Sony A7s III Menu Walk Through

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by professional photographers of america join a community of over 30 000 photographers that includes equipment insurance education and business tools made specifically for photographers so one of the biggest new features on the sony a7s iii is the new menu system and this is a welcome edition it's been a long time coming the sony menu system has been very dated and a lot of people have griped about that for a long time but what's really cool here is we have an overhaul of the system so if you're used to the old one this will be pretty familiar they've changed the format and just moved a few items around but it's a huge difference so one thing you're going to notice is we have this three pane layout so we have a series of icons over on the left hand side we can scroll up and down and then if you drill into these you can see what's in each folder without having to go in and out with all the buttons and so it's a lot less messing around and it's very clear and makes a lot of sense and so it's a great layout but arguably one of the coolest new features is we now have touch sensitive menus so i can touch the screen now we've had touch compatibility before on sony cameras but it's been only for things like autofocus uh selecting a focus point selecting a tracking point so and so forth but we have that in the menu system right now so a couple cool things about this you can scroll uh if you're used to the way nikon does things you can now do that in your sony camera and it will just kind of scroll through each section uh the other cool thing is if you're not sure what sections are you can simply touch and press and you're going to get a little contextual menu see where it says shooting and if i drag that down exposure color focus so on and so forth and when i release for instance on focus i'm going to go into all my focus menus so this is really cool i'm not going to do a lot of touch in here because i don't want you to be distracted by seeing my hands on the screen the whole time so you can still navigate using the joystick or the control wheel whatever you want to do you're also going to notice that my menu has been moved up to the top it's no longer the last item so if you're not familiar with what this is my menu is where you can add a custom menu to items that you access regularly maybe you don't want to assign that necessarily to a function key but you want it in the menu that's no longer the last item it is now the first of course when you go into the menus the first time it's going to default into the shooting menu and i want to go through some of these and talk about the new layout because this is much improved some things have moved around and it's really pretty handy and very intuitive how to use it and it's also worth noting that touch also works in the function menu so if i hit the function button i can now touch to like for instance change my zebra level if i want to change that up to 75 or go back to 70 this is all touch interactive and it's pretty amazing as well another thing that's really cool about this is for the first time ever if you were using the hdmi out let's say to something like the atomos ninja 5 which is a monitor slash recorder once you're recording you typically you have a clean output but because of the new processor that's in this camera i can have a second monitor just using the flip screen and i can actually touch to change settings even while i'm recording of course you have a clean hdmi signal out so they're not going to show up on the video any changes you made will but the actual interface won't so this is kind of a cool two screen setup another thing to note is that the menus will slightly change depending on whether or not you're in stills mode or movie mode so for instance right now we're in stills mode i'm gonna go ahead and hit the menu button and you're gonna notice that the fifth option down is the drive mode and so this is where you can select high speed continuous shooting bracket settings so and so forth what is interesting about this is this is not something you would ever use in movie mode it's for stills only so if i go back out and let's go now into movie mode and you're going to see that if i press menu 5 is no longer a drive setting because we don't use it but we also have an audio recording menu which is something you don't use in stills mode so we have a couple differences between the two you don't need to memorize them or anything they're going to be pretty obvious something that you would do in movie but not stills or vice versa now one of the weaknesses on sony cameras up to this point has been switching back and forth between doing video and still so let's say that you're traveling you're shooting some video and then you whip over to stills mode well all of a sudden maybe you're shooting an s log three you have a picture profile set there's an auto focus set up a certain way and it all carries over to stills mode well you change those up and oh wait there's some video i want to shoot so you go back all those settings are still the same as they were in stills mode so what you really want is what other camera manufacturers have done which is to have two completely independent modes so whatever i had my stills mode set up in it will retain that after i go to video and move back so no matter what mode you're in just go to the menus and i'm going to go all the way down to setup and when you go to operations customize i'm going to scroll down to different set for stills slash movie and basically it's going to tell me in here that anything you put a check next to is going to be independent so you have a lot of options so you can actually customize this i have everything set up to basically be independent because i don't want basically if i go shoot stills i want to come back to movie mode and i want to have everything the way i left it when i left movie mode so i check everything but for instance if you