Interesting focus settings. Mark Galer would probably strongly disagree ;-) ISO is on auto all the time for me. No need to adjust it nowadays. But cheers for your tutorial, good settings overall.
One other setting to change is to set the auto power off temperature to "High" in the settings under Setup 9 "Power Setting Option". This raises the temperature limit at which the camera will automatically stop recording video. It's set to "Standard" by default, which limits record time, especially shooting outside. Changing to "High" will maximize your 4K runtime. (It won't run indefinitely, but it will run much longer.)
I’m so surprised how much this setting is not talked about. I although had a very strange experience where mine overheated pretty fresh out the box. Barely an hr in and I was just simply playing around with the settings. Placed it down to review a video like this I was watching and when I went back to it, I noticed it was off. After turning it back on it turned off a min later due to overheating. To me that didn’t seem normal so I’m getting a new one from Amazon to be safe. But this setting is not much talked about!
Nice video. I guess that you have not used a green screen. However, you look well separated from the background. What was the focal length that you used for this? If I were to guess, it was 50mm at F2.0 as F1.4 would separate you even more from the background.
Hi, thanks to share your interesting video. I have to buy a new camera, maybe the Sony A7 IV. . I will have to use Sony A7 IV enough often in Africa to shoot 4K documentaries in remote areas. Do you think the Sony A7 IV will be sturdy enough to withstand the heat, dust and humidity? Thank you
weird video. we buy camera for $3200 because of its amazing quality in video and pictures and then u suggest us to use some compressed file types and not the best video quality video files. like what dude
Why do all these setup tips made by these channels cover the same obvious items that most Sony users that buy this type of camera already know.There are many more unusual items that hardly ever get covered. Not every Sony user is a wedding photographer ..
7:42 - since newest versions of lightroom support raw file formats from a7 iv aswell, it automatically imports only raw files directly from the card.. idk why or when would you choose each file secifically, skipping the jpg in the card...also if you need to do that, you can just type in search 'jpg' or 'arw' and it will only find you specific format that you just Ctrl+A select and import 🤷🏻♀️ 🙂
It's also worth noting that the "lowest quality" option for video recording, as it's referred to here -- HEVC 4K -- is a High Efficiency Video Codec file. It is essentially the video equivalent of the HEIC photo setting mentioned earlier in the video and can bring the same playback issues on non-optimized computers/systems that you can have when trying to view HEIC photos. It also requires the most work by a computer, if it can read the file, to "unpack" the mp4 file while you're editing your media, which can make your editing software and/or computer run slowly. I think Jerad's assessment is spot on: XAVC S 4K is a happy medium between the ultimate in file quality (and editing flexibility) and not having files that are outrageously huge. The bottom line in our work with both the A7iv and the FX3 has been that everything is usually on XAVC S, and sometimes on S-I depending on the situation. It's less about perceived visual quality and more about the intended use of the footage, since all three record options produce good visuals. Plenty of instructive content out there on when to shoot LongGOP vs All-Intra, if you're working in professional settings where you think that S-I might be useful.
It would be great to have the option of recording images to slot 1 and slot 2 alternating. This way, you have fast write speed and in case one card dies, it's somewhat likely you have a similar photo on the other card still.
If you problem to select raw and JPEG images then just sort them by type or group them by type. You will get raw and JPEG images seperately in your pc, no need to select each image
guys.. 9 out of 10 of us/you won't know the difference. unless you print posters for Times Square - there is no need for uncompressed. if you wanna show off, have lot of money for hard drives etc - shoot uncompressed, so you can talk about it. 90% of us - guys, just compress it, save space... i know the option is there for a reason, but it's not for shooting your wedding or portraits.. any closeup. it doesn't matter
I just got my first FF camera, the A7IV + kit lens yesterday (very exciting). I haven't turn it ON yet, battery is charging on the charger... so your advice came in right on time. Thank you Jerad. I'm appreciated your time. 👍
This is awesome & super informative! May I know which LUT are you using for S-Cinetone and if you change any of the settings for that picture profile? Thanks!
Excelente informacion, Thanks. But tell me why the lens do not move automatically, like another DSLR Cameras? Why does the sound is not listen? I see the green small squares But I hear nothing. For taking photos inside of the museums which are the best settings?
Thanks for this great video. And thanks for your wonderful spelling. I'm from France, my english is not perfect but I understood all what you said. Cheers !
No thank u sir, just got the a7iv yesterday...being unable to change the iso using the wheel was something that threw me off when I got the a7iv coming from the a7iii but I was like damn,id have to get over it, but am glad you showed that theres a way to make it changeable by scrolling as opposed to pressing it thanks.
I was thinking Sony is hard to use I bought it 2 days ago and dunno how to use just leave canon . But your video and the way how you teach is helping beginners like me . Thank you so much sir and respect from Kuwait 🌹🌹
Very nice video, I am going through various setup tutorials now that I have had my A7IV for a while, to see if I can better optimize it. I found a couple of jewels here, thanks!
I’ve only used Sony cameras for years and always had two SD slots for all of my cameras so why have Sony introduced compact flash now, it’s a backwards step and makes no sense at all, if anyone could explain please, I’d be happy to hear any reasons?
Hello. I just got my A7IV and I can not figure out how to have the EVF information show horizontal when shooting vertical mode like my R6. I would like the screen info to rotate in the EVF but it doesn't. Would you know the setting to make this happen. It silly to see the info sideways where shooting vertical.
Unfortunately, this is not a feature on Sony mirrorless cameras even after the new menu system update. When I first shot with the Nikon Z6, the rotation of the menu following the rotation of the camera was a game changer. This is something Sony should have done a long time ago.
@@jeradcamera thank you. I also have another dilemma. Seems the bracketing and the delay timer is in the same options. How can i continuous bracket with a delay timer. My Canon has this. This for me is huge. I let the camera settle with the timer and then I take 3 bracketed continuous photos. Since I need to re align these photos I cant have movement when i release the shutter on the first photo.
ir really makes everyone who has sense cringe when you declare that some color profile is better than the other. profiles are different, not better or worse. check you script twice next time.
You was talking about not having to click every other file when separating raw vs jpeg. But you are giving up a back up of your photos doing that. When you could just use list view, then use file type filters which will cause windows to show only the .arw files. Usually I believe it gets reset back to the normal way after you close the window so it won’t cause issues with not finding files later on as well. That way you can do a shift click on all .arw files.
