8 Sony Settings I Wish I Knew Sooner

[@JohnPepp]

As a wildlife photographer silent shutter is a must unless you like scaring away your subjects. 🤣

[@omnirhythm]

How much wildlife lives indoor with LED lighting though "🤣"

[@simonhzz]

Was never any issue with my dslrs and shooting without silent shutter on a mirrorless is way quieter and hasnt been any issues for me either.

[@doplinger1]

These are really good tips, Jason! Though I’ve been a Sony shooter for years I only recently got an A7Rv and these really helped.

[@JasonVong]

Hope you’ve been enjoying the a7RV. It’s a stellar camera with a nice articulating screen!

[@explodingheavens]

I will just add another important points: 1. not to forget fast moving subjects gets distorted with e shutter, 2. I hear electronic curtain causes bad bokeh balls, 3. use sky or wall with small aperture like f22 to see all dust on sensor(your nightmare), disable sensor protection when off if you need to clean sensor, then turn it on back, 4. new cameras can stack a lot of photos even with raws and its not like a phone to easily pinch and see sharpness, so sigle take can save a lot of your time, 5. sometimes getting focus and sharp picture is hard on phone, apsc, not to mention fullframe will make it way harder, getting further or decrease aperture to slower one like f10 can help, 6. turning off wifi can increase battery life.

[@shirakawanaoya]

Airplane mode definitely helps with battery life.

[@VishwasRavindran92]

I don’t agree on your 5th point modern cameras already have best of the best autofocus system. Depends on your lens and. The manufacturer you choose for. F10 for sharp photo ? 😂 seems like you haven’t upgraded from dslr yet!?

[@Ethefake]

the 5th point is just... wrong? i only ever miss focus if i either mess up myself or shoot a very challenging subject. You really dont need to stop down to achieve good focus

[@explodingheavens]

@@VishwasRavindran92 maybe I did say 8t wrongly, I mean to get all you want in focus, since area of focus is thinner with bigger sensor and aperture, better bokeh tho. As for eye AF, it's obviously OK, but for objects without eyes and getting them sharp whole, not getting almost everything bokeh like, not easy. Example group shots.

[@explodingheavens]

@@Ethefake I already answered that here, look. But another example, kit lens, old camera, getting focus, you only need slow aperture and everything is in focus 8f eyes AF isn't there, or to focus near when it's impossible with big aperture...

[@RyanPerrella]

1:39 “Tip Number 2” is amazing! @JasonVong I have had my Sony A7IV for 2 years, and just now, because you posted this, I NOW have set that (Face/Eye Frame Disp.) set to ON, and now I unlock all the awesome eye autofocus features the camera has which i was I was unaware I wasn’t taking advantage of. Thanks for such a timely post!

[@JasonVong]

No problem! It’s weird some cameras have it on by default and some off. It’s incredibly handy to have on!

[@RyanPerrella]

@@JasonVong i couldn’t get my Zhiyun Weebill 3S with AI transmount to show a menu or way to engage Object Tracking which the Weebill 2 had. Im hoping this setting you uncovered for me will magically make that setting show up and that i can select a subject and track it from the MasterEye controller. I don’t suppose you know about that crap as well as do Sony do you? Hey I would love a companion to this and your Focus video on 10 bit color selection for these cameras, specifically how to just shoot and edit/develop/post without color grading and Luts, tell me about HLG - HDR video and photography, i especially like whatever HDR capture/processing can be done in camera, not everyone loves the sitting in front of a color wheel part of the motion picture sharing process. Thank you Jason!

[@RyanPerrella]

I know you in the past recommend no Picture Profiles, but i believe that is just an 8bit video and it’s not taking advantage of the HDR capabilities that an A7IV has?

[@stevemister]

"MEGAPICKLES" yes!

[@adobearhoangviet9648]

The setting to turn off Audio signals in the 1.0 menu is actually in page 2, Custom Operation2 listed as Audio signals. The one you showing in the left at 1:36 is just silent shooting, which caused banning as mentioned by you in the beginning :D

[@kevinforman4271]

I was pretty well aware of most of these, but changing the folders to the date and having a hot key for staring the photos are going to be HUGE time savers for me. Thank you for always putting out easy to follow and useful content.

