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The function button can override the menu settings on some things, that's kind of what it's there for: quick changes on the fly, no menu diving. Same advice I always give, if you bought a used camera and haven't yet done a factory reset, you should. There's no way to know what weird settings the previous owner programmed. Best to start from scratch.

I recall at one point people were having trouble with batteries going dead while the camera wasn't in use. Someone traced it back to Bluetooth and other connectivity. Putting the camera in Airplane Mode when you toss it in the bag shuts all that stuff off without having to mess around with a bunch of settings. Honestly don't know how factual this is, but I noted that my camera battery was dying in the bag once I connected a Bluetooth trigger. Putting it in Airplane seems to have fixed it, but that's a very small sample size.

brand new to a7c - just got a used one. And new kid here. Menu settings are for auto iso, with upper and lower limits set. Images shot in M mode show ISO changing appropriately with fixed shutter speed and f/stop. But Viewfinder overly bright - couldn't see impact of circularly polarizer for example. Changing Viewfinder brightness levels (manual or auto) didn't make much difference. Discovered the iso setting in the function panel was set at 64,000. Which I lowered to 100 and now viewfinder normal brightness and polarizer effects noticeable in viewfinder. do these two places to set ISO work separately and if so, what's the diffo? thanks

I use the Airplane mode to turn Bluetooth and Wireless on and off. I generally have them off.

Glad you got it sorted out.

Have just done a bit more digging on this. It would appear that the camera will not go to sleep if bluetooth remote control setting is on. On my camera bluetooth was set to on and bluetooth remote control was set to on. Not sure how that happened I have never used bluetooth and I bought the camera from new.

It appears there are power save options in setup 2 page 2 of 6 there are two settings: Power Save Start Time with adjustments from 10 seconds (mine was set to 1m) Auto Power Off Temperature with adjustments Standard or High mine was set to standard. I will check my firmware because these don't appear to be functioning correctly.

Neither do I, but I am also human and occasionally I forget, so I would rather it go to sleep.

Sounds like you have to go to the menus and select a go-to-sleep time other than "never".

Where there's smoke................

I would never put my cameras away in my camera bag without switching them off.

This is what I probably would do in your situation. However, rather than focusing manually, I would just find something approx. 2.6m away, if using f11, and just autofocus on it.

You have to tell it when to shut down. There are settings that can prevent it from shutting down if that's what you want. I'm guessing that's the issue. Is this a used camera? If so, did you do a factory reset when you first got it?

I have a few Sony Alphas: A6000, A6100, A7. On all of these I tend to leave them switched on while I shoot and I notice after a little while the display goes black and they appear to sleep. So if I accidentally forget to switch them off before putting them away in my bag, there isn't an issue. I have never consciously done anything, they have always worked that way. I also have a A7C, but the same isn't the case. If I forget to turn it off and then put it away in my bag and drive home, when I remove tit from my bag it is roasting hot. Is there something in the settings that I am doing wrong on the A7C that is stopping it going to sleep, or do they not go to sleep and remain on?

Hi Paolo, thanks for that I had already experimented with your second option. I focused on an object 2.8m away in manual mode using focus magnification. Then switched to AF mode and wandered around for a couple of hours taking photographs without touching my back button focus button. All worked fine. For good measure I switched the camera off to see if it remembered the manually set focus distance, then switched it on an hour later and it did. So all seams fine.

Hi Zedster, At the cost of stating the obvious, you may be able to work around the distance scale resolution issue like this: 1/ manually focus to a distance closer than 2m 2/ slowly turn the ring until the meter shows 2m 3/ slowly turn the ring until the meter shows 3m, paying attention to how much you had to turn it from the previous position 4/ turn back the ring by about half that amount This should focus your lens at approximately 2.5m. Alternatively, you could of course place a subject at exactly 2.5m from the front of the lens and manually focus until it looks sharpest in the viewfinder, and there you go. Please note that hyperfocal focussing does not usually require absolute perfection, since it relies on having a large depth of field anyway. Hope this helps somehow! Paolo

I would like to use my A6100 with a Samyang 24mm F2.8 for street photography. I would like to use hyperfocal focusing for speed. But the lens uses focus by wire and even if I set the correct distance (approx 2.6m for F11) using manual focus, the slightest knock will refocus and I may not notice until too late. I have some questions: If I manually focus, the inbuilt focus distance scale resolution jumps from 2m to 3m. Is there any way to get better resolution like 2.1, 2.2 etc? How accurate are these distances? Once I have focused on the required distance. I plan to switch from MF to AF-C, so lens focus ring changes wont change the focus. My camera is set to back button focusing. I i do not touch the back button, will it retain the focus distance set manually? Are there any other/better ways to focus to a hyperfocal distance?

Thanks a lot - good advice. Very frustrating and it seems a little short sighted not making the older version available .... unless their process of making a new version trashes the ability to regress. I will go and buy some "patience";-).

Yes, you'll need to pack your patience. Sony pulled 6 because it was bricking some cameras, it isn't even available right now. We're now on week 5+ waiting for them to sort it out. Unfortunately, they remove the old firmware link when the new one is introduced, but they didn't repost it when 6 was suspended. You'll have to wait like the rest of us. I would strongly advise you NOT to trust anyone sending you the previous version or downloading it from anywhere else. If it isn't a link that takes you directly to the Sony support site, avoid it like the plague. The one caveat would be if the shop you bought it from could do the update there. I would certainly ask.

Hi - I am new and just invested in two A7 bodies (2nd hand) MKIV, and new glass - (I am coming from Fuji). I bought my two bodies from same shop but a month apart. the first one has V5.01 and I just stopped from downloading V6.0 as there are issues - Sony's message. My second body, bought today has V2.01 on it. I want to transfer settings, but they need to be on the same firmware version. Sony do not currently have a version I can download, apart from V6.0 which they say should be avoided. Does anyone know how I can get hold of version 5.01 please. Fuji support was good and would react to this issues quickly. I have been in a trapped loop of Sony's AI trying to TALK to someone. I am not hopeful that the software will be fixed quickly as it is already one month and half since the message not to update to V6. Thanks a lot in advance.

Has anyone ever tried contact cleaner like we use to clean potentiometers? Won't hurt. Leave the camera off, spray it in and operate the dial fast, back and forth over and over. Let dry before you turn the camera on, it dries fast. I cleaned a mouse wheel with some the other day. Make sure to get the kind that's safe for plastics.

I have an a850 that does the same thing on the FRONT control dial. The f-stop jumps & misses when changing f-stops -- instead of acting smoothly like my other a850 & A900. I assume the dial is the problem and messed up somehow. Don't know a way to fix it. Nice to know it's not a fluke -- I guess. I've thought of resetting everything to the factory default, but haven't tried it yet. Seems like a long shot.

Hello, I'd try another SD card. If that does not help, I'd go to MENU > Setup (yellow) > Settings Reset > Initialize which executes the real "hard reset". Then enter all parameters from the beginning. If the camera now –with the new SD card– works normally, I'd install the application as the last step. If the camera still does not work, it needs to go back.

there were other people saying solutions similar to this. But yah I agree with Cameratose this does not justify the whole situation for Sony

Hi. Just developed same problem with my Alpha 350. ¿Is there a way to replace or fix it?