Point and Shoot Nature Photography: Birds and Wildlife Modifications - Sony Rx10iv

Can I use this camera with the Seek app in my phone to identify birds insects etc. in real time? Or do I have to manually take a shot and transfer the photo to the phone and then open it in the Seek app?

Thank you so MUCH, Stephen! I bought this camera over a year ago, and have not done much with it because it seemed like there was so much to tackle! But I am heading off to Costa Rica for a birding and wildlife adventure next month, and was determined to be able to use it. I feel MUCH more confident now that I have at least one solid setting in Memory and a better understanding of how to work with the settings. I SUPER appreciate your thoughtful, clear, step-by-step instruction.

Thank you for this video. I'm struggling a little with zoom photos - blurry. Any suggestions?

Now do a video for birds in flight and landscape. We have other memory settings to fill on the RX10VI. Thanks in advance.

I'm in Program mode and my camera does not include the Face/Eye Af. Set. :( Thoughts?

Thank you for this video! Very helpful!!!

Hello Stephen - thank you so much for this video, so helpful and informative

Thanks for your information, helps me a lot.

Thank you, excelent explanation.

Thank you, that was very very helpful

Using these settings the images are too dark. Any suggestions?

Thank you so much... easily understandable for a beginner like me😊

This is great. Thanks!

Thank you so much for sharing these settings!

I have the mk3 is it worth upgrading to the MK4

Very helpful indeed. Thanks for sharing!

Just got this we-beasty of a camera last week and have found myself in a massive learning curve. Thank you for this info.😮

I have reviewed your video for Setting Programs and followed the procedure again using the function button. The only problem is the fn button does not bring up the Drive Mode at all. Instead it shows Bracketing, Off, 2, 5, or 10 seconds. I can get the Drive Mode on the Menu, but when I select Continuous Lo, I get this message: "This operation or setting not available as follows -- ISO/Multi Frame NR.
The remaining commands seem to work; however on your video, all the boxes are highlighted while on mine the Flash Mode, DRO/Auto DHR, and Program (Shoot Mode) are not. The remaining settings in your program seem to set correctly. But how can I get the Drive Mode on the screen and allowing me to work with Continuous Shooting? Do I need to clear all settings from my camera and start over? Please, no, but if so, I would appreciate your guidance. Ruth

hey i have a question and i am hoping someone can help me out here.. I have a sony rx10m4 and i was out shooting a band the other night and for some reason the digital screen says "turn power off and then back on".... I have done it 20 times and it continues to pop up and will not go away.. I have tried all the tips and reset help from the internet.... can anyone help me here and/or tell me why this is happening? I have never dropped this camera, it have never been exposed to any liquids... I would just like for it to work again so i can continue to use it.

Is this video a modification to your settings for stationary and BIF that are detailed in your ebook? In other words, have you changed your recommendations? It seems to be a combination of the settings used for Basic and BIF. I have set up two separate (programmed settings based on yur ebook (Memory 1 and 2), and am wondering if they should be tweaked. Your insight is so helpful as I get ready for a trip to Africa.

Wow, this is the first time I have gotten to grips with this camera, all thanks to you. Just tried it and it's the best my pictures have looked. Do you have any others for portraits, landscapes or Macro?

Thank you so much for this helpful video!

Agreed, but considering that the camera was introduced some 5 years ago and animal/bird eye AF has only recently been perfected in top end Sony A7s, I am still amazed how good it is. It certainly seems to outperform my Sony A7RM5 with 70-200 GM2 lens.

How can the camera be so good?

Hello Stephen. Thank you for putting this information into terms that are easy to understand. The RX10MK IV is one of my favorite cameras!

Hi Stephen. Thank you for this video and the details. I just brought this camera and while I was going through this video I do not see the setting Face/Eye AF Set. on Camera 1- Page 6. The last option that I see is Phase Detect Area. Not sure if i am missing anything here. Can you or anyone help me please with this. Thank you

I have found that, for birds in flight, I have more luck aiming the camera zoomed out to 600mm if I simply sight the bird over the top of the camera and blaze away at 24 fps with the focus set to wide, continuous. I found that if you sight over the top of the hot shoe to the top of the lens hood this line is close to the bottom of the frame at 600mm and by holding the camera out in front of me with the tension of the neck strap helping steady the camera I'm able to judge approximately where the top of the frame is. I'm going to make up something more like an open gun sight using the top of the hot shoe and the lens hood as mounting points that should be even better.

Hi again Stephen. I’ve heard people are using clear image zoom to get shots of birds that are far away. Would you recommend this? If so could you do a video on it? Thank you very much

Very very helpful thank you

A thousand thank you's! ❤

Finally someone helped me understand this camera better. This is my hiking, travel camera. Thanks for the help.

Hi. I tried your setting. Love it. Thank you. But I have one question. How to remove the repeat shot. Always giving me 3 shots. Hope you get what I am saying

Hi Stephen , thanks for the video. How do you set the zoom to 600mm like you say in your guide ?

I have a M3 and my wife was jealous so she got the M4. The telephoto stopped working so she bought another. I dropped that one but it survived with the UV lens breaking. Then months later the telephoto stopped working with the dreaded " turn power off and on" message. We were headed on a trip so she bought another. Come to find we had purchased a warranty program and sent it in to be fixed. They telephoto the lens and now we have two working M4s. I get one now. Love the focusing.

Very helpful - thanks for taking the time to make this video. A week in and loving my M4!

Set AF on to AEL button. Spot of hot glue on it makes fast to find and use. AF on the focus Lock button good for low down snaps using the screen tilted.

Thank you!

That was an extremly helpful Video, thanks a lot. I have rented this camera for 3 months to test it and though I have it now for three weeks I am not too happy with it. I am sure it is because I don't know how to use all the functions correctly. Now that I have saved your functions for bird Photography I will give the camera another chance to perform better

Hello from France 🇫🇷. Explanations very useful. Thanks a lot.

Excellent video - is there a way you can access the recall screen with all your settings already saved with one button click -if you are on the fly and you want to switch from saved program 1 to 2 fast it’s a bit clunky - you switch off MR and back on and select -or you press Fn click on MR and select - if just like to go straight to one of them with one click

Excellent! Thank you very much!