[@Danny-ke1fx]

Tip#3 .... When reviewing a photo on the camera, if you "zoom" into the photo (hit the magnifying button), itll zoom to the area the camera grabbed focus

[@campgo-Vietnam]

I am from Vietnam. Very useful information, thank you. Wish the channel more and more development!

[@Coatsey007]

As always, Jason, succinct, clear and funny; thank you.

[@RVillani]

For the banding lines w/ silent shutter, if you can use shutter speeds lower than 1/60, you should be fine. It happens when there are LED lights, because of their blinking frequency. If your speed is lower than that frequency, you'll get it lit for every row of pixels. But, if you need faster speeds, yeah: just disable silent shutter.

[@Lofote]

1/50 for PAL. By the way LEDs are just one type of light where this happens. Many neon lights do it as well. And of course there are also constantlit LEDs. You just need to be aware that some lights are flickering in the frequency of the AC power ;)

[@RyanPerrella]

AWESOME VIDEO JASON, I’m a long time Sony mirrorless shooter and I think half of your Settings you wish you knew sooner were ones I was unaware, all of the settings you point out are very useful. Thank you.

[@StevenHebron]

Thank you for the tip about shooting in low light on silent mode. I had low light inside a theater and noticed the banding when I got home.

[@cesar0684]

Thank you, Jason! This is such invaluable information! I used your old settings video back when I got my a6400 a few years ago, and now looking at this updated version as I'm setting up my new (happy birthday to me🎉) a6700 camera. Thank you for sharing your many years of experience with the community.

[@trym2121]

Silent shutter, auto flicker or just know your country electricity frequency, it's just between 2. 50hz or 60hz. Also for most non flagship highest end Sony camera, jello effect due to slow readout

[@austinesser]

Could’ve used this video a week ago when I did silent shutter during a wedding ceremony I shot…. I have a lot of editing to do….

[@JasonVong]

😢😢😢

[@rossevans7646]

Had exactly the same thing happen to me 2 years ago at a wedding shoot. Never make that mistake again

[@JohnIvoryMusic]

Denoise will save you!

[@DDHDTV]

the bending is not editable to me. made the same error a few weeks ago at an event

[@loboptlu]

If you use playmemories for download nd only download it will download automatically by date and only the newest ones if you used it to download the others , far faster than your trick.

[@butchgo8930]

This is a camera feature I regret not using in my early years in photography. It’s good for capturing candid and spontaneous expressions of people without the wait for the click.

[@elphenomen100]

I‘m a wedding photographer and No.1 just saved my life! Thank you so much!

[@dennis3004psp]

for astro and low if you stack your images turn on Silent shooting disable all compensation and shot raw

[@Fotogoscar]

I recently started shooting in silent with my a7riii during a recent astro. I mostly do landscape/Astro. Decided to try silent to reduce mechanical clicks. Your thoughts?

[@PhilipBlank]

Some solid tips! I like the explanation of the file folder tip, I was stuck having the piles ups of footage as well!

[@aratafreecs3445]

Thanks a lot for the helpful tips and especially for including both menu systems! I happen to own an a7CII and an a7RIV, so I actually needed both. You saved my a lot of time!

[@CapturedByKen]

I use silent shutter for wildlife but if im at indoor event, ive put a small piece of black tape over the speaker so the shutter sound isnt too loud

[@Hobbies4Hire]

Great job on the video Jason! Thanks for making it. Nice work adding some content in for the folks with the older menu system. Love those special edition Peak Design anchors in alpha orange. Got a set for myself the last Sony event we did at the store I work at here in Vegas.

[@MylesInfocus]

Tips 7 & 8 will come in clutch for me. Shooting pro wrestling events can be a nightmare to sort through lol😅

[@Marcus_Visbal]

Silent shutter it great when doing video recording, especially at weddings

[@jessemartinez2606]

My boy Vong never leads me wrong!!

