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Is there a way of turning the eye sensor OFF so that both EVF and LCD screen are ON, ALWAYS?

There have been too many times while shooting with a tripod that when approaching the LCD screen to take a closer look at the screen the eye sensor detects my fat head and switches the LCD screen OFF.

Quite annoying! 

Thanks, Tom

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Options two and three essentially turn the eye sensor off, these are always-on settings for either of those two, but only one at a time. You can set it up to switch between them.

If you read a bit further to the part about the set-up menu section, screen setup -> view mode setting, you have some options regarding the evf and lcd display modes.

The first and last options seem the same, but I think if you try them you will see a difference.

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12 hours ago, tjlewis said:

From what I see from the various choices the first and last are identical in how they function.

The difference only applies if you have set the camera to display the image after shooting (Screen Setting => Image Disp in the menu) - otherwise they behave the same.

With Eye Sensor the image display option is shown in both evf and lcd (in other words you see the image you just shot in either the evf or lcd) - but with Eye Sensor + LCD Display that image is only shown in the lcd not the evf.

The advantage of the second option is that you can use the evf and keep shooting without the delay for showing the image you just shot - but take your eye away from the evf and see that image in the lcd.

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On 7/18/2024 at 5:19 PM, jerryy said:

Options two and three essentially turn the eye sensor off, these are always-on settings for either of those two, but only one at a time. You can set it up to switch between them.

If you read a bit further to the part about the set-up menu section, screen setup -> view mode setting, you have some options regarding the evf and lcd display modes.

The first and last options seem the same, but I think if you try them you will see a difference.

Very interesting way of looking at options 2 & 3 but having to setup a switch to cycle between is a round about the issue. Why not just have a switch to turn the sensor off. 

I've looked at the documentation closely—I have a pdf copy and searched it to death—and haven't come across anything.

Thanks, jerryy

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13 hours ago, Greybeard said:

With Eye Sensor the image display option is shown in both evf and lcd (in other words you see the image you just shot in either the evf or lcd) - but with Eye Sensor + LCD Display that image is only shown in the lcd not the evf.

The advantage of the second option is that you can use the evf and keep shooting without the delay for showing the image you just shot - but take your eye away from the evf and see that image in the lcd.

I see the distinction now!

Thanks, Greybeard, but I still want a switch to turn off the eye sensor and keep the EVF and LCD on.

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1 hour ago, tjlewis said:

Very interesting way of looking at options 2 & 3 but having to setup a switch to cycle between is a round about the issue. Why not just have a switch to turn the sensor off. 

I've looked at the documentation closely—I have a pdf copy and searched it to death—and haven't come across anything.

Thanks, jerryy

Okay, I will ask, how are you able to look at both of them at the same time?

Keeping both on at the same time is a battery killer, these two electronic displays are movie camera televisions (monitors) to put it in a different view 😀, keeping them running constantly (continually updating) takes a lot of juice that then cannot be used to get more images.

When you use options two or three, the eye sensor is “off”. A simple button push to swap between the two options when you need to use one over the other is fairly easy to do. 

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19 hours ago, tjlewis said:

I see the distinction now!

Thanks, Greybeard, but I still want a switch to turn off the eye sensor and keep the EVF and LCD on.

I don't think its possible - you could do the opposite (keep it on) with some tape - but not sure there is a way to keep it off (although like Jerryy says - it would certainly chew through the battery even if you could)

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