Wow thanks so much. That is really nice of you to say.

@@MarkSmithphotography I think that you will find that you are the one saying it my friend. About 15 years ago I was advised to start creating KZfaq vids... something tells me that I have missed the boat! Keep your tuts going and me thinks it might be time for me to subscribe - you will be the first I subscribe to if I get around to it! Entertaining education is your forte... "poop"... as you might well say! :) BTW, I would have a go at your Mom and Dad for their great use of imagination when they chose your forename considering your 'unusual' surname... just saying !! If I had the gelt I would be in your midst under your inspiration. Unfortunately I live across the pond so it is a bit of trek. One can never stop learning. I was in tears watching you and your exhausted thankful pal sitting in your hands wholly trusting you before humming its way off again. Anyway, this fanboy is off to bed as I have a full day's shoot tomorrow!

I agree !!

Good luck on your shoot tomorrow.

Ha... very kind of you but it was only a Mayor Making Parade - full of old and bold wearing wigs and gowns and that was only the men! It went ok thanks but I woke up this morning feeling weirdly faint so not really on top of my game today.

Thanks for the compliments. Good to hear you found it useful.

That is awesome!

Thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate it.

Sounds interesting but I really like to control both the aperture and shutter speed on my own. I'm constantly changing both of those as I see fit.

@@MarkSmithphotography you are preaching to the choir, I shot full manual for over 20 years (and still do on my a7R3). Being Aperture Priority mode you obviously still fully control aperture. And in using the "AUTO ISO min. SS" setting, you do also control SS. But in cases where your camera runs out of the ability to expose, then and only then does it dip into the SS. This is not your normal Aperature Priority mode, you DO get to control SS most of the time. I first switched over to this shooting method for sports and racing. Only when I run out of light do I start loosing SS, but usually it nails my requested SS or faster. The plus here is more even exposures over groups of photos. With the a9, you can turn a 3 second burst of 60 photos into almost a 3 second video clip (every shot is in focus and evenly exposed usually). When I was shooting those in manual and panned from where I set exposure past a direct sun or brighter (or darker) area, the images would start blowing out and going too dark. Since the a9 can set exposure in 1/60 second, it can literally set focus accurately 3 times for every shot taken at 20fps. That fast exposure engine is part of the technology you pay so much money for in the a9, why not use it? I was always a manual exposure guy, because I could absolutely set exposure better than the camera. But the a9 can do it better and light years faster, you just have to learn the metering system and fine tune the buttons for fast adjustments. The camera will then get you the SAME exposure settings you yourself would have done, but do that for each photo taken. And in a 20fps burst where you pan in and out of over exposing light areas, you are going to loose shots due to over or under exposure in manual mode, especially at 20fps. The key for me was assigning "AUTO ISO Min. SS" to the C2 button and locking the focusing andmetering spot together like you did in the video. And technically, you arent shooting in full Manual anyway. You trust the camera to set ISO and White Balance from what I could tell in your settings. So why not try this, the a9 will surprise you on how good it will expose for you within several constraints and priorities you place on it? Its like going o e more step beyond AUTO ISO and AWB. Your focusing and other settings are spot on for BiF. Any way thanks for sharing Mark.

I'm not getting uneven exposure when I shoot bursts. Perhaps it's because I'm not shooting such high bursts though. What's the max shutter speed the camera will choose?

@@MarkSmithphotography the max normally is 1/32,000, but let me do a test in this mode and make sure it's not limiting it to say 1/8,000 (which I've seen it go to that in this mode) That AUTO ISO Min. SS is more about creating a constraint on the lower end of the SS not the upper so I suspect it will go to the max 1/32000. The reason you are getting even exposures in bursts even when panning is you havent run out of room on your AUTO ISO yet. It happens to me all the time shooting sports in artificial lights. Rarely do I see my ISO dropping towards 100, I'm usually pushing it to my max setting (I dont let it go higher than 6400 in artificial lighting). I wont be buying the 400 f/2.8 any time soon, so my biggest struggle is getting enough light out if the 100-400GM and still be able to stop the action. When I'm shooting outdoors, most of the time light is usually the opposite problem, so the AUTO ISO simply keeps lowering down to 100 to deal with excess of light, as I pan and burst at the same time. Believe me, I get you on Manual (w/ AUTO ISO and AWB). Just letting you know you now have a tool with settings (and some practice) that can get you the exposure settings you would have manually chosen but at 1/60 of a second. I LOVE being able to have a camera system that now handles focusing and exposure so advanced, that I get to focus on composition and the story of the shot. Great times to be a photographer. Have a great day Mark!

@@Hangs4Fun awesome. Thanks for the great info. I'll have to play around with it.

Ahh, that is great info.

Thanks

Awesome

Thanks

Where can I buy the ebook?

I’m right there with you. Thank goodness for Mark putting this together.

thanks

M2 Fabulous training video. Cant wait to practice my new settings and truly enjoy the fab a9

Excellent guide to set-up. Although I've had my A9 for 2 years you've helped iron out functionality I have been having difficulty with. Thank you