want your aperture to stay the same you would deselect that and now everything will change but aperture when you switch between two modes but i want that on so i'm going to select it anyway this is really cool a lot of other cameras do this just fine sony for whatever reason have not and it's really nice to have this as addition now so i have two completely independent modes when i switch back and forth between stills mode and movie mode on the mode selection daw so i want to take a second and talk about professional photographers of america or ppa this is an organization i am a member i think of it as an awesome tool for sharpening my skills as a photographer it's also an extremely invaluable resource for growing your photography business so i'm a member and here's why you might want to join too so it's a low monthly price and you're going to receive fifteen thousand 000 worth of equipment insurance you get data loss recovery services which is absolutely essential if you shoot events or weddings they have an incredible library of educational videos as well as resources for photography businesses this includes things like contracts business planning you name it they have you covered so whether you're just starting out maybe you want to start a photography business or maybe you've been at this a while i think ppa is an awesome resource no matter what your skill level is so when you join you're also going to get free access to imaging usa for your first year of membership this is the world's largest photography convention which coincidentally next year in 2021 is going to be in dallas texas so use the link below this video for a special discount on your membership and i want to give a special shout out and thank you to the awesome folks at ppa for sponsoring this episode of the art of photography so i want to mention a few features that have changed on here in terms of where they're located and i promise everything makes so much more sense now so for instance if you want to format your cards when you put them back into the camera you used to have to scroll down and you'd go into the setup menu and it changed camera to cameras exactly what page they were on but that has changed now so now that has been bumped up if you go into the shooting menu right under image quality you're going to see a media tab if i go into media not only to put the format in there but they grouped everything together so you have record media settings you have recover image database or your display media info so that is a huge addition and it's all like i said like a lot of these things are really small changes but they're grouped correctly now and like i said this is a great overhaul to the system now a few new features that i want to point out and i'm going to go back out of the menus for a second we are in stills mode right now but i want to show you some formatting options that are new to this camera so right now if i go into image quality your first option is jpeg heif switch so what is this so in the past we've had the ability to shoot raw format and jpeg or both together and it will save both files onto the card well now we have a new file format and if i go in here we're going to see what that is so we have jpeg we have h e i f 4 2 0 and 4 2 two so heif is a file format that stands for high efficiency image format and so you will find variations of this on smartphones let's say it is something that will give you an image that is going to be smaller and more efficient than a jpeg but it has some other options to it too and you're gonna see four two zero and four two two these are clearly borrowed from the video world but basically four two two is going to give you a color sampling that is going to allow you to be able to rescue more shadow detail without shooting raw let's say and both of these also heifs work in a bt 2020 color space and so essentially what that means is these are hdr files and if i select either one of these it's going to warn me that you need a corresponding environment for playback on these and this is kind of a forward thinking move i think on sony's part it will give you a lot more flexibility the only problem with this is at the time i'm filming this is there's not a lot that supports these files i was able to open them up on the mac and ironically the finder would see them just fine and i could preview the files but if i tried to open them anything like photoshop would crash lightroom lightroom wouldn't even see them if i went into photos it just like completely crashed until i was able to delete them so you're going to see support coming for this file format soon but this is actually kind of a cool way to shoot and as it becomes more proliferated across editing software and devices i think it's going to be a real boon for what you're able to do with stills mode now the other mode i want to show you and this is different so i need to switch over to movie mode we're going to switch over to movie mode now and i'm going to go into the menus and i'm going to say file format it's going to give me all my movie file formats the first one you're going to see is this xavc well let's start here they're all xavcs variations but the first one you're going to see is an hs 4k that's where you're going to get your h.265 file these are the standard which is h.264 and then we have a slight difference here so this is hss and then we have this si format in both 4k and hd so what does that refer to one video concept that we need to understand is the difference between long gop and intra now long gop is an acronym gop stands for group of pictures and so it works like this when you're using long gop which is what most cameras probably by default are using it's a way of encoding the video where you have essentially intra frames or iframes every so often and then it fills in the blanks between the two and so what you're going to do is you're going to have a much smaller file probably in the end it's much more friendly on your computer it's really easy to