[@lisap5615]

Thanks so much for sharing your great tips!!! I love all of them, but especially like the setting up a custom button for rating images. I had no idea I could do that. This is definitely going to save me some time.

[@lillyyangflute]

Omg this was actually so helpful Jason thank you!

[@tonypmedia]

This my homie right here, but don't be ma at me my guy I have to slightly make a disagreement with proper explanation. Silent shutter is awesome but you have to treat it like a video mode... in photography. To make it make sense here lol... Natural light like you said agreed... inside anywhere, you have to use shutter angle so like our U.S. peeps 1/60 and my U.K. peeps 1/50. For U.S, you need to shoot 1/60, 1/120, 1/180 or 1/200 for certain cameras. UK 1/50, 1/100, 1/150, 1/200 ... etc. Don't shoot too far past max shutter speed/HSS, it freaks and the lines just multiplies lol. With agreeance, get on location early like you're supposed to anyways and test your settings to see where things work and not then when this roll out, you can dial in and enjoy your shoot.

[@ErnestStevenson-bo3nk]

Incredibly helpful. After shooting with Canon for 30 years I switched to Sony just over a year ago. Trying to figure out where everything is has been daunting. I learned tip 1 the hard way. Thank you!

[@jonnyroids1482]

Another great video Jason. Keep up the good work. Have a lovely week.

[@icehawk147]

Silent shutter is amazing, i use it all time and has nothing to do with the banding lines, those are caused by your shutter speed being faster than the current lighting. so the light is flickering. The solution is to decrease your shutter speed to the point where you have no banding lines. Really has nothing to do with not making a sound at least on my A7r2

[@mauriciolee7349]

Thank Jason for such an INFORMATIVE video. The sections that HELP me the MOST are: Silent Shutter, Face/Eye Frame Display, Focus Frame Display, Date Form, and Lens Compensation. On question please, I suspect the Lens Compensation feature works only with Sony lenses. Is that right?

[@JasonVong]

It does work with some 3rd party lenses. IIRC Tamron has a few lenses that encouraged using lens compensation. Breathing Compensation is only for Sony lenses

[@mauriciolee7349]

@@JasonVong Thanks.

[@rjtteqx]

Ive been watching your videos for quite sometime. And its this video that made me hit the subscribe button. Watching from the UK 🙂

[@eraserrx]

Technically, silence shutter is not the problem. Silent mode forces electronic shutter. If you don't want binding, your shutter speed needs to be in sync with the light. So the problem is the shutter speed.

[@stefanterbekke8506]

Yeah correct, but I also noticed how difficult it can be to always identify if there will be binding. To be sure: mech shutter.

[@fashionops]

for tip 3 on old sony 1.0 menus simply go to the photo and click the zoom in button. It should automatically take u to where there focus point is in the photo.

[@joshlui6749]

been doing this for 10+ years and still learning!

[@WOMENOFTROY]

Love all the Sony content. Thanks!

[@yonis8325]

Vong's on fire lately! Thanks!

[@petrmeissner8292]

The silent shutter banding lines are just under a fluerescent lights.

[@juancarlos-ie8dl]

Thank you Jason for the tips! 😎

[@travelwithjustin]

I use electronic front curtain shutter (mechanical rear) on my A74.

[@pvdongen]

Thanks again Jason. Always learning from your video's.

[@shirakawanaoya]

Tip 3 omg thank you so much!!!

[@joshnault4375]

Help! My Raw images arent showing the settings information. How do I get this back? Thanks!

[@jameshchetwyndjr9739]

Yes agree. Silent shutter. Not what I want. Nikon coolpix p510

[@camilakila]

DOES A7C have a crop/trim image option?

[@ronaldlee3537]

At 8:51, tip 8, I delete obvious defective photos and then wait until I can get to a bigger screen to access whether the photo is suitable; many times the little, itty bitty, the details are too small. Overall good tips.

[@cwbeas]

Breeze Browser its old af but wow it helps sorting and file management

[@luca0166]

@JasonVong I recently bought an A7C mark II, and I noticed that it gets very hot especially in the lens mount area. The seller says it's normal, do you agree?

