Hey everyone! I'm John Sison and today we are taking a look
how to tether your Sony camera to your computer.
Okay, so I thought this video badly needed an update because the
last tethering tutorial that I did
was way back in 2013.
And clearly, things have changed since then
Sony are using a newer program with a different interface
and you do have live view tethering
which the older program didn't have so this is
definitely a good upgrade or a good alternative to
Sony's older outdated program.
In terms of what is supported with cameras,
I will a link in the description below
so you can take a look at what is supported,
what camera is capable of doing with the program.
I'll leave that link in the description. I am using it with a
MAC at the moment so keep that in mind.
It may be slightly different if you're using a PC
but if you're a MAC user, this should be a fairly simple process.
So the first thing you need to do is go into your web browser.
Google Sony Imaging Edge. It should be
the first option that pops up in the search.
Once you're on the website, go into
download Imaging Edge.
And download it for your operating system. Whether
that be Windows or MAC. Seeing as how I am using
a MacBook, I wil get the MacBook one.
And then all you need to do is install it from here.
Now what you need to do is setup your camera.
You need to switch on your camera and navigate to the network tab.
You have to turn off the control with smartphone option.
After you've done that, navigate to the setup tab and select USB connection.
You then have to select PC Remote.
Once you've done that, you can now connect the camera to your computer.
You use the USB cable whether that be a micro
USB or USB-C that was supplied when you purchased the camera.
But if you want to more freely,
I would probably get a longer cable.
I am actually using the cable that was supplied with my MacBook
that can also be used with my camera.
If you're using a MAC computer, the folder would be
in Imaging Edge. You'll see that there is Edit,
Remote and Viewer. For the purposes of this video,
we're going to focus mainly on the remote.
So if we double click that,
the camera is connected. This is your main
interface for the software.
So we're going to start at the top here.
Actually I'm going to focus on
the camera cause I don't want my kitchen to be in the background.
These two arrows are just
changing the orientation, so you can have it
vertical, upside down, whichever way you like.
The other arrow is just going the other way around.
The display overlay is going to be
actually really useful
for stop motion photography. So for example
if I take a photo now.
Its actually going to go straight to viewer. You can turn this option off.
But I will go back to
the remote.
So if I tap that
I'll put that as the starting image. You can actually overlay
the previous photo taken and
move it just slightly and then take another photo.
As you take more photos it will automatically update
to the photo that you have just taken. So if I do it again,
and move it again
you can see that you've got a transparent overlay.
You can adjust the intensity of it, so you can have it
at 100% which would be a bit pointless but
then you can also have it
from the previous image. So that can come in really handy
for stop motion.
Just also to let you know
if you tap it again, it will actually show a different overlay,
to have it off the actual icon needs to be greyed out, not have
an orange part to it.
Okay, moving onto the display guide,
this is basically just two lines so
you can have it set to vertical, to horizontal,
you can also change the
colour of it. So this is great for just
depending on the type of shot that you want, its more
of a guide into how you should frame everything. Its pretty straight forward.
And this is your standard
display guide. So you can actually change it from 3x3 grids,
you can change it to
diagonals with a lot more grids, its entirely up to you.
Depending on what you shoot and how you want to frame it
Its basically a guide into how you frame your photos.
Again you can change the colours if you want.
Different colours, whatever you feel like, you can change it from thin
to thick.
Alright, so moving onto view.
This is just turning on the camera's live view effects.
So at the moment, what you see is what you get
so if I change the shutter speed for example
and make it faster
you're going to see the effect of it straight away.
If you don't want the what you see is what you get sort
of thing, you can also turn that off.
So that's just going to go to what the camera is seeing right now.
It can come in handy for different situations but
I prefer to see what I'm actually getting
depending on the setting that I'm using.
Live basically just means you can turn the live view off
or on. So it'll just be like that
but I do prefer having the live view turned on.
This is the battery indicator so
it shows how much battery charge you have left in the actual camera.
Moving down here, this is your shooting mode so
AEL is area exposure lock, FEL
is flash exposure lock
AF is essentially pressing
its like how you press the shutter button halfway
which actually says right there. So if I wanted to
I can just
tap the background
half press the shutter button and it'll focus.