work with but it's a way of actually getting that information into the file where we treat a group of pictures until something significant changes that's the way i and most people film probably 90 of the time the opposite of that is intra frame or what we call all intra now all intra is basically like when you look at a movie reel in the theater or something like that or when you shoot video in film and you have every frame rendered specifically the same that is all intra and so there's much more information that's there and it's really important to use this in a situation where you have a lot of motion a lot of detail something like water falling that's something where all answer will shine it is more taxing on your computer yes it does have a better quality it does look better but the sony a7 s3 does let you select between the two which is actually really cool to be able to do so the intro format is going to be different slightly than the long got the long gap is the default but the xavc-si is the intra-format so if you wanted to move into that for something that required more detail that is very possible to do you do that in the settings and of course if i go back out the next one down is movie settings and we're going to select that this is where i can select two things my frame rate which in 4k will go all the way up to 120p which is amazing and beautiful if you haven't seen my other video on this i will link it in the description below because the footage that i'm getting with this camera is truly beautiful and the 120 p is actually more useful than i thought it would be the 60p i've been living with for a while and uh well not on sony's but anyway the fact that they go up to 120 is just amazing now the other option you have in here is your record setting now here's why you would want to choose between the two so essentially you have 60 uh m4208 bit you have a hundred four two zero eight bit and then you have a hundred four two two ten bit for this particular codec that i'm in which is the xavcs 4k and 10 bit is what you want to shoot now 10 bit is going to be a bigger file and if you were short on card space that might be where you want to make an exception for one of the other two settings but in general you want to go to 10 bit now you're probably not visually just on the surface going to notice much difference between 10-bit and 8-bit but where it's going to come out is when you start editing if you need to rescue any shadow detail or if you have an under-exposed image that you need to bring up it's going to bring up a lot less noise in 10-bit and if you check out my other video i've got some examples of that and that's one of the things that usually noise hides in the shadows and when you have 10 bit it really opens it up to a lot more latitude so that is an amazing feature that we finally have on the a7 s3 now another amazing feature on this camera that is one of the calling cards is the electronic viewfinder this is the highest resolution viewfinder that you're going to find on any camera system at the time i'm recording this at least this is unique to the sony a7s iii now it offers a couple different options in terms of what you can run it at so for instance we have this beautiful huge display but if you wear glasses and you shoot sometimes your eye can't get as close as to when you're not wearing glasses and so you might want to have what we traditionally have called a high point viewfinder and you can also vary up the frame rate and it's pretty amazing so i'm going to show you how to get to those settings so let's go into the menu settings and what we're going to do is we're going to go down to setup and i'm going to go over and i'm going to scroll down to finder monitor and if we go in here you're going to see first of all viewfinder magnification right now this is set at standard which is going to occupy the entire view of the viewfinder as you look through it now if you wear glasses and you shoot you're not going to be able to see that because your eye can't get as close to the viewfinder so you might want to have that high point enabled so what we're going to do is select zoom out and what that will do is that will actually make the image smaller in the viewfinder it's still an incredible resolution but i love the fact that we have this option in fact you could even tie this to a custom function key now on the camera so if you go back and forth and you wear eyeglasses this could be something that's very useful another thing i want to show you if we go back out by default the camera is going to come we're going to go down to finder frame rate it's going to come set its standard now the obviously the more the higher the frame rate that you're using on here the more power it's going to use off the battery so if you use the viewfinder a lot this may be something you want to toggle between the two but i like it set to high because this thing is absolutely beautiful and i mean it's just like almost lifelike it's the closest thing to an optical viewfinder that i have used on any mirrorless camera today it really is pretty impressive now there are some other new features in here for instance the ability to output the entire sensor readout in raw format and so for instance if you're interested in doing that what we do is we're still in setup i'm going to scroll all the way down to external output and what you would do is go down to your hdmi output settings i'm going to go in here and you would say raw output i've have it turned on because i rehearsed this once let's go in let's turn it off and i'm going to turn it back on what it's going to do is prompt you with a thing that says connect the device that supports raw movie's output of this camera well the atomos ninja 5 which is a very commonly used device that will do external recording at the time i'm filming this unfortunately it does not support the raw format now another thing i want to show you is if we go back out we're in stills mode right now let's or sorry we're