Sony Camera Basics! | Understanding Your Camera Dial

Understand Each Mode On Your Sony Alpha Camera | A6400 A7iii A7Siii

A step by step guide on what each mode on your Sony camera does

Thanks for checking out this video. This is an explanation for each dial on your Sony camera. And why you may want to use one over the other depending on the situation.

I know what it was like to have my first camera and not know what all the modes meant. So hopefully this video can help someone out and get them one step closer to creating the art they want.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Using a pro camera for the 1st time
1:58 - Exposure Triangle Note
2:50- Auto Mode
3:50- “P” Program Auto
4:35- “A” Aperture Priority
5:47- “S” Shutter Priority
6:37- Exposure Compensation
7:58- “M” Manual Mode
9:09- “MR” Memory Recall
10:16- Movie Mode
11:01- “S&Q” Slow and Quick
12:01- Panorama
12:15 “SCN” Scene Selection
12:42- Outro

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[ulrohermit]

I love how he says "dear" in the end of every sentence, it's kinda sweet

[xgogbcy]

I'm only 2 minutes into your video atm, but just have to say THANK YOU. I'm a BEGINNER beginner. I have no idea what half of the things on my a6400 do, so thank you so much for this vid! 🎉

[no_shoes]

Coming from using things like a Red Dragon and black magic Ursa's for film school, getting this camera for my own personal use was ironically quite intimidating. I like the challenge and wanted to have my own camera and your video is a big help in explaining the modes. Very clear, and the editing and presentation aren't over top and are overall very calming. Cheers man!

[tonydeano]

As a beginner. I have watched your video on “ aperture triangle” along with this video. I must have to say, both presentation and explanation have been excellent. Thank you, and look forward to seeing more of your video content. Regards Tony.

[topicruben]

Always awesome an explanation and a clarification about these basic rules that sometimes we can forget. Thanks for sharing. Great work 👏

[bethanynagy]

you are speaking right to me! i am a beginner and am coming from an iphone. thanks for all the tips. and I love your voice!! like you say, "big up to you!"

[ReedCSings]

You nailed the problem statement and the question I have when coming to this video. Thank you!

[neilong]

Thank you for this tutorial, really helped me a lot 🙌🏽

[willtalbottt]

this was super helpful, had my camera stuck in a wrong setting causing all video to be black and white and through this I solved it! thank you brother keep up the great work

[klonomi_shorts]

You explained very well, even though I didn't know much English, I understood and learned, thank you💚🤍

[dgerman]

Great tutorial, very clear and easy to follow. Bless!

[Static_Age]

this is very helpful, thank you for making the videol

[mohdodr]

thank you for the lesson dear, really help me a lot to finally understand the camera I bought years ago 😂 I always shoot auto

[willhaupt]

Really great video. I'm a day 1 user of the Sony A series and this was super helpful. I bought the camera to take action shots of my kiddos playing sports. Do you have a video on action photos or have a recommendation on where to start the triangle settings?

[SpeedYellow]

Good tutorial! Only point I’d disagree is about SCN… it’s not just “another type of auto mode that you probably won’t be using”, but instead an “advanced auto mode that is very useful in special situations”. I am an experience photographer, I use SCN mode in extreme situation. For example handheld twilight mode when even my f/1.2 lens cannot get me to the exposure/shutter speed that I needed.

[UDiAudio]

Great video. Do you have a video explaining the best settings to shot this type of video (talking head). I’m using a6400 and it keeps flicking the focus. On the ZV1 everything is perfect on the auto focus and I never need to do anything.

[petvesta]

Hi. With the SCN mode does that mean that in this setting I can go to, for example shoot a movie of say ants in macro, (provided I am able to keep the camera still with a tripod)?

[ReedCSings]

At ~minute 8 you can see lines in the display as you adjust the aperture, showing where your field of focus is (this is a guess lol) -- can you explain how to enable that display feature?

[itsmichellerobles]

Why when I take pictures on my sony a7ii on any mode besides auto it takes forever to take a picture & process?

[georger]

You've picked the right cameras, bud! Maybe you can explain to the folks why those 3 cameras are a full set for all different shooting requirements.