SONY A7IV - 5 Problems / Quirks after 6 months...

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - A hot camera
1:57 - Hodor
2:59 - Random Freezing Issues
4:30 - Battery Life
5:32 - Cheap EVF
7:23 - Free Cinnamon Buns

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[VictorLaforteza]

Have you encountered these with your A7IV?! 🤡

[diptadee]

i'm broke. idk why am i watching these videos. maybe i should go to sleep

[DocBoA]

At least the freezing and heating issues make it well-rounded. Great content upload

[aaronmheta]

Great review, I like this cause you are not only talking about the positives in your reviews like other YouTubers. I use my friend’s Sony A7iv but I have came across overheating yet.

[ruffdraft]

Victor to be honest with you when it comes to the Sony A74 I see it as a Super 35mm camera meets full frame camera with 10 bit and excellent autofocus. That's is how I would use it

[filipmokrogulski]

Thank you for your video Victor! Didn't get a A7IV yet because I'm using fully equipped BMPCC4k and I'm waiting for a good time to switch to Sony, but these bottlenecks that you mention could really annoy me. On a professional set you have no time for problems like these you mentioned. Love your content man, keep it up

[MedInTaiwan]

Hey there! I've been drooling on this camera for some time and thought I watched about every possible content about it, really appreciate the uniqueness of your points :D

[HasAfzal]

Thanks for this!
A few of these issues I’ve not encountered with my A7IV
I shot a full wedding day yesterday (12 hours) and I only used 1 and a half batteries and I was shooting 4K 10 bit all day and I recorded 400 clips

The overheating issue/camera freezing
Have you tried updating your firmware to the latest version?

[Taylor-qbvk]

I just got this camera and seeing videos like this make me go dang!" lol. Solid content as always !

[smalltalk.productions]

thanks for the effort and sharing. helpful. i am not a hybrid photographer. i only do stills. have you had heating/freezing issues in stills mode? thumbs up.

[TheMrHolmes]

I came from a A6500 so even with these issues it’s a major upgrade for me, even the Battery life is a huge improvement

[ChallengerWD]

Thanks for the video Victor, very interesting. Is the A7IV stabilisation good? Could you shoot outdoor video with just a shooting grip? I’ve got a gimbal but I want a minimal video set up. Just grip and A7IV, will it work? 👍🏻

[bignormeister]

Thanks for a great, unbiased insight into life with the A7IV. Personally I don't think it's as a well built as the A7III. I have experienced the overheating issue and had to change to the A7III but not experienced any glitches or slow EVF. However being a photographer first and videographer second, I would lose doors for the ports and the articulating screen. Those two things make it impossible to add a decent L-Bracket.

[chowacow]

Jumping ship to Sony next year. I wanted to try the A7RV before I settle in but my question is on the EVF/LCD. I'm coming from an X-T3 which has around the same dots as the A7IV. Would I be missing out a lot if I don't get the A7RV? Or is it not that big of a difference until you try it out and then you can't go back. $1400 is a lot and I could be getting another lens with that but I can always save up another $1400 I'm not sure I'll buy another body anytime soon. Thanks!

[pikix]

Im in love with my a7iv! The freezing issue for me was only my camera, so thats fine now Lol

[jezreelfilms]

Hey Vic where can we find the film burn transition you've used? Thanks in advance

[mrwashur]

I used mine to film a wedding and was worried about overheating. It was over 80° f with a ton of humidity. I didn’t get any overheating. I used the Mieke battery grip though so that may have helped a little. I shot for probably 3 hours with off and on recording and about 20 minutes for the ceremony. Not even a heat symbol.

[jackbozi]

Good stuff. Could you suggest a better camera for video within the same price range with the exception of Canon R6 and all types of blackmagic bodies. Thanks

[mtbboy]

a thing I noticed first when I set it to 60P the camera booted slow, but after charming more settings, finishing setup, many reboots, now it does boot slowly with ''running mode'' screen I forgot what it's called. But I don't get that screen anymore. Maybe I fixed it by enabling the display information. I don't know. I don't know which combo of settings or actions made it go away. Maybe it's something to do with battery charge. Seems like I got around the sRGB/RGB bug too, not sure why it works now. But seems to be working.

[GyratingPandas]

0 dislikes! Another banger yet again Victor, keep it up :)