A simple impression on EOS M5

J Peters wrote:

Hi, I am typing this on my phone so I can't easily put in references to the manual. But there is a Display option on tab 1 of the setup menu. You can change toggling from LCD to EVF to manual. That will stop the automatic feature where the EVF turns on or off depending whether you are looking through it.

If you literally never want to use the LCD you can set EVF to be ON in that same menu and leave it set that way. Otherwise you can program one of the buttons (I use M-Fn) to toggle between the two displays.

Be aware that anything detected by the sensor (like your clothing or the inside of your bag) will keep the evf on and will stop the camera going into sleep mode. Either wait for the camera to sleep before putting it in a bag or hoster or turn it off with the switch.

Thank you. I found the option to control LCD/EVF manually.

For LCD only mode, I have no problem with it. However, the operation of EVF is a little bit nervous.

In the sense that LCD is never on, it looks fine. But there seems no good way to turn off EVF. Regretfully, the function "Turn off screen" works only for LCD. Yes, there is a time-out option, but it is easily turned on unintentionally only if something comes near it. As a matter of fact, the problem is not a way of turning off, but on. I wish there is an option for a manual way to wake up EVF, rather than turning on by automatic detection. This option will be helpful even in automatic control between LCD/EVF.

Is the only solution to prevent EVF from being on unintentionally to turn off the
hardware itself?