"At IBC, Atomos (Hall 11, D25) announces major new functionality for Shinobi II, the amazingly successful Photo | Video Monitor. Users get a world’s first: on-monitor touch auto focus and focus subject tracking, in both photo and video camera modes, and it’s a free update for all existing users. The first camera models to be supported are from Sony (A7 MkIV), Canon (R6 Mark II), Panasonic (S5 II) and Fujifilm (GFX100 II). Nikon is also now supported for photo and video modes, with auto focus and focus subject tracking to follow in future updates."

Sorry if this has already been posted but don't recall seeing it. 

[j_one]

Cool. Personally if they end up adding El Zone to this monitor, I will consider picking it up.

[Ty Harper]

3 hours ago, j_one said:

Cool. Personally if they end up adding El Zone to this monitor, I will consider picking it up.

El Zone is apparently included as well

[eatstoomuchjam]

You might also want to consider whether the convenience of touching your production monitor to choose focus points is worth supporting a shitty company like Atomos.

[mercer]

Nobody seems to have an issue with DJi, so why care about Atomos?

[eatstoomuchjam]

Nice whataboutism.