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Unlock your Sony camera's settings
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prevent USB mode screen from showing up to allow camera use while charging a6000 #257

Open aaronwi opened 6 years ago

aaronwi commented 6 years ago

This would be a much needed feature to allow for external battery packs and AC adapters to keep the camera charged and allow it to take photos, I believe the a6300 or a6500 allow for camera use while charging, so their firmwares could be reference points.

aeosdan commented 6 years ago

This would be a great feature but I don't know if we have access to the necessary part of the code. Sony could have enabled this for many older cameras through firmware updates but have not done so. That points to two potential explanations. Either Sony don't care about adding useful features and would rather sell you a new camera, or they are unable to do this due to hardware implementation.

mturkdfeldt91 commented 6 years ago

I read somewhere that this is not possible on the a6000 because of the circuitry. Not sure if it is true.

I suggest a dummy battery and a battery made of 4 or 6 18650 cells for a bike headlight. You can get the battery packs for about $10-20 usd and the dummy battery is about the same.

I'm working on building a tripod battery system where there are two 18650 cells in each leg all wired to a 6 inch lead on the dummy battery. This would be for video use filming at skateparks, astrophotography, and timelapses. The system is all hidden in the legs except the lead to the camera and a 2 inch charging lead.