in movie mode and you're going to notice that we have a 16 by 9 frame here this is different than stills mode that's going to use up the whole viewfinder which is by three so if we go back into the 16 by nine format you're gonna notice there's black bars let me kill my display here for a second so you can see it there are black bars at the top and bottom of the frame so you won't have those in stills mode for instance and so when you do the raw output in video mode you're going to have a full output of the sensor so it's going to give you essentially what you're seeing is a stills it's not going to crop anything you're not going to go 16x9 it's giving you a full raw output if this is your thing this could be really handy it's very time consuming to use and unfortunately the support for it at the time i'm filming this i bet it's going to come soon it's going to be something that atomos has to do with their firmware to be able to read that file but this is going to give you a little bit of latitude in terms of cropping in terms of what you want to do especially if you're filming in 1080 you could zoom in on something this will be really handy to have for people who want to do that and there's some more options in the menu system as well for instance our networking options have expanded tremendously i did a video on the sony a9 and what you could do with networking and using an ethernet cable and an ftp server and being able to use it as a studio camera i'm not going to go into that here i'm going to do an entire separate video on both audio options as well as video options and networking options because this camera really has opened up a lot there's a lot of things on here we have never had before for instance the a9 had the ability to do stills as a transfer uh via a wired local area network but we couldn't do video we could only do stills well this one will do both so i will link up to all my other videos in the show description below so if you want to see one of these there are a ton of options in here in terms of what you want to do with usb connections in terms of what you want to do with bluetooth and this is a really powerful camera so i just wanted to tell you they're in the menus everything is organized but i'm going to do a completely separate video on how to set that up as well as 4-channel audio recording which is pretty cool this menu system is a gigantic leap forward for sony in many ways this is the camera that i wanted to see in 2016 and we finally have it and i can see why it took a number of years to produce and get right and i think they've really done it so i would love to know what you guys think i've kind of separated this out because it has so much new stuff in it that it really is complicated so i have an overview video i've got this video i've got some other breakout videos because this will do a lot that we've never seen on sony cameras before i would love to know what you guys think in the comments so drop me one below i will see you guys in the next video until then laterthis video is sponsored by professional photographers of america join a community of over 30 000 photographers that includes equipment insurance education and business tools made specifically for photographers so one of the biggest new features on the sony a7s iii is the new menu system and this is a welcome edition it's been a long time coming the sony menu system has been very dated and a lot of people have griped about that for a long time but what's really cool here is we have an overhaul of the system so if you're used to the old one this will be pretty familiar they've changed the format and just moved a few items around but it's a huge difference so one thing you're going to notice is we have this three pane layout so we have a series of icons over on the left hand side we can scroll up and down and then if you drill into these you can see what's in each folder without having to go in and out with all the buttons and so it's a lot less messing around and it's very clear and makes a lot of sense and so it's a great layout but arguably one of the coolest new features is we now have touch sensitive menus so i can touch the screen now we've had touch compatibility before on sony cameras but it's been only for things like autofocus uh selecting a focus point selecting a tracking point so and so forth but we have that in the menu system right now so a couple cool things about this you can scroll uh if you're used to the way nikon does things you can now do that in your sony camera and it will just kind of scroll through each section uh the other cool thing is if you're not sure what sections are you can simply touch and press and you're going to get a little contextual menu see where it says shooting and if i drag that down exposure color focus so on and so forth and when i release for instance on focus i'm going to go into all my focus menus so this is really cool i'm not going to do a lot of touch in here because i don't want you to be distracted by seeing my hands on the screen the whole time so you can still navigate using the joystick or the control wheel whatever you want to do you're also going to notice that my menu has been moved up to the top it's no longer the last item so if you're not familiar with what this is my menu is where you can add a custom menu to items that you access regularly maybe you don't want to assign that necessarily to a function key but you want it in the menu that's no longer the last item it is now the first of course when you go into the menus the first time it's going to default into the shooting menu and i want to go through some of these and talk about the new layout because this is much improved some things have moved around and it's really pretty handy and very intuitive how to use it and it's also worth noting that touch also works in the function menu so if i hit the function button i can now touch to like for instance change my zebra level if i want to change that up to 75 or go back to 70 this