Sony A7IV Setup - Customizing Buttons & Hidden Features

I can't believe Sony still hasn't got auto brightness for the display. This should be such a simple thing to implement in something that is constantly measuring light...

Hi Lee. I’m considering A74 thank you for the teaching set up. One thing could you think about explaining why you’re changing pre set menus and what effect that has. Also sorry it’s an age thing to follow, please go a little slower.

i don’t understand the warning about burning the shutter blades. the alternative is burning the sensor, no?

Lee question .. is this the right camera for F1 shooting ?

You have great videos...I have a question. Can I have my viewfinder on while I am plugged in my a external monitor via HDMI, because when I plug in the viewfinder turns off. Thanks!

Hey, I really like your videos and way to work!

Great video ty !

Is it possible to use the shutter button on the A7R5 to record video.

You suffer from the knowledge curse extremely bad. You are going way too fast. You have to remember we do not know this stuff, you do! I have to keep rewinding everything you’re saying because you keep going so fast.

Thanks!

Many thanks for a fantastic tutorial I have only failed on one customisation the center wheel which comes up not set I then do everything I have done with all the others but nothing happens
Please help
Harry

Do you or did you shoot with mechanical shutter on with e front curtain on or off?

Thank you

I have my eye AF turned off in the menu. I mapped eye AF to the C1 button and it now when I press C1 it locks focus on the eye. This is great and I want to keep this set up. But I also photograph animals and I would like to map the animal eye focus to another custom button to work the same way. Is there a way to map a button to toggle between animal and human eye AF?

thank you

Thank you for the instructive video. It helped me configure my A7 IV even better!

He move so fast as a menu you cannot follow him.

This is so incredibly helpful. Thank you for taking the time to make this, for doing the time markers, and for your channel overall! Super grateful!

Thanks so much! Trying to get everything set up properly!

Hello, what memory card are you using, my camera got hot in the settings mode, they said I should use Sony cf memory card🤕🤕🤕

From this video, I finally found out how to keep picture profile disabled on still mode while enabled on video mode. Thanks for the info.

How does one set up the custom shooting modes for the 1, 2, 3 disk on the top?

This setup guide rocks! Very concise.
I really appreciate that you point out some places where it might make sense to diverge from your setup based on personal use cases.

Thank u sir, help full

Can custom buttons be set to other settings than in the menu. On my a73 I set C3 to interval on/off.

Don't you think there should be a save option, for user settings, all the settings n customizatio in one go and export to other devices.. will help a lot, but going over each options n setting it helps you rethink!

you're a gem brother, thanks for the shortcuts

which one is hidden features?

Thank you so much for your great effort to share such a informative videos it helped me a lot👍👍

I bought two of the Same cameras. But menu style looks old style. How do switch to looks like yours?

thank you so much friend 🙏🏻

Really cool video, thanks for sharing it!

Very informative video thank you

Excellent !!!

thank you. a million times better than Jason Vong's

Do you use PP for raw photos? And if you do can you talk more about that?

I'm picking this camera up in 2 days. This is so helpful, thank you

Man, this was great. Just switched to sony and needed a lot of help. Much appreciated.

Everything happend far, far too Quick. There is no chans in the world to follow what you are doning. It was only klick, klick, klick

Thanks for the assist, Lee. I just switched to the Sony a7iv from my Canon 5d3 (and previously all Canon for as long as I can remember). Your video was the perfect walkthrough of these menus that had me pretty lost. Got all of my customizations in and am ready to start shooting. Well done!

Hi Lee, quick question When I take a picture, it looks like it is exposed correctly when checking it on the LCD screen but when I get it into lightroom my picture always come out under exposed, by quite a bit. Not too much of a problem as I'm shooting in uncompressed raw. I always have to push up the shadows to the max in lightroom. I'd like to know why this is happening and how I can get the pictures to come out less darker. I have my iso set to manual.

Cheers for any advice. I'm curious how to expose properly in camera. Auto ISO helps but I prefer to be in manual. I also have both cards set to RAW.

Appreciated your calm, thorough walking through. Thank you!

Hallo!i want to pair the fuji xs10 with my new A7IV. Which profile can i use to match them?thanks!

What Tripods and Protective cases would you recommend? I just got my first camera (A7IV + F/1.4 24mm). I’ll shoot mostly desk videos like this, maybe some Vlogs etc. I love the shape and design of the peak design travel tripod but it’s so expensive. I was unsure whether I should have the tripod behind the desk or try to make room on my desk, but it’s quite a small desk (in terms of depth) so I think a full size tripod is best.

In terms of protection, I was looking at getting a small hard shell brief case. Just for the camera and lens. Is there any small hard shell cases simply for the camera body? Cheers.

Thank you so much brother. Just got mines today, the video was super helpful.

Thanks Lee, a really helpful video! Being new to Sony, your video saved me a bunch of time. Screen Protectors: Bought two before realising the nominal 3" diagonal measurement makes for several different screen dimensions, across the Sony range. New A7IV specific protectors are now available - I got a pack (x3) Komet glass ones through Amazon at £7.99 (c$10). They fit easily and I have two spares in case of damage.

Perfect video, thanks for helping me setup my A7IV. Can you do a video on setting dial buttons 1,2,3 for video and saving those settings? I think for S&Q could also do 1 for 2fps and 2 for the 120fps HD 10-bit.

Thank you - so helpful!

Wonderfully done. Why is the autofocus sensitivity tracking set at 4? I’ve always left it at 3. Am I missing something good? 🙏