Sony A7IV After 1 Year: Wedding Photographer Review
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2022
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It's been exactly 1 year since I got Sony A7IV in my hands, and oh boy what a ride it was. I've shot all of my weddings this year with it and in this video I'm gonna show you the photos and will comment on them, giving you my thoughts on performance of this camera after shooting tens of thousands photos. Buckle up!
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Invaluable info thank you. I traded my 5 year old a9 for a7iv and don’t regret it at all. Just an enthusiast, nobody ever sees my pics but I don’t care - it’s my hobby and it’s what I like to do. Thanks SO much for your videos 👍🇬🇧
You are too humble...I wager you are very good. Photography is my (expensive) hobby as well. As a complete newbie chose the Sony A7S III.....didn’t even know what a mega pixel was...thought it would be cool to shoot kids sporting events. Its been one hell of a learning curve but so much fun. Now I want a better stills Camera....I would have to sell a kidney to get the Sony A7R V so I think I will get the A7IV as well. Good Idea? What lenses do you like? Cheers from Canada.
You convinced me that the A7iv had the refinements I wanted from a Sony body. I've shot like 16 weddings with them and I love them. A huge step up from the trusty D750. And I looooove the lenses. From the perfection of the GM lenses, to the versatility of third party options.
When the couple walks down the aisle towards me, another good tip is to use a 35mm when shooting horizontally, then switch it to crop mode (~1.5x) which will give you a field of view closer to 50mm to shoot vertically. That way you have one camera, one lens, multiple possibilities.
Great tip!
Great video. Recently purchased the A7iv and loving it so far. You're videos have been an amazing source of info, thank you so much!
Thanks so much! Glad you like them! Have fun with you A7IV!
thanks your feedback, it's confort my feelings about my first summer of weddings!! it's an amazing camera for that ! And your shoot at 2:20, are you serious ? it's an unbelievable powerful picture!! Your are really a magic photographer!!
I have the A7 iv and A73 using them for concert photography. The A73 has a slide advance in editing the low light photos and in the ISO performance.
Wonderful content. thank you for sharing. have a good day!❤👍
Very informative i want to start with this camera, and found this channel, thank you..
Great vid!
*A7IV, probably my next camera for photography!*
Great video, as usual! I also like your accent. When you say “auto focus” I hear “out of focus”. So I hear “the a7iv out-of-focus system”. Made me smile. I will look at purchasing your Lightroom presets. Thanks for your videos. I have an A1 and an A7iv. Also the RX100iv, which works better for me than my iphone.
a7iv is the boss. I am really impressed with this sony body.
I’ve got 3 weddings left this year-took November/December off, and this is the first season with Sony, and the A7iv x 2. I decided after watching your videos, to sell all,my Fujifilm gear and go Sony. Zero regrets.
Gutted I missed you at thrive in Glasgow-maybe buy you a beer some day to say thanks for all the help with these videos. Top man
Do you miss anything about fuji, because I am planning to switch to sony too :3
@@nikolaramcevicsame here, the fuji autofocus keeps letting me down 🥲
Great video! I'm planning to upgrade to A7iv soon... i started with A7, to A7ii, now 2x A7iii... best system for creative photography. Especially focus system i can rely on and i can work on composition and posing...
You’re gonna love A7IV then!!
This year's wedding season I worked on A7mkIV and A7mk III. It's amazing how big the difference is! Huuuuuuuuuuuge!
finally somebody who knows what he is doing! Did you ever work with Canon R5 raws? Could you tell a difference? Is the sony raw 16 bit color depth? Thanks a lot and what beautiful photos! My full respect 🙂
I'm very excited to be buying this camera. It ticks all the boxes for me in photo and video. I've shot Nikon since 2002 but never been convinced about buying a Z camera. The new Tamron 20 - 40mm tipped me into making the decision to move systems. I'm sure Nikon will bring out a mid market Z with the Z9 AF, and it'll be a great camera all the tech is there in the Z9, its just I can't wait for all the lenses to catch up.