is all touch interactive and it's pretty amazing as well another thing that's really cool about this is for the first time ever if you were using the hdmi out let's say to something like the atomos ninja 5 which is a monitor slash recorder once you're recording you typically you have a clean output but because of the new processor that's in this camera i can have a second monitor just using the flip screen and i can actually touch to change settings even while i'm recording of course you have a clean hdmi signal out so they're not going to show up on the video any changes you made will but the actual interface won't so this is kind of a cool two screen setup another thing to note is that the menus will slightly change depending on whether or not you're in stills mode or movie mode so for instance right now we're in stills mode i'm gonna go ahead and hit the menu button and you're gonna notice that the fifth option down is the drive mode and so this is where you can select high speed continuous shooting bracket settings so and so forth what is interesting about this is this is not something you would ever use in movie mode it's for stills only so if i go back out and let's go now into movie mode and you're going to see that if i press menu 5 is no longer a drive setting because we don't use it but we also have an audio recording menu which is something you don't use in stills mode so we have a couple differences between the two you don't need to memorize them or anything they're going to be pretty obvious something that you would do in movie but not stills or vice versa now one of the weaknesses on sony cameras up to this point has been switching back and forth between doing video and still so let's say that you're traveling you're shooting some video and then you whip over to stills mode well all of a sudden maybe you're shooting an s log three you have a picture profile set there's an auto focus set up a certain way and it all carries over to stills mode well you change those up and oh wait there's some video i want to shoot so you go back all those settings are still the same as they were in stills mode so what you really want is what other camera manufacturers have done which is to have two completely independent modes so whatever i had my stills mode set up in it will retain that after i go to video and move back so no matter what mode you're in just go to the menus and i'm going to go all the way down to setup and when you go to operations customize i'm going to scroll down to different set for stills slash movie and basically it's going to tell me in here that anything you put a check next to is going to be independent so you have a lot of options so you can actually customize this i have everything set up to basically be independent because i don't want basically if i go shoot stills i want to come back to movie mode and i want to have everything the way i left it when i left movie mode so i check everything but for instance if you want your aperture to stay the same you would deselect that and now everything will change but aperture when you switch between two modes but i want that on so i'm going to select it anyway this is really cool a lot of other cameras do this just fine sony for whatever reason have not and it's really nice to have this as addition now so i have two completely independent modes when i switch back and forth between stills mode and movie mode on the mode selection daw so i want to take a second and talk about professional photographers of america or ppa this is an organization i am a member i think of it as an awesome tool for sharpening my skills as a photographer it's also an extremely invaluable resource for growing your photography business so i'm a member and here's why you might want to join too so it's a low monthly price and you're going to receive fifteen thousand 000 worth of equipment insurance you get data loss recovery services which is absolutely essential if you shoot events or weddings they have an incredible library of educational videos as well as resources for photography businesses this includes things like contracts business planning you name it they have you covered so whether you're just starting out maybe you want to start a photography business or maybe you've been at this a while i think ppa is an awesome resource no matter what your skill level is so when you join you're also going to get free access to imaging usa for your first year of membership this is the world's largest photography convention which coincidentally next year in 2021 is going to be in dallas texas so use the link below this video for a special discount on your membership and i want to give a special shout out and thank you to the awesome folks at ppa for sponsoring this episode of the art of photography so i want to mention a few features that have changed on here in terms of where they're located and i promise everything makes so much more sense now so for instance if you want to format your cards when you put them back into the camera you used to have to scroll down and you'd go into the setup menu and it changed camera to cameras exactly what page they were on but that has changed now so now that has been bumped up if you go into the shooting menu right under image quality you're going to see a media tab if i go into media not only to put the format in there but they grouped everything together so you have record media settings you have recover image database or your display media info so that is a huge addition and it's all like i said like a lot of these things are really small changes but they're grouped correctly now and like i said this is a great overhaul to the system now a few new features that i want to point out and i'm going to go back out of the menus for a second we are in stills mode right now but i want to show you some formatting options that are new to this camera so right now if i go into image quality your first option is jpeg heif switch so what is this so in the past we've had the ability