Can the Canon 6D Live View magnification go beyond 10x?

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On a Canon 6D, Live View focus magnification cycles through normal view, 5x, and 10x. Is there any way—through camera settings or firmware—to increase Live View magnification beyond 10x for more precise manual focusing?

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Unfortunately it is not possible to increase the magnification to more than 10x with the official firmware of the Canon 6D. The only possible are actually 1x, 5x and 10x.

I'm not even sure if it is possible to create a firmware capable of magnifying it even further. Looking at the resources at Magic Lantern here and here (an unofficial firmware for the Canon DSLR:s) it seems like the DIGIC has calls for the different levels of magnifications. If these are implemented deep in hardware it may very well be impossible to create new levels of magnification performance wise even if a custom firmware is used. I have however not exerted myself to read a lot about these functions in the DIGIC processor and there may be a way around this.

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No. On the Canon 6D, the available Live View magnification levels are limited to normal view, 5x, and 10x in the standard firmware. There is no built-in setting to go beyond 10x.

Custom firmware discussions suggest these magnification steps may be tied to the camera’s internal implementation, so higher magnification is not known to be available in practice on the 6D. For precise manual focus, 10x is the maximum Live View magnification you can use.

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