One of the best settings on a7 iv is the custom hold button and to be honest I discovered not so long ago despite having the camera from the release. Let say you set up the camera for birds in fly ISO 6400, 1/2000 and f8. But it happens that the bird is on the tree stationary, in this case you don't need high ISO, fast shutter speed and you want to blur the background @f4 instead of f8. With custom hold button you can change (with set in advance) settings like ISO, shutter speed, aperture and other, holding one button. After you complete shooting the bird on the tree and it flies away again, with releasing the button you roll back the previous settings (ISO6400, 1/2000, f8). For a lot of people this is not new information but I just discovered that.
Pressing pause at 2mins 46secs and reaching for my A7R5....................carry on........................brilliant. I'm one of the donuts that always shoots in manual. No offence intended to all manual shooters LOL. Will give this a go and hopefully get a much better hit rate :-). Thanks Danny. Another wonderfully useful video.
🙌🏻🙌🏻 when I found these settings it was like a penny dropping moment. Maybe i’m late to the game, but so far everybody else i’ve showed this too didn’t know either 🤷🏻♂️😂 Thanks for watching!!
I have been too locked into only shooting manual. I was watching your Avata video and then found this one. I am a bit confused on how Shutter speed SS works. I noticed on both my Sony RX10M4 and RX100M7 when I am in Aperture Priority with SS set to 1/125, the shutter speeed will still go slower when I use a smaller aperture.
Great tip! I had no Idea that we could constrain the shutter speed during auto ISO and aperture priority. This is game changing. (I have been using fully manual during auto ISO which is NOT optimal.) Thank you.
Yeah but the iso at that point is at 12800, i’ve had to close the aperture to force this to happen obviously which you wouldn’t normally do but the principle is there ☺️
Probably not, no. The A7c is very similar to the A7iii and i can recall that not having this either. Sorry 😞 but hey, one more reason to buy a nee camera this week? 🤫😉
Nearly 6 decades for me…I agree in principle but aperture priority came along in the 1980s when we also understood depth of field and also used two bodies with different film and film speeds. I tend to choose my lens, typically f2.8 pro types first to maximise the light, then DOF, then think about ISO suitable to take on. If it’s getting above 400 ASA I’ll either use fill in flash for people or get a tripod out.
One of the best settings on a7 iv is the custom hold button and to be honest I discovered not so long ago despite having the camera from the release. Let say you set up the camera for birds in fly ISO 6400, 1/2000 and f8. But it happens that the bird is on the tree stationary, in this case you don't need high ISO, fast shutter speed and you want to blur the background @f4 instead of f8. With custom hold button you can change (with set in advance) settings like ISO, shutter speed, aperture and other, holding one button. After you complete shooting the bird on the tree and it flies away again, with releasing the button you roll back the previous settings (ISO6400, 1/2000, f8). For a lot of people this is not new information but I just discovered that.
So you talked about in the video about your settings but no where did you put your settings in here. What's up with that?
Pressing pause at 2mins 46secs and reaching for my A7R5....................carry on........................brilliant. I'm one of the donuts that always shoots in manual. No offence intended to all manual shooters LOL. Will give this a go and hopefully get a much better hit rate :-). Thanks Danny. Another wonderfully useful video.
🙌🏻🙌🏻 when I found these settings it was like a penny dropping moment. Maybe i’m late to the game, but so far everybody else i’ve showed this too didn’t know either 🤷🏻♂️😂
Thanks for watching!!
I have been too locked into only shooting manual. I was watching your Avata video and then found this one. I am a bit confused on how Shutter speed SS works. I noticed on both my Sony RX10M4 and RX100M7 when I am in Aperture Priority with SS set to 1/125, the shutter speeed will still go slower when I use a smaller aperture.
This is how I roll with my portrait and event work probably 90% of the time. Good stuff!
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Great tip! I had no Idea that we could constrain the shutter speed during auto ISO and aperture priority. This is game changing. (I have been using fully manual during auto ISO which is NOT optimal.) Thank you.
Hope it helps!! 🙌🏻
Where you demonstrate it towards the end the shutter is going lower than 1/125?
Yeah but the iso at that point is at 12800, i’ve had to close the aperture to force this to happen obviously which you wouldn’t normally do but the principle is there ☺️
that option doesn't exist for my a7c :(
Probably not, no. The A7c is very similar to the A7iii and i can recall that not having this either. Sorry 😞 but hey, one more reason to buy a nee camera this week? 🤫😉
NO ! I have done manual settings for more than 4 decades, no auto setting can ever match manual setting, I AM in command !
Nearly 6 decades for me…I agree in principle but aperture priority came along in the 1980s when we also understood depth of field and also used two bodies with different film and film speeds. I tend to choose my lens, typically f2.8 pro types first to maximise the light, then DOF, then think about ISO suitable to take on. If it’s getting above 400 ASA I’ll either use fill in flash for people or get a tripod out.
@@andrewcrossley2448 Auto settings make every thing more complicated. I rarely use a flash, maybe one of 50,000 images.