I have just bought the camera and I find your tutorial extremely helpful 74 years things tend to be confusing but yours was excellent thank you

I just finished watching this video and I just got a hand on my a7rii for a month. This video is totally a game changer THANK U so much for taking your time and put so much effort into this video. It does help me out a lot (From a very amateur fullframe camera user lol) As I’m looking forward to get the best use out of the a7rii and this video is TOTALLY HELPFUL. Thank youu☺️💗🙏🏻

Thanks so much! I've had my camera for over a year and didn't know how to optimize it - thanks for the info and I'm definitely subscribing!

Best settings review I've seen for this camera. Solves allot of problems that people complain about with Sony's menu system. I'm going to emulate these settings for mine because this makes allot of sense. Great video bro, you have a subscriber in me.

I was checking the tutorials on the A7rii, yours is the best. great help, thanks

This is good stuff Brian. Being new to the Sony system, it helps having these pointers in setting their camera up. Some functions I was looking for you highlighted which is exceptionally helpful. Thanks bud!

Brian, I have been a Nikon system shooter for a long time and found it to be a painful learning curve. I have also reviewed many online sites and KZfaq videos. This by far has been the most useful video for me. Thank you very much!

thanks bro, I just get my A7r2 today, and your video helps me a lot！

Great selection of tips. Very helpful. Thanks for taking the time!

Thanks a lot for the video mate, I got my Sony a7rii recently and this will help me a great deal to understand and get the max out of it.

Thanks Inhave had this amazing camera for a long time but you definitely had some really good tips and tricks in this video.

Great video and helpful points. Just got the Sony a7rII and really loving it. Your video helps a lot. Thanks!

Fantastic! These videos are coming in handy as I move from my Nikon D810 to the Sony system.

Great advice. I use this for video work predominantly but am looking to do some landscape photography during my downtime.

Very well done and helpful. Thanks for taking the time to make and share.

Great suggestions, very informative and helpful. I really appreciate your logic.

Great video! Helped me out so much the ending was a good tip to end off on.

Steady Shot, fantastic. I just got this camera and couldn't figure out how to turn off is

Really useful video man. Good work 👌

Thank you very helpful indeed..and well presented🙌🏽

Great video! I learned a lot in just one hour!

This is a great video for all Sony alpha users. So glad to learn about the "no limit" focus magnification time. My blood pressure during manual focusing is about to get a lot better!

Excellent video, what's the largest size print can you do without losing detail and sharpness?

Excellent! Your suggestion to turn turn "auto review" off is the best. This drove me crazy until now. Thank you!

Great advice. Thanks for sharing 👍👍

Thanks for the tips man!

Brian .................... You're one of the best.

Very useful information! Thanks!

Great review of settings Brian - thanks for making this video. I learned quite a bit from you! One note: you can use "Send to Smartphone" when in "Playback" mode by pressing the Function button. Not quite as convenient as C3, but better than hunting for it in the menus.

Very helpful even though I have an A 6000. I like to see how each setting works with the image posted as you show the changes thru the camera.

Wow, thanks this is sooooo helpful!!!

Very good explanation sir.I like it. Thanks.

Thank you so much for helping me!🙏🏻

thanks for expelling so clear.

I am thinking of buying this...Thanks for helpful video.

Fantastic info...thank u so much!!

Thank you very much... the next step in this avocation is happening now..

This is great, Brian. Can you do more of these exploring some of your less-used settings?

Fantastic video! Really helpful stuff. I'm getting the beast this week along with a G Master 24-70 lens. Question: what is the camera strap I see you holding the camera with and do you like it? Thanks, I'm a new subscriber!

Wonderful tips! Thanks

Thank you, sir. It was informative and helpful:)

what a helpful video. thanks for sharing.

the best video ever ...thank you!

I just got this baby and this video helped a lot. Thank you.

hey there i recently got the a7r mark ii and i was wondering if i could move my focus point while shooting and not just lock the focus point somewhere and then go take the shot, can i move my focus point like the sony a7r mark iii does with the joystick

Do you know if there's a way to set a custom key or function menu to change my camera to APS-C/Super 35mm? Thanks

Awesome video thanks!

Great job Brian, thank for share :) Could you advise which Sony lens for a7rii all in one features shooting please? Hope you don't mind to share :)

Do you have a preferred travel tripod for this camera?

Great tips

What do you set your Creative Style at? Standard, Clear, Neutral, etc?

very well explained.

Brian - really useful video - I have made some changes to my setup based on this. The app you showed - is it available for android or can you suggest an alternative?

Brian Big Thanx!!!! Helped a lot! :-)

Thanks Brian, I just borrowed some of your settings that work for me. One added tip for those that want the benefits of smaller file sizes but still want uncompress raw: Use Adobe's DNG raw format. Its a lossless compression that is much more efficient then Sony's ARW Raw format. My uncompressed DNG images were < 50MB....

