I’m on my first trip with my A1 in a nauticam housing. Above water the camera sleeps normally after 10s of inactivity. But in the housing, the camera won’t sleep. I think it’s the eye sensor picking up the housing?

If I set the camera to manual screen then the camera will sleep so, but I’d much rather use the view finder.

Is there some setting I’m missing, or a trick y’all have figured out to fix this?

Otherwise I’ll resign myself to using the power switch all the time.

Have you tried turning off the eye sensor? I read that it doesn't work in the housing anyway
You can map a button to switch between the two instead:

https://www.nauticam.com/blogs/news/the-sony-underwater-setup-guide-for-a7rv-a7iv-a7siii-and-a1

EVF/LCD Selection

Underwater I also want to manually decide between using the EVF or the LCD (this is necessary as the eye sensor doesn't work underwater).
To switch between the two underwater we need to disable the automatic switching and assign a custom key to toggle between the two.

To do this, we need to navigate to:
'SETUP' > 'Finder/Monitor' and set this to 'Monitor (manual)'. NOTE: We choose 'Monitor' for now, otherwise you'll have to do the rest of this step while looking through the EVF.

Next, we'll assign the toggle control to the 'C3' Button which is easily accessible with your left hand on the rear of the housing. Navigate to:
'SETUP' > 'Operation Customize' > 'IMAGE Custom Key Settings' > and assign 'C3' to 'Finder/Monitor'.

In the 'Finder/Monitor' menu you can also set the brightness, color, quality and frame rate of the EVF. I prefer to maximize quality and frame rate and generally leave the color and brightness as is.

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by bghazzal

Hey @akarnani ,

On my a1 I set the view finder selection to be manual.

I then set button C3 to switch between the VF and back panel.

This allows me to easily switch as needed and defeats the issue of the auto sensor picking up the housing as your eye.

This is the same as what @bghazzal shared. It works great!

Cheers

Chip

Thanks @ChipBPhoto and @bghazzal. That is how I have mine setup, finder/monitor manual with C3 to swap. In monitor the camera goes to sleep just fine, but not when the viewfinder is active. I assume it’s due to the eye sensor but I’m not sure.

I’ll try again out of the housing and see if that works.