https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4498751
Hi all,
This is my first post on this forum! I hope you'll find it useful.
I came across an interesting thing that I would like to share:
I had a Sony a6000 for quite some time now, and while it's a great camera, it has it's own limitations.
One example is it's timelapse app - I bought an external power adapter to be able to take long (entire day, night or even both) timelapses. I was lucky enough that my second-hand camera already had the official (paid) timelapse app installed. The app does it's job, but it has it's own limits. One of them is max number of shots (990), another is the inability to reduce interval between the shots to less than one second (burst). But otherwise, the app works perfectly fine.
Another limitation however was more difficult to work around: I was looking at (cheap) options to add an external monitor to a6000 - turns out you can use your smartphone with Imaging Edge app and get live view straight away via WiFi. One problem though: for some strange reason, this can't be used for video. This was a huge disappointment, as filming would benefit from having external monitor.
I did some research and came across a page by some Vietnamese guy, who describes how you can work around this limitation. Turns out all you have to do is hack your camera and change it's model name from a6000, to something else like a6001 (I understand that it works because a6000 is on the list of unsupported cameras, but a6001 isn't).
I've tested this myself and can confirm that it works as expected, the whole process took me about 5 minutes.
At this point you can also install some other additional apps like unofficial timelapse app (without the limitations of official app), and a bunch of others.
The instructions are clear and easy to follow, details are here: https://chandat.net/multimedia/photography/huong-dan-bat-che-do-remote-control-video-recording-cho-sony-a6000/
The page is in Vietnamese, but can be easily translated.
Cheers
https://chandat.net/multimedia/photography/huong-dan-bat-che-do-remote-control-video-recording-cho-sony-a6000/
open the tweak app
enable wifi and telnet
open putty, connect to camera via telnet
run bk.elf w 0x003e0005 49 4C 43 45 2D 36 30 30 30 to set camera model to a6000
run bk.elf w 0x003e0005 49 4C 43 45 2D 36 30 30 31 to set camera model to a6001
If camera is set to non-existent camera model (like a6001), then raw images will not be reported properly and might not open in some programs (like darktable) - such raw images can still be read correctly by lightroom and perhaps other raw developers.
It's better to roll back the model change once it is no longer needed.
