Setting up Sony A7IV for wedding photography - full walkthrough & customisation

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Setting up Sony A7IV for wedding photography - full walkthrough & customisation - 40 MIN!

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In this video I'm giving a full walkthrough on how to set up your Sony A7IV for wedding photography. I break down all the options, tips and tricks, and what is useful for our field of photography. Also I show how I set up my custom buttons and menus, but I do encourage to setting up your camera to suit how you shoot.
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@danielscholz4117 Жыл бұрын

Simply put, the best walkthrough to get your Sony A7IV up to speed, period. Much appreciated - you are awesome!

@MurrayMcMillan73 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding video-outstanding. Just got my A7iv and this has helped me enormously in terms of a guide to go forward with. Have my first pre wedding shoot with it on Saturday, then Monday for another, then a wedding next Saturday. I’d love to see you do a flash set up video if you have time please! Outstanding content, best Sony guides on YT.

@DevonLad 2 жыл бұрын

I have a Custom Shoot button set to something I call "Mayday Mayday". It is full auto, no restrictions on things like ISO range. Everything is programmed to let me get 'that shot, no matter what'. I've only used it once. Lights went off and the ceremony room went pretty dark as Bride was half way down the aisle. I pressed my mayday button because I didn't have the 2 or 3 seconds needed to dial in the new settings. Very handy! :-)

@tomaszmajkowski8186 2 жыл бұрын

On Sony A7 IV, you can backup all camera settings to SD card. You can restore them on another A7 IV !

@titanspirit7238 2 жыл бұрын

I just got my A7iv , 35mm gm and 85mm sigma lenses today. Going to copy your setup for now and tweak it later on. I like your content my guy, I'm hoping to swap careers to be a wedding photographer this year so I have enjoyed listening to you. Thanks for doing your videos, much appreciated.

@raysmith3957 Жыл бұрын

Good morning Magic, can you do a video on shooting a group photo of 5 or more people of a bridal party.. demonstrating the best focus mode to use ... with the a7iv camera.. I kinda struggle with this.. should I turn off my eye af. When I do group of people. Thanks Ray

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

Hey Ray! What I do is just focus and track main person in the middle (bride/groom). And in order to make sure everyone is in focus just extend depth of field by using higher f stop like f/2.8-4

@hulsey247 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for all the clarifications, all of these setting you just can't learn from reading a manual!!

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

@erg1450 Жыл бұрын

excellent and useful, I was struggling with white balance, having a dedicated button and not use AWB seem to b working for me now

@pocolocophotographers 9 ай бұрын

Magic! Thank you so much

@eike.zender Жыл бұрын

I really would love to see a video of what's the "magic" way to manage low light situations, just as in ambient (let's say "bad") lighting conditions for - example on the dining and dancing location ❤️

@magischehochzeit Жыл бұрын

Really great video. Just got a pair of 7iv. You really helped me. I will definitely watch all your videos. Thx

@nickwilliams6716 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of useful advice as always. AEL w/ shutter is very handy especially when using spot metering plus tracking.

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nick! True, ael with shutter can be handy. And especially if you’re just used to it :)

@joshuareyes7442 2 жыл бұрын

This came at the perfect time! Just got my A7iv yesterday.

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing indeed! Enjoy you camera!

@kimw994 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for helping- just switching from Fuji - and really everything is different ..:-) (great work!)

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! Hope you will enjoy your Sonys!

@MurrayMcMillan73 2 жыл бұрын

I’m just switching too Kim- how has it been?

@user-kp1dq8rz6p 2 жыл бұрын

Great I learned locust I aimed my camera as I saw in your video Thank you from Israel (Ephraim)

@JairusJoy 2 жыл бұрын

My G! I always love your thumbnails really catchy!!

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@Daniel_Ilyich 5 ай бұрын

So thankful for this tutorial!

@stfu6397 Жыл бұрын

good explanations

@AidaGlowik 2 жыл бұрын

Magic, you absolutely delivered in this video! Thank you so much!

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

@faebbs 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Magic!

@nycks1 2 жыл бұрын

Any chance of doing a video on shooting Aperture Priority Mode for weddings?

@balboaphotographie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so mush, exactly what i need 👍

@ASX2001 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Very helpful.

@BrayoFitnessTrainer 10 ай бұрын

thank you much!

@ShayStandardPhotography Жыл бұрын

Thank you, this helped a bunch!

@PhotogenicProperties 2 жыл бұрын

Great content Magic! Well done!

@selftauhgt 2 жыл бұрын

Hey!! Thank you for the informational content very straight forward. You mentioned your custom setup for flash memory recall, would you mind doing a video to show us as you did this one. Thanks in advance☺️

@Minibarparty 2 жыл бұрын

yeah that would be nice, very helpful the rest

@veselinvasilev9362 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ronlemelinphotography 2 жыл бұрын

WOW! great video!