to shoot raw format and jpeg or both together and it will save both files onto the card well now we have a new file format and if i go in here we're going to see what that is so we have jpeg we have h e i f 4 2 0 and 4 2 two so heif is a file format that stands for high efficiency image format and so you will find variations of this on smartphones let's say it is something that will give you an image that is going to be smaller and more efficient than a jpeg but it has some other options to it too and you're gonna see four two zero and four two two these are clearly borrowed from the video world but basically four two two is going to give you a color sampling that is going to allow you to be able to rescue more shadow detail without shooting raw let's say and both of these also heifs work in a bt 2020 color space and so essentially what that means is these are hdr files and if i select either one of these it's going to warn me that you need a corresponding environment for playback on these and this is kind of a forward thinking move i think on sony's part it will give you a lot more flexibility the only problem with this is at the time i'm filming this is there's not a lot that supports these files i was able to open them up on the mac and ironically the finder would see them just fine and i could preview the files but if i tried to open them anything like photoshop would crash lightroom lightroom wouldn't even see them if i went into photos it just like completely crashed until i was able to delete them so you're going to see support coming for this file format soon but this is actually kind of a cool way to shoot and as it becomes more proliferated across editing software and devices i think it's going to be a real boon for what you're able to do with stills mode now the other mode i want to show you and this is different so i need to switch over to movie mode we're going to switch over to movie mode now and i'm going to go into the menus and i'm going to say file format it's going to give me all my movie file formats the first one you're going to see is this xavc well let's start here they're all xavcs variations but the first one you're going to see is an hs 4k that's where you're going to get your h.265 file these are the standard which is h.264 and then we have a slight difference here so this is hss and then we have this si format in both 4k and hd so what does that refer to one video concept that we need to understand is the difference between long gop and intra now long gop is an acronym gop stands for group of pictures and so it works like this when you're using long gop which is what most cameras probably by default are using it's a way of encoding the video where you have essentially intra frames or iframes every so often and then it fills in the blanks between the two and so what you're going to do is you're going to have a much smaller file probably in the end it's much more friendly on your computer it's really easy to work with but it's a way of actually getting that information into the file where we treat a group of pictures until something significant changes that's the way i and most people film probably 90 of the time the opposite of that is intra frame or what we call all intra now all intra is basically like when you look at a movie reel in the theater or something like that or when you shoot video in film and you have every frame rendered specifically the same that is all intra and so there's much more information that's there and it's really important to use this in a situation where you have a lot of motion a lot of detail something like water falling that's something where all answer will shine it is more taxing on your computer yes it does have a better quality it does look better but the sony a7 s3 does let you select between the two which is actually really cool to be able to do so the intro format is going to be different slightly than the long got the long gap is the default but the xavc-si is the intra-format so if you wanted to move into that for something that required more detail that is very possible to do you do that in the settings and of course if i go back out the next one down is movie settings and we're going to select that this is where i can select two things my frame rate which in 4k will go all the way up to 120p which is amazing and beautiful if you haven't seen my other video on this i will link it in the description below because the footage that i'm getting with this camera is truly beautiful and the 120 p is actually more useful than i thought it would be the 60p i've been living with for a while and uh well not on sony's but anyway the fact that they go up to 120 is just amazing now the other option you have in here is your record setting now here's why you would want to choose between the two so essentially you have 60 uh m4208 bit you have a hundred four two zero eight bit and then you have a hundred four two two ten bit for this particular codec that i'm in which is the xavcs 4k and 10 bit is what you want to shoot now 10 bit is going to be a bigger file and if you were short on card space that might be where you want to make an exception for one of the other two settings but in general you want to go to 10 bit now you're probably not visually just on the surface going to notice much difference between 10-bit and 8-bit but where it's going to come out is when you start editing if you need to rescue any shadow detail or if you have an under-exposed image that you need to bring up it's going to bring up a lot less noise in 10-bit and if you check out my other video i've got some examples of that and that's one of the things that usually noise hides in the shadows and when you have 10 bit it really opens it up to a lot more latitude so that is an amazing feature that we finally have on the a7 s3 now another amazing feature on this camera that is one of the calling cards is the electronic viewfinder this is the highest resolution viewfinder that you're going to find on any camera