[@vijhaib]

Very useful tips, great video!

[@valdemarcaballero493]

Excellent video!!!!! Excellent tips!!!!!! Thanks for your work and for sharing!!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Lofote]

Never heard the newer touch menu are 2.0, and the one before 1.0. Because maaaaaaaany more iterations were before, what are threy then, V -3.0? :)

[@markzabo8988]

Fantastic Video 🙌

[@alexcychung]

Can you elaborate on the file naming? Sony has this weird naming for folder, they're not in chronological order. Date Form: The folder name form is as follows: folder number + Y (the last digit)/MM/DD. Example: 10040405 (Folder number: 100, date: 04/05/2014) The folder number really messes up with the search. I have not found a way around it.

[@Ben_Stewart]

Unless you have a stacked/partially stacked sensor like the Nikon Z6iii/Z8

[@Nickxis]

I always used silent shutter and never had a problem with it

[@VR_Wizard]

Another tip. Dont use 1080p video recording rather record in 4K and export with 1080p afterwards the quality will be much better even at the end the video has the same pixel count. The difference is in the compression which is much worse when recorded in 1080p.

[@saulm6386]

Thanks Jason! How many megapickles is a9iii with apsc mode?

[@JasonVong]

I don’t have one on me to check rn but if it’s 24mp then I would assume 10mp just like the a7III

[@DACnew]

Been a Sony user for years - but some great new tips. Every day’s a school day! Thank you.

[@ThomasWilliamson]

I used to shoot exclusively on mechanical shutter to avoid the banding issue... That is until my mechanical shutter broke! I guess I rapid-fired too much. Now I pretty much use electronic shutter unless I need to use my flash.

[@erum.m]

A bit confused about why the silent shutter setting would lead to banding in the photos. I had banding in a video I was trying to make, under certain light - in that case the fix was the shutter speed had to be set at 1/50.

[@Krmelj]

On the Sony A7 IV, can you zoom in/out of the live view without clicking into manual focus? Also in manual focus, can you zoom out of the picture when manual focus assist is on? And is there a focus indication dot when you manually focus? So far I can't find these settings and I hate to think this is not a feature on such an expensive camera...

[@TheKentaurion]

Never use tip nr 5! You lose MPx. Use instead Clear Image Zoom. At least with Jpegs. It might be enough to crop 1,2 or 1,3 times to get rid of the vignetting AND you won't lose any pixels. As an example the tiny and cheap APS-C lens 10-18/4 can be used like 13-21mm on FF cameras by putting it to 1,3x in Clear Image. Obviously it's better to use a sharper lens than that, but it was an example.

[@182-media]

Putting the camera in apsc mode will just crop. So you can really just crop it in post and its the same thing :)

[@CC-gt3ro]

Not really because first you can frame in live which is different both in photo but especially in video. Secondly you can apply clearzoom on top of the crop footage. On my a7c apsc gives 10mp, i used it for wildlife to be sure i get the closeup i want. 10mpbs is good enough for printing. And lastly i use it a lot in video, it allows avoiding distortion to do close shot by using a 35mm lens like a 50mm at the correct 50mm distance but getting closer like you want with the 35mm without the distortion you would get otherwise.

[@katyeah1213]

Thank you so much! This was incredibly helpful

[@ivedigga]

Excellent Video

[@jozsefkovecses3461]

Thanks!

[@stygal1487]

i can't find the rating set option on my a7ii, does anyone know how to do this by any chance?

[@SergioCruzEvents]

Best most helpful video you’ve ever done!

[@edgorochowski9709]

Many Thanks very useful session

[@mikeypiliero7479]

For Tip 7 do you happen to know where that folder setting has moved to in the 3.0 A7siii update? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

[@DonMichele19801]

Jason your Raw pics will be displayed with pre view I don’t see that on my MacBook. Any idea why is that? MacBook is 2024 Modell and I use a alpha 7c r 🤔

[@don7117]

Regarding tip.#5, why not leave it on auto?

