turning Sony a6500's finder sensibility off

[marcosbase]

Is there a way to turn the finder´s sensibility off on the a6500? The camera "thinks" that the back plate of my waterhousing is my eye, so it keep turned on and never goes to POWER SAVE mode. My battery goes off rally quick.

[Pieter]

Does it help to turn the viewfinder off manually? Menu: Display/Auto Review1 (menu 2 page 6/9) -> Finder/monitor -> Monitor(manual). Can also map Finder/monitor to a hotkey I think

Edited June 2, 2019 by Pieter

[marcosbase]

That´s what I'm doing. I usually set it to Monitor (manual), but the finder sensitivity doesn't allow it to Power Save after 10 seconds.

If there was a way to turn this sensitivity off, it would work perfectly!

[Pieter]

If you're really desperate: does it help to tape off the sensor (e.g with black insulation tape)? I read about some hack to make the sensor less sensitive by taping off half of it.

[marcosbase]

I saw that on youtube, but it doesn´t make it unsensitive, it just avoid the camera from switching from monitor to finder.

Edited June 2, 2019 by marcosbase

[jasonsd@live.com]

Did you ever find a solution to this? I have the same problem