Why is Image Review grayed out on my Canon camera, and how can I turn it back on?
Asked 5/3/2012
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On my Canon camera, the image preview after each shot stopped appearing. In the menu, the Image Review/Review setting shows as Off, but it’s grayed out so I can’t change it. I didn’t intentionally disable it. What setting can cause this, and how do I restore image review?
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I know this thread is years old, but I had the same issue on a recently acquired second hand EOS M5, and this is how I fixed it.
Transpires that on the M5 when you select a drive mode other than single shot the image review is automatically disabled, and the option in the set-up menu becomes greyed out to the setting of OFF as well.
Switching back to single shot is the only way to have automatic image reviews and to make set-up changes to the image review options from the main menu.
This operational "feature" is not mentioned in the manual nore could I find any reference through numerous google searches (this posting being the most relevant). As this does not happen for the optical EOS brethren such as the EOS 7D mkii for example, it had me stumped for a little while, this only being complicated by the fact that I'd been going through the set-up menus and thought I'd inadvertently disabled it somehow.
I'm posting this here so hopefully others with the same issue may find a quicker resolution to this "feature" than I did.
Aslo for those that do not know, while reviewing an image in playback mode pressing the Menu button will give you further playpack menu options (5 tabs worth on the M5).
Cheers Spud
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A grayed-out Image Review setting usually means another shooting setting is disabling it. On some Canon models, if the drive mode is set to something other than Single Shot, automatic image review is turned off and the menu option becomes unavailable.
Try this:
- Turn the camera on in shooting mode.
- Check the drive mode and switch it back to Single Shot.
- Go back into the shooting/settings menu and look for Review/Image Review.
- Set it to your preferred time (for example 2–10 sec or Hold).
If that still doesn’t work, using Reset All settings can restore the option, which solved the issue for the original asker.
So the likely fixes are:
- change drive mode back to single shot
- if needed, run Reset All in the settings menu
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