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

@ondrasheq21 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks

@jamesseward9263 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!!💕 Thank you! 🤗

@wilvan7778 Жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation and video . Before changing all these values , should the knob be on AUTO ? Thank you

@Revan89 2 жыл бұрын

Im still waiting for my 2 Sony A7iv to arrive. I plan on using "Reg. Custom Shoot Set" for the confetti shots. While holding the custom button on my lens I will activate Hi+ drive, minimum shutter speed of 1/500 and tracking sensitivity to 1. Hope is doable.

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

I like this! It should work!

@adam_kozlowski 2 жыл бұрын

You are finally using aperture priority 🎉🎉🎉💪🏻💪🏻

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Yes 😁

@adam_kozlowski 2 жыл бұрын

Very good one!

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

@kostasrestas 2 жыл бұрын

is there any way to creative look off .. ? i mean, you can set picture profile to off but at creative look you have to choose one mandatory???

@flamonaut 2 жыл бұрын

Magic! Great Video. Thx for that. Are you aware of efcs effect on bokeh with fast shutter speeds? Or is this not relevant due to mechanical shutter only?

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, it does "cut" the bokeh balls in certain situations, but I did not find it problematic in real life scenario to be honest

@owczarzaknorman9994 Жыл бұрын

Hey Magic, do you use that Frame rate limit option to prevent evf from lagging in low light condition shooting with on camera flash?

@pedro-pascualsilvera2982 Жыл бұрын

When adjusting the settings in picture mode to raw, then switching to movie mode and going back to picture mode it automatically changes to jpeg all the time, any idea why it won't save the settings? Thanks for the video btw🙌

@goldphotovideo Жыл бұрын

Hi , thanks for your great videos,- can you connect external flashes via cable in this camera? I've been having a lot of issues with this camera and the hotshoes--sent it to Sony /buying the multiple part involve fort this hot shoes/ changing all godox flashes for the new metal hot shoes- and at the end this camera is really unreliable for photography. hotshoes becomes loose frequently and do not recognize flashes when turning the camera up and down. the only way is to connect external flashes via cable to it. I don't know how to do it since it doesn't have a sync port. any help will be appreciated.Thanks ohhh have you tried by multifuntion port?

@charlescalleja97 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark for the valuable info. One question pls if i update my A74 with new firm wear will I loose the camera settings ? thank you charlie

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

Nope! You will not. You can also save your camera settings to memory card just in case!

@danielpierce8136 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Has it felt like a sacrifice at all stepping down in megapixels from the A7RIII to the A7IV? Has it limited you at all?

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Not at all! It feels actually amazing, I do prefer 33mp over 42mp, I can fit more photos on cards and it still gives me plenty for cropping. And all the other features of A7IV feel way superior over A7RIII - there’s no way back.

@danielpierce8136 2 жыл бұрын

@@MagicWeddingPhotographer Awesome! Thats good to know. I'm coming from a single A7RIV and trying to decide to buy a second RIV body or downsize my files to two A7IV's so that's helpful feedback.

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

@@danielpierce8136 RIV is way better than RIII, but would still probably be keen to move down to 33mpx. Depending what’s your real motivation for switch here. From RIII there is plenty af, body, dual fast card slot, EVF, screen. While from RIV it’s gonna be mostly megapixels, ISO performance, video.

@adicer9619 Жыл бұрын

Hi...have you changed raw format from uncompressed to one of losseless variants?

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

Nope! I shoot compressed

@mkondeja 2 жыл бұрын

Czy mam coś źle ustawione bo gdy ja wcisnę przycisk eye af to zielony boks pojawia się najczęściej przy osobie w środku kadru (przy kilku osobach na zdjęciu), a nie najbliższej do punktu ostrości?

@nicolaussuryadharma 2 жыл бұрын

Hey , can you help me with my sony a7iv because when i took a photo on my sony a7iv and then i look on my monitor is different with the viewfinder. When i move it to my computer it’s looks more similar with the monitor preview. Maybe you can help me with your experience while take a picture with sony fullframe because this is my first full frame camera. Thanks

@lauriewahlig2819 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Haven’t seen someone using only Mechanical shutter for awhile. Using the A1, I only use the electronic shutter. Can you explain your reasoning? Thanks so much

@crowking76 2 жыл бұрын

Mechanical shutter prevents from rolling shutter effect for slower readout sensors as rolling shutter applies for stills too for [fast] moving objects.

@papsny 2 жыл бұрын

Not everyone has an a1 and you need mech shutter for flash. But of course, a lot of people dont do ocf.. unfortunately..

@kiszelamateusz 2 жыл бұрын

Hej ! Jak z pompowaniem na wyższych f ? Da się tym w końcu błyskać ?

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Nie pompuje, obejrzyj to: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLlzi66T0ajHk3k.html

@calincharles 2 жыл бұрын

Have you found a large amount of noise in your shadows on the a7IV? I’ve experienced it with mine, and have seen Reddit threads of people experiencing the same thing. I feel like pushing my iso anywhere higher than 400 is a no-go if I want a clean image

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

I actually did not find anything unusual (at least comparing to A7RIII), but I'll dig into it