I really enjoy your videos, you go much deeper than the vast majority of the videos out there. Thanks for your time and effort, most appreciated.

Thanks for your in-depth analyses and nice presentation of these most essential focus features. And thanks for putting a smile on my face.

That zoom feature is awesome Gary!! I just enabled it on my A7r II, but did need to change the Zoom Settings to Digital or ClearImage as apposed to optical only. Makes perfect sense, but it took me a second to figure it out... Thanks again for the excellent tips and brilliantly detailed explanations as always ;)

Wish you best luck from South Korea. I have watched tons of youtube videos discussing Sony cameras(mostly talking about same features) but I always learn some exclusive, specific, and special knowledge from you. Thanks a lot.

This video alone, more than anything I have read on the A7RII has made me want to sell my existing gear and go Sony. Thanks.

Thank you, Gary, for making a video that far exceeds the user manual!

Great video Gary, I thought this was going to be a little boring, however, the information and the way you demonstrate to explain was first class and easy for me to understand without getting too technical. Thank you.

Thanks Mr Gary. As always the best teacher in Photography.

Thanks Gary for pointing out a few features I wasn't aware off yet. Cool stuff.

Lots of nice information. Good work.

Gary - your blah, blahs are so true, A7rii book is the best reference on this camera yet produced. Thanks. btw your video channel rocks and became my goto place to get the info I needed that cinched my purchasing this beast of a camera.

Great information Gary, very useful information. Thank you so much!

Thank you. I appreciated your calm detailed teaching style.

Thank you very much Gary, this is an excellent wrap of a7Rii focus modes! I have very limited finger movement, so any clever automation is highly appreciated. I would love to see some voice activation of a subset of the camera's functionality,. superb camera and again thanks for your hard work. Buying the book!

Thank you for the clear, concise information and steps to use. I have shared with friends.

Very helpful video to help understand how to approach the confusing and messy and hard/slow to change in a shooting situation....AF system.

Dear Gary, Thanks for an excellent explanation how the focusing works. I have your book and would highly recommend it. I do think the focusing modes on the A7RII is to complicated, to many options.

Excellent video. I have your book. The video augments is nicely.

I Bought the book Gary. Thanks for sharing, I think your videos are wonderful.

By the way, I bought your ebook on the A7RII and it's worth every penny, so much better than the other "literature" I could find about this great little camera. Much more in-depth content.

That zoom feature is a good tool to have for video especially when I have all prime lenses thanks for the info

Really helpful tips, learned a lot!

Watching this video should be mandatory for any Sony mirrorless owner! Thanks! And yes I've ordered your upcoming A7iii book :-)

Excellent Video on focus modes - thank you

Very interesting and informative. Thanks!

Thanks for the zoom tip! Pretty cool. Clear zoom you can zoom in 2x and digital zoom 4x for stills only in jpeg.

Enjoyed your video and your eBook on Sony Alpha 7r II. You are the very first guy who managed to show me the nuance of those autofocus options on Sony A7r II. Your eBook is very comprehensive and fun to read. I have both the A7 II and A7r II. It seems to me that the only way to check if the time and date set on your camera is by taking a picture first and then check the time stamp on the playback picture. I wonder if there is another way of checking without taking a picture or scrolling through to the Date/Time sub menu? Many Thanks.

Awesome info on the V and H line demonstration. Could you explain the differences silence and mechanical shutter on the a7rii?

The power zoom function works great on my videos that I shoot on my A6000, thanks much for the great info:)

Great videos you make Gary. I'm just wondering what focus area setting you think is the most reliable for focusing on moving subjects; center lock on AF, flexible spot lock on AF, lock on AF Expand flexible spot, etc.?

Thanks Gary, very informative.

I purchased your book... thank you Very informative

HI. Thank you for your videos. Currently I have a fe16-35 f4 on an a7r2 but I notice that in manual focus mode the focus length scale that appears on the screen in feet and meters does not match reality. That is to say that I manually focus to infinity and in the scale of the screen I appear 7 meters when I should put infinite. This is an inconvenience for example when photographing artifacts in the dark. It's the same for you. Is there any way to correct it or is it a factory default. Thank you

Hi Gary, many thanks for this video!!! let me know if in your book I can find section about focus settings for landscapes, I have really hard time after switching after 15 years with canon, or maybe I need more time with 7r II (got it two days ago)

Great info !!! Thank very much Sir.

I'd love to be able to 'Toggle' the Eye AF on or off, to use on Continuous Focus. Is there a way to do this? I find that holding down an extra button while firing the shutter always throws off my steady hand and introduces motion blur (I'm always at the edge of too slow a shutter speed). Is there any way to Toggle it, use the shutter release half-press, or . . . ?? Thanks!

Very interesting explanation about the limitations of lenses designed for phase detect AF on cameras designed for contrast detect AF like the the Nex7. What it made me wonder is if the reverse is also true ie do Sony aps-c lenses designed for older cameras like the Nex7 work worse than FE lenses on more modern cameras like the A7RII? However I have since found out that all Sony E-mount lenses support pdaf that answers my question.

You're a wizard Gary!

Are you making videos/books on a7siii and a7c?

Very informative video! I would just like to know, is that the 24-70 ZA version 1 lens or version 2?

should i use phase o contrast autofocus for video?

Thank you Very informative.

Hi Gary, This video helps to push me towards the mirrorles world. I shoot weddings with two a99. I know they not perfect cameras but I still trust better in the dslt technology in darker places like a church. What do you thing this new sony cameras good for weddings? Sorry for my bad English.

