what's up everybody welcome back to another Sony camera app tutorial so the
main problem that vloggers and youtubers have with a lot of Sony cameras is the
lack of a fully articulating screen cameras like the Canon 80D and
Panasonic GH4 are great for allowing you to flip the screen up and to the side so
that you can easily see yourself while recording. Some Sony cameras like the
newer RX100 cameras can flip the screen all the way around but the majority of
their alpha cameras do not. Enter the smart remote control app, a free way for
you to turn your cell phone into both a monitor and a controller for your Sony
camera. Now just an aside I'm using my A6300 with firmware version 2.0 and my
samsung galaxy S8 I have no idea how well this operates on an iPhone I would
guess it's very similar? This app is free and although its features are limited I
think it's one of the more useful ones that Sony has put out. Some of the
captured phone footage is in a horizontal or landscape orientation but
the app and all menus also function vertically. To connect your phone to your
camera you must first download the smart remote control app and if you need help
installing the app on your camera I have a bunch of videos explaining how to do
this so check the annotation. Now download remote app PlayMemories Mobile
on your Android or iOS device. It was the first result when I searched the word
Sony make sure your Wi-Fi on your phone is on and confirmed that neither device is
in airplane mode. You should only need to set up a connection once as long as your
phone remembers Wi-Fi spots it should automatically connect once your Wi-Fi is
on and the app on your camera is open. Now keep in mind that you do not need an
internet connection when pairing devices the Wi-Fi is just the camera acting as a
sort of hotspot for your phone. Use your phone's camera to scan the cameras QR
code displayed on the monitor. Your list of paired cameras will appear here in
the future. Okay let's move on to operation! First set the shooting mode on your
camera's mode wheel because you can't change that through the app. You also
can't set the frame rate or resolution and app so do that before you start it
up. Go ahead and connect to your camera. In a
manual shooting mode you can control the shutter speed, aperture and ISO from the
live view section of the app. Alright let's dive into the menu. The menu on
your phone will include camera information. Next you can see in-camera
images and videos.
So you have to use the menu to set your white balance if you aren't controlling
with your phone vertically. You can set a self timer
You can set continuous or single shooting. You can setup your focus mode
and then you can turn on touch shutter. With touch shutter off you would tap the
area you want to focus on and then press the circle button to the side to take
the picture or if you're in video mode to start recording. If you want to turn
touch shutter on your camera we'll take a picture immediately after you touch
the area that you want to focus on then it locks on to this area so that each
photo after is locked to this point until you press the green flashing
cancel lock. The next part of your menu is the zoom setting. Here you can select
optical zoom which is just your power zoom if your camera supports it like
these 16 to 50 kit lens or the 18 to 105 F4 lens. Optical means the picture is
only zooming in with the use of optics unlike the next two options: Clear Image
Zoom and digital zoom. Clear image does a pretty good job doubling focal length as
long as you aren't at a super high ISO
and the digital zoom option gives you four times the focal length which is
cropping so again keep that ISO low.
silent shooting is also an option for any camera that supports it. Next you can
change the file size of the reviewed image the 2M (megabyte) option allows for
faster review than viewing it at the original resolution. Then you can check
your cameras model and firmware version. You can turn image review on or off as
well as set its length.
You can choose to save the photos you take to your smartphone device, you can
even turn on location information but I don't really want to get into this
because I've never seen a point in geo-tagging photos. Next you can turn on
a few different kinds of grids, then you can turn on mirror mode. If you have your
phone on top of your camera pointed at you, turning on mirror mode allows you to
view a reflection of yourself - perfect for any vloggers out there. One last cool
feature is the little icon you might have noticed in the top right corner of
the live monitor on your phone this allows you to rotate the camera
orientation this is useful if your camera was recording upside down so that
you can still view it properly without having to turn your entire phone.
So that's gonna wrap up this tutorial thank you so much for all your patience
and support I have more videos on the way,
but I'm always open to suggestions and as always if you like this video you
know what to do.