Id say the only disappointing thing is the mixed media and A card that I hear is more expensive than B cards.
nice tuto. can you share your experience, settings and tricks for making video with a7IV ?
i like how you caress the camera when u say its name
Great video Magic, nice to know from your experience. I have some question about your combination 35 gm and 50 gm, now I have 35gm and want to buy next gm prime lense, I think I will go 50gm but I still worry the difference of 35&50 (I know you will get what I try to ask lol), I use A7c body and portrait photography for my hobby.
I’ve always been afraid to under expose anything less than -.3 but since I switched to the A7IV recently, I’m gonna trust the camera a bit more. Thanks!
Oh go for it! You can easily underexpose full stop+!
Hey man, do you always use tracking sensitivity set to number 1 for wedding photography? Love your content mate :)
Just Picked up the Sony A7IV for Weddings!
Oh and Your Preset is amazing! Thank You.
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Thank you!
Thanks for this amazing insight video! I am in the kindergarten photography business. Until now I am using a 7iii but with some fast autofocus problem when letting the small ones run (real fast), jump (sometime not looking into the camera) and just go Nuggets… all the great stuff I want to photograph 🤩🥳 this year I went home with nearly 80.000 images in 3-4 months… many of them missing focus because if the nature (children) of what I am photographing. I am thinking in upgrading to 7iv or A1. For better autofocus and being faster when doing my job, since I want less images that are out of focus. Since you also have family shootings, what is your suggestion in this matter? Thanks for feedback 🧡
I love the silent shutter on my A9 at weddings. It allows me to get more natural photos without people noticing. My second body is the A7iv, the controls are so similar switching between them is not a problem. It's a great camera, the body feels better than my A9 apart from the flip out screen, which I still hate. Im hoping for a A9iii with 33mp, flash in silent so I don't have to switch and a screen like the A9 or the Nikon Z9 .
Yes the Z9 screen is perfect for me, Im not a big fan of the flip screen. Im moving from Nikon to a Sony A74 soon, I'll kick myself if Nikon bring out a Z8 or Z6III with the Z9 screen 😕
Thank you for the feedback on your use of the Sony Alpha 7IV. Out of curiosity, when you are in "wedding" conditions, do you generally favour aperture or speed? Or are you in manual ? With ISO in auto? :)
I got into this hobby to shoot pictures of my kids. Gald to know an a1 is needed and it's not my sucky technique, LOL.
Horizontal vertical tip is good! try with a battery grip and it may be easier. Well I found it a little easier
Or harder, since the body will be larger and heavier… 😂
@@MagicWeddingPhotographer true, just having it so square on, I guess is why it was okay for me
I own the a7iv I think at the very least they could reduce the 4K 60 crop to like 1.2x 1.3x or 1.4x instead of 1.5x they did a smaller crop for the a7rv so I don’t see why they couldn’t reduce on the a7iv it’s the very least they could do to help them and there customers or maybe remove or make a mark 2 I reckon if we work together they will have to listen and make a change and with your large platform and influence would really help if you could spread the idea around thx
I have a problem. When I am trying to upload a video file into Premiere Pro via card adapter it's says that the card is empty. When I connect the camera it's self to my PC it's fine . I don't have the same issues with the photo files. They get uploaded in Lightroom directly from the card without problem. How can I fix that? Thank you.
I have two A7R3 cameras for my work and for leasure I bought A7C. A7C has the real time tracking. It is ridiculous how good the autofocus is. Makes everything feel so easy. 😂
Haha I feel you! I remember myself shooting my good ol A7R3 and then testing A7C with Real Time Tracking - it was brutal 😂
It definitely is. I am still sticking with the A7R3s though. They are amazing cameras!
@@napparitm I love the sensor on the Riii I wish they would put it in a newer body.
Hey Magic do you use flash during the first dance? I was wondering because I use on camera flash in ttl alot during dancing on weddings with my sony A7riii and it is laging in evf quite bad, does the a7iv evf stays smooth during this kind of situations?
I am writing this comment now and I see you have 16.4K subscribers. I am sure that this comment will seem strange in a few years when you will have more than 500K. That's my prediction and it's based on how amazing your videos are. Keep up the good work Magic!