[@johnjgilchrist]

Playback on older Sony models , when you zoom in it seems to go automatically to the point that is in focus .

[@BenSussmanpro]

Thanks, very helpful tips. But regarding #5, do you know why Sony’s APSC mode on the R7-4 & 5 uses only 42% of the pixels (26/61), but the crop dimensions are 66% of the full sensor? Assuming pixels are evenly distributed the crop sensor should result in 40mps (66%*61mps). I must be missing some concepts here. Thanks!

[@teodormaxim5033]

it's 1.5 crop on each side of the sensor (width x height), effectively resulting in a 1.5x1.5=2.25 crop

[@BenSussmanpro]

@@teodormaxim5033Oh I see - thanks!

[@dereknovaes7679]

Silent shutter and sports dont mix! It distorts all the things like a ball!

[@DAVE_WHITE]

So on my A9 ver I if I take a shot out in bright light and hit playback it never shows on the back screen I have to view it through the viewfinder of course when the camera is not in direct sun this is not an issue. Is there a menu setting I am missing? I shoot motocross on the weekends and want to check how much movement I have in the tires with different shutter speeds... to to hit play and see the image on the back screen in bright sun would be nice.. I presume the sun hits that back sensor and shuts off the back screen because it works in normal inside or non sunlight areas..

[@nicedward7544]

I use full mechanical always. These newer cameras with no mech shutter scare me.

[@EvanA.]

Me: Wait, it's *NOT* clickbait? Jason: Never was. 🤜🤛

[@realersu1708]

I finally know where that morr scrip is from silent shutter...damn it

[@godsson2974]

Silent shutter wish I knew sooner too

[@mynameisnotcory]

I was taking pictures of a metal band and i didnt realize my camera got switched to auto…it was blasting silent shutters off like crazy and luckily the lack of sound had me thinking my camera broke! And the pictures turned up banded /:

[@farhadtarapore]

Lot of folks facing issues with mechanical shutters breaking on their sony alpha cameras :( Silent shutter may be the way to go

[@scottr303]

Great tips! Thanks

[@jeffmichaels2672]

Nice Jason. Thanks 💪🙌

[@CC-gt3ro]

I used silent mode in wildlife without any issues. Photo and video. I don’t use it indoor or in city outside, just for wildlife.

[@waky123]

thanks for amazing information

[@ChillVibesAT]

How is the silent shutter on the A7iv/A7Cii?

[@Tyrellco7]

Clases Yoga, meditación, etc ITS PERFECT. SO, with natural light not artificial lights

[@gerikmd]

Does using silent shutter save shutter count life? Any thoughts?

[@teabaggins3517]

It is saving. With silent shutter there's no moving physical parts so it does not affect shutter life at all. It's the main reason I use it on Riii, but I did experience banding and weird distortion when things move fast. Not the best thing but I use it 90% of the time

[@RahulVanganicreations]

Damn son, tip 7 & 8! Never used it in the last several years of using Sony xD

[@cameraprepper7938]

I hope that Sony will make a warning signal when the APSC mode is active, I have often forgot to switch the APSC mode off when in a hurry.

[@JasonVong]

There is that small symbol but I do agree! There needs to be more obvious indications when we are in certain modes. For example I think Fuji has a different REC color when you’re recording in slow motion which is handy to know that you’re in a mode that’s not capturing audio.

[@cameraprepper7938]

@@JasonVong In mine Sony A7RIV Cameras I have not even symbol for APSC !

[@jozsefkovecses3461]

A6700 is menu 2.0 or menu 1.0?

[@muzlee7479]

2.0

[@jawilli312]

Good Stuff - Thanks

[@saritk71]

Oh my god🙏

[@dollhausenx]

And as I've had happen, forgetting to turn off APS-C mode and wondering why my lens seems so tight these days...

[@AQANVISUALS]

LEETTTSSSS GOOOOOOO ANOTHER VID !! Lol

[@AlwaaliCulturalHouse]

well done

[@JanLeviSanchez]

Dang.. this is so helpful

[@DaPoets]

Solid video