And turn that off and I'm going to focus on the camera again
and autofocus. Okay, so
this is just taking the photo.
Alright, so this record button,
it will start filming the video but
its only going to save the footage on the camera. Its not going to transfer
the footage on the computer.
So just keep that in mind if you intend to shoot
video with this. Okay moving onto
interval shooting.
I don't have a folder setup yet but there
is a few things
that you can adjust here so you can start capturing immediately.
You can have a delay up to 23 hours and 59mins
if you really want.
You can also adjust the capture interval time
so the minimum is 10secs, you can adjust it to
5sec unfortunately or even 2 or 3.
So its either 10secs to 180mins
which you can see here.
And you can also
adjust the number of images you want to capture and
if you don't really care, you just want to capture to
a certain amount of time, you can actually adjust
that as well. You don't have to actually see the number of images to capture.
Once that's all set up, you are good to go.
If you are shooting long periods of time though, I would recommend
having your laptop and your camera
connected to an external power source just so it doesn't run out of battery.
Okay so your main settings are here
with the mode, you can only change it on the actual camera itself
so I can't change it through the program
so you will need to just change it on the camera.
So right now, I am changing it to shutter speed, to aperture, program
whatever I feel like but for demonstration purposes,
I am going to put it back on manual.
This is pretty self explanatory you can either go
up or down if you want to go fast or slower
from the shutter speed. I am using the
40mm Zeiss Batis lens so
I can only go down to F2 but if
I wanted to close the aperture down or stop
it down I can do that.
ISO, very self explanatory.
I can change that if I feel like.
And over here, you've got your exposure
compensation and then I can adjust that too.
So I don't need to adjust the dial on the camera if you're using an a7
you can change it here. And this is your flash
exposure compensation. Sub settings is basically like
pressing the Fn button.
For me this is what I have, so I can also
Change my settings from JPEG to RAW, RAW and JPEG.
I can change the quality of it as well
the size, the aspect ratio,
the drive mode so you've got a lot of options there.
Picture effects I don't need at the moment. That's actually greyed out.
Auto white balance, I can change that to
whatever I feel like or whatever the situation accounts for
and this is your dynamic range optimiser
so you can do HDR if you feel like it.
And over here you've got your focus areas.
So cool thing about this,
I am already in it so flexible spot I can change it
like I did before just by tapping the screen
well moving the cursor around.
And the greyed icons are basically what you can't change
depending on what mode that you're in in the camera
So just to let you know, there is a reason why it is greyed out.
Focus is basically toggling between
autofocus and manual focus. The arrows
are the different intensities.
One arrow is to manually focus on something near
and this will intensify it
for example, if I'm shooting that's far away I can do that.
Or if I'm shooting something close, just like that.
So its very self explanatory.
Again if you have any questions about any of these options or these features
just leave a comment down below.
I'm more than happy to help you out with it.
The histogram, very simple. I mean you can
get rid of the greens, blues, reds, yellows whatever you feel like
Just keep that in mind. You can adjust it
and it does help depending on what you're shooting.
The save settings. So this is basically the folder that
you're saving your photos in. While I'm in this mode as well
I can also change the prefix
so whatever I want the file names to be.
Oh! Actually, I forgot the magnifying glass, so if you're manually focusing or you want to fine tune
what you're focusing on, you can actually zoom in a bit.
Its on x1.0 at the moment so I can go closer
by x5.9
and then x11.7
and that's the closest I can get.
So that does come in handy for manual focus just for fine tuning.
And yeah. That's basically it.
So I hope you found this video helpful in terms of what the program
can offer you and give you some insight
into what you can actually do with the Imaging Edge
program. I will be doing other videos on
the Viewer and the Editor. So that's going to be in
upcoming videos but if you have
any questions on what I covered in this tutorial,
please feel free to leave a comment down below
I will leave all the links that you need to
download the software in the description
so take a look at that
but you can also follow me on Facebook
and Instagram more sample photos and photo updates on
different lenses and cameras.
And I think that's pretty much it, so until then,
happy shooting and thanks for watching!
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