Can anyone explain to me how the meter gauge using the eye piece for in camera metering on Sony systems works? It flashes but its difficult to get the indicator to show how far negative or positive the exposure is in a constant fashion. I mean it shows then disappears leaving one to guess which is quite different than Canon or Nikon system.

Great information Sir, thank you. This camera's auto-focus seems very useful. By the way, do you also review any Fuji cameras? I've been checking KZfaq and surprised to know that Fuji photographers are really badmouthing Sony's camera. What they keep on saying sound very subjective and not true.

Great video! Thank you. =)

There's a big problem. The Sony A7RII can't track to save it's life and before anyone comments, I own the A7RII and it's the greatest camera I have ever used - except when it comes to tracking. Sony G lenses suffer from focus shifting i.e. the focus acquired when the lens is wide open shifts when the lens closes to a smaller preset aperture. So they "solved" this issue, via a firmware update, by changing the focusing system. It now acquires a basic lock wide open, then closes to the preset aperture, refocuses and then tries to track. Unfortunately at f8 the awesome phase detection AF disables and the camera hunts like you wouldn't believe! I was using a 200mm lens at a fashion show and at under 30 feet the area of focus is less than 3 feet using f8. So to ensure I got the clothing sharp I set the aperture at f8 and my lens hunted and missed the focus time and time again! Remember, the models were walking at less than 5mph and it could even track that speed. I switched to my other telephotos, all top lenses and it happened with each and every one of them. Sony are aware of the problem and have been for over a year since they have been inundated with compaints about this.The majority of owners have requested a firmware update allowing a choice of focusing either wide open or closed - and they've done nothing. Don't believe me, try it and see what happens or if you haven't the time go on the net and look it up, you'll find lots of complaints on the subject. So if you want an awesome camera for motionless subjects get the A7RII but if you shoot subjects that move, forget it and buy a DSLR. One last thought... I was considering buying the new A9 and then I realised if Sony have wrecked the A7RII with this via the firmware what's to stop them doing it with the A9? Be wary buying either of them. In the meantime I and many thousands of others are stuck with a camera that's fine as long as what we shoot is basically dead and not moving until Sony get their finger out and fix the problem. One unhappy A7RII owner...

@9:25, You say the baked in AF points can only detect hosizontal lines. You should update the video with some text to say you made a mistake, as what I think you meant to say was "VERTICAL" lines, no?

I can't find if the Sony FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS Lens has face detection. It's the only autofocus I have for my A7s ii and I want to use it to film myself but it hasn't been working lately. I'm thinking the camera or lens broke or maybe it never worked. Idk

Hello Gary!! When the a7rII guide in spanish?

amazing video thank you so much. its my 5th day with it and i was kinda confoosed. although, the zoom option is greyed out for me in the menu, would you know why?

Fabulous. Thank you.

you're a genius, thanks for this video

dear gary, i recently bought the a7rii and used it in a concert. my photos of the players were not tack sharp. i was in afc mode, high shutter mode. my f stop was 5-5.6 and shutter speed 1/160, iso 10,000. no flash was allowed. what am i doing wrong or how would you have made the settings so the faces of the musicians were sharp. thank you

@11:50, Oh, I need AF-C mode....Its a mess to me still, even expert Fary is stumbled. and arounf 14:50, another slew of different focus modes to juggle. We are supposed to swap around these settings in a instance of a shoot to figure what works best in the situation? Wow!

Why do I only used focus setting only once ... so I have to tap into the menu again ? Sony A7Rii What am I doing wrong ?

Gary I need clarification re. 9:19 in the video: "the baked in phase detect AF points can only detect horizontal lines"-----> shouldn't that be "vertical lines"? Since the camera did find AF on the vertical line, but not the horizontal ? Thanks so much for your informative videos.

you are the man.

Does face recognition work with the La ea4 + Minolta 80-200 2.8? Also how would you say the af-c tracking works with the la ea4 + minolta 80-200 2.8?

Great video, fantastic explanation. Please get a lapel mic though, the fluctuation in audio levels isn't good

I tried setting zoom for the down button but it did not work, please explain. I change to video mode on camera using a 24-70 lens but hitting the down button while video was recording did not work.

A7RIII will need a AF selector wheel on the top left empty spot of the camera! Besides overall improvement on how it focuses.

The Zoom function appears to be a bit more complicated to set up than simply assigning it to a Custom Button as your video implies, because it also depends on what 'Zoom Setting' has been selected in Custom Settings [3]. It also depends on whether or not the Mode Dial has been set to Movie. To be fair, you introduced this as something for videographers, but this Zoom function can also be used for stills - just as long as you're not shooting RAW. But thanks for the tip, because I hadn't realised it was there until I started fiddling with that horrid menu system again!

Good video! Is your A7R2 screen on upside down?? Manu defect? Can see around the 11:30 mark.

I'm confused??? You show how phase detection has a hard time picking up horizontal lines but easily picks up vertical lines. At 9:18 you say "So the take away point here is the baked in phase detect auto focus points can only detect HORIZONTAL LINES." Did you really mean to say VERTICAL LINES?

Why are you the only reviewer/user that highlights the weakness with horizontal lines and PDAF. To me its a bit issue even today in the A7riii, A7iii, and A9, Can't seem to convince others this is an issue. Canons cross-type focus points don't have this issue even thought there are a lot less of them. Can Sony fix this?

Thanx for the vid. However regarding the zoom my camera say "This operation or setting not available as follows - Zoom setting - optical zoom only. Any ideas?

Does the power zoom function work on the a77?

Great review, very infromative, thank you. In this context it would help a lot if you could pronounce "phase" [feɪz] vs "face" [feɪs] correctly.

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It's useless, you can't use it when shooting RAW.