I’ve been sharing my photos to my iPhone Xmas using the PlayMemories application, my question is Will this application send my pictures at low resolution if I set the camera at quality Raw?

Thanks for the information. I'm currently shooting with a Nikon and use back button focussing. Do you ever use this feature on the Sony and if you did which custom button would you use to set it up? Thanks.

Duh I never thought to take the auto preview off. Thank you for that info

Great Video Can you tell me the name of the app you used in the video

thanks. great video.

thank you bro !!

@5:15 There is a lot of confusion about Long Exposure Noise Reduction all over the internet. Even low ISO Long Exposure shots suffer from noise/grain due to the background radiation present all around us. What LE NR does is not processing for a minute but it takes a reference shot to determine the severity and pattern of the background noise which is then subtracts from the LE image it shot before. If it is wise to turn it off depends on your situation. Smaller sensors (MFT for example) suffer more from background noise and therefore really need LE NR. Full frame sensors have less of a problem but the A7R with its high resolution obviously suffers more than the regular A7. So leaving it on might be a good idea actually. But I completely agree that the wait after taking the shot feels like hours ;-)

Thanks - I just migrated to Sony A7RII from a Pentax system and found the menus a little awkward. Your video was very helpful in shedding light on these very useful settings.

Great content

Great video thanks

Thank you! it helps a lot :)

Almost same settings... Great review!

What about the speed of write to the SD card? How do you minimize that? Some say it can take up to 8 seconds.

Have an suggestions or a place to point me in the direction to for choosing color profile for shooting stills on the a7rii? I've always had the PP turned off until recently I started to truly do video with the camera. Can't seem to find many articles for stills regarding s-log2, cine1/2/3/4, and also color mode. I've currently got mine in cine4 and in ITU709 but there's so much more you can do. Thanks in advance!

Brilliant! Thanks.

Just jumped from my Sony A99SLT and A6500 to this camera - had no idea it had eye AF!

Hello Brian, can i know why the movie i shot with my sony alfa 7rii are playing too slow on my laptop?

Turning off the "Auto Review" setting made all the difference when shooting. Thanks for the tip!

Really helpful thanks

Nice vid Brian Tnx,)

The camera is most likely taking a dark frame of equal exposure time to subtract out the "hot" pixels with the long exposure NR on.

Thanks Brian ...

amazing thanks !

Long exposure NR does not take another minute to process. It takes another picture at the exact same exposure settings and compares. This mainly removes hot pixels caused by the long exposure heating the sensor. Not regular noise caused by high iso.

Nice job, thx

slight derrence to greens when I downloaded.used ancient windows 7, as Mac version was was not available. 1. a screen where you enter your Curren version and new version in 2 boxes. I got a lens fw upgrade at same time, both downloaded, virtually together - 2 progress bars. downloaded from sony isa. camera as bought in oz. good updates. prob. last, as camera now superseded? I updated in spring'18. blog screens may be more recent - Mac version was obviously available. helpful video, take the to do it right, first time.-ie no interruptions.

Why do you waste a button for focus Area? You can do this and more with focus settings, the focus area is instantly affected by just turning the dial.

Best video!!!

Hello, can anyone tell me the name of the application you use for transfert pictures to your iPhone in this video ? thanks !

Crazy I followed along with you changed from Jpeg to Raw+ Jpeg but my file sizes didn't increase. I'm still getting 1616 x1080 photos. Any idea why this might be happening? Using an A7R2

Does anyone know how to turn the flash mode off on M for the Sony A7r ii?

Nice One

hey Can I Map APS-C Crop Mode on some custom Buttons for fast switching!

The Sony a7rii is a classic.

Turn Pre-AF to off and always set camera to Airplane mode (only on it if you need to transfer pic to devices) will save you alot battery juice too.

Brian, just curious. Hooking your camera to your computer for recording, can you explain how to set that up?

Thumbs up for awesome pearls!

In your review I noticed that your setting for Raw was uncompressed. I find that under most normal shooting scenarios that the difference between raw compressed & raw uncompressed is not that noticeable yet shooting uncompressed doubles the size of each picture you shoot from 42 meg to a whopping 84 meg.

2022 and I’m still using it as my professional body

Hi Brian, do you have any solution for geotagging photos from a7RII?

My purpose is to click grayscale images for specimen in laboratory. Does this camera has that feature?

I want to know app name on phone control to camera.

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I do have a question. In a studio setting where ample light can be added: Is 100 ISO the most desirable? I heard that 160 ISO and multiples of 160 are best for clarity.

TIP: With long exposure noise reduction the camera isn't taking "about a minute to process the image", what it's doing is taking a "dark exposure" of the same duration as the main exposure, the dark exposure is effectively letting no light onto the sensor but the exposure will generate the same noise in the same locations as the main exposure, the camera then uses the dark exposure as a mask to remove the noise in the main exposure