9:00 I have a question: If the groom is not at the exact focal plane as the bride, the groom's face will be slightly out of focus or at least not as sharp. In this case, should I prioritize subject separation using F1.4 or 1.2 or prioritize the sharpness for the couple using F2.8-ish. If the couple see the photo that he is slightly out of focus, will they dislike the photo or think it is a failed shot?
¿Podría encontrar vídeo suyos con subtítulos en español? 🙏🏻
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You’re fast!
@@MagicWeddingPhotographer haha :D
You should try Capture One and take those edits to another level.
oh believe me, I tried so many times! The workflow just doesn't work for me :/
Reviews4fun: Any good capture one tutorial to recommend?
I bought it last year , got the a7iv a few months later, wasn't compatible... It asked me to get an update for almost the same price as I bought the previous version ... Didn't knew it before purchase that Capture one has no free ipdates, such a robbery = it went straigth to trash. Back to Ligthroom, truly easyer workflow !
@@afrank3029 Thanks for the feedback! Those have to pay for updates are really super annoying and I agree that from my tinkering with capture one, I got the impression it's much harder to get a consistent workflow out of the box
Do you not use Back Button Focus? I'm curious on how you are able to do the two cameras at once during the wedding recessional and not worry about where its focusing.
Hey, I don’t use back button, so to focus I only need to half press shutter. I used tracking so as soon as I locked on person I knew it’s not gonna loose focus
@@MagicWeddingPhotographer Thank you for your reply! So maybe I need to try out shutter focus again! I am still having a hard time grasping how you do two at once haha! Do you find the focus on the couple on the first one and then move it into position and get the second one ready for horizontal? Am I thinking about this too hard? LOL I shoot with 2 a9ii cameras, but just ordered an a7iv.
want to get an a7iv + 50 gm to start shooting weddings and portraits, is it good set up for start shooting? or it will be better take an a7iv + 24-70 gm ii ?? can't decide , help pls)
The 24-70 will be way more versatile. Specially if you do weddings. And after shooting for a while, you can check your lightroom metadata to see if you gravitate to certain focal lengths. Maybe you tend to shoot at 50mm, so then that could be your next investment. Also, if you don't have other equipment and plan to do weddings, please please please invest in a second body and a cheap prime like the 35mm 1.8 for safety. If anything goes wrong, you will be able to keep shooting.
Event lens
24-70 for versitily
85mm 1.8 or 1.4 for portrait
35-150 SUPER VESITILY 😂 (one lens for full event) combo with 24mm 1.4 for wide
@@aggiepiniones5571I bought a 24-105 for versatility but still need to’ use me cheap 50mm for dark church. I think like you that something like a 35mm is more versatile then a 50.
OMG, that canon 85 1.2EF at 8:12 is horrible even when stopped down, lots of CA everywhere, probably from around 2.8 it’s okay but why buying an 1.2 when you can’t even shoot it at 1.2 because of all the flaws…regarding the a7iv, I think I’ve watched all the videos on UA-cam, I’m currently still on a7iii and kinda thinking of upgrading 😊
Can't the A7IV shoot silent shutter? I'm rarely if ever panning, so why can't I use silent shutter for a Wedding?
You can use silent shutter on A7IV. You just need to be careful but not about the rolling shutter, but banding under artificial light
When you taking photos for wedding do Over heating problems
Never happened when taking photos. Not a chance. Only if you over 30min of video on a hot day
whats that white pixel on his shoulder from? LR related ? ua-cam.com/video/a_QEuBAfdHQ/v-deo.html
oh wow - great eye! I needed to back to the LR to check - but it was something on his fabric, because it's in the same spot in other photos (even different frames) :)
yes, you do have a "big brain".
Does it make Sense, to buy the A7IV as an A73 owner? Is it not a big risk to shoot a Couple with the aperture wide open like 1.4 or even 1.2?!?! I dont like it when they have a walk and the other one isnt sharp, you know? Thanx for the Video, Greetz from Germany 👏
lols hundreds and thousands of weddings in the last 12 months ?? lols there is only 365 days in a year so how exactly do YOU shoot thousands of weddings in 12 months