system at the time i'm recording this at least this is unique to the sony a7s iii now it offers a couple different options in terms of what you can run it at so for instance we have this beautiful huge display but if you wear glasses and you shoot sometimes your eye can't get as close as to when you're not wearing glasses and so you might want to have what we traditionally have called a high point viewfinder and you can also vary up the frame rate and it's pretty amazing so i'm going to show you how to get to those settings so let's go into the menu settings and what we're going to do is we're going to go down to setup and i'm going to go over and i'm going to scroll down to finder monitor and if we go in here you're going to see first of all viewfinder magnification right now this is set at standard which is going to occupy the entire view of the viewfinder as you look through it now if you wear glasses and you shoot you're not going to be able to see that because your eye can't get as close to the viewfinder so you might want to have that high point enabled so what we're going to do is select zoom out and what that will do is that will actually make the image smaller in the viewfinder it's still an incredible resolution but i love the fact that we have this option in fact you could even tie this to a custom function key now on the camera so if you go back and forth and you wear eyeglasses this could be something that's very useful another thing i want to show you if we go back out by default the camera is going to come we're going to go down to finder frame rate it's going to come set its standard now the obviously the more the higher the frame rate that you're using on here the more power it's going to use off the battery so if you use the viewfinder a lot this may be something you want to toggle between the two but i like it set to high because this thing is absolutely beautiful and i mean it's just like almost lifelike it's the closest thing to an optical viewfinder that i have used on any mirrorless camera today it really is pretty impressive now there are some other new features in here for instance the ability to output the entire sensor readout in raw format and so for instance if you're interested in doing that what we do is we're still in setup i'm going to scroll all the way down to external output and what you would do is go down to your hdmi output settings i'm going to go in here and you would say raw output i've have it turned on because i rehearsed this once let's go in let's turn it off and i'm going to turn it back on what it's going to do is prompt you with a thing that says connect the device that supports raw movie's output of this camera well the atomos ninja 5 which is a very commonly used device that will do external recording at the time i'm filming this unfortunately it does not support the raw format now another thing i want to show you is if we go back out we're in stills mode right now let's or sorry we're in movie mode and you're going to notice that we have a 16 by 9 frame here this is different than stills mode that's going to use up the whole viewfinder which is by three so if we go back into the 16 by nine format you're gonna notice there's black bars let me kill my display here for a second so you can see it there are black bars at the top and bottom of the frame so you won't have those in stills mode for instance and so when you do the raw output in video mode you're going to have a full output of the sensor so it's going to give you essentially what you're seeing is a stills it's not going to crop anything you're not going to go 16x9 it's giving you a full raw output if this is your thing this could be really handy it's very time consuming to use and unfortunately the support for it at the time i'm filming this i bet it's going to come soon it's going to be something that atomos has to do with their firmware to be able to read that file but this is going to give you a little bit of latitude in terms of cropping in terms of what you want to do especially if you're filming in 1080 you could zoom in on something this will be really handy to have for people who want to do that and there's some more options in the menu system as well for instance our networking options have expanded tremendously i did a video on the sony a9 and what you could do with networking and using an ethernet cable and an ftp server and being able to use it as a studio camera i'm not going to go into that here i'm going to do an entire separate video on both audio options as well as video options and networking options because this camera really has opened up a lot there's a lot of things on here we have never had before for instance the a9 had the ability to do stills as a transfer uh via a wired local area network but we couldn't do video we could only do stills well this one will do both so i will link up to all my other videos in the show description below so if you want to see one of these there are a ton of options in here in terms of what you want to do with usb connections in terms of what you want to do with bluetooth and this is a really powerful camera so i just wanted to tell you they're in the menus everything is organized but i'm going to do a completely separate video on how to set that up as well as 4-channel audio recording which is pretty cool this menu system is a gigantic leap forward for sony in many ways this is the camera that i wanted to see in 2016 and we finally have it and i can see why it took a number of years to produce and get right and i think they've really done it so i would love to know what you guys think i've kind of separated this out because it has so much new stuff in it that it really is complicated so i have an overview video i've got this video i've got some other breakout videos because this will do a lot that we've never seen on sony cameras before i would love to know what you guys think in the comments so drop me one below i will see you guys in the next video until then later\n"