i can't tell you how many times i've been asked to just get some photos real quick
while i've been out on a video shoot that camera there it can do both right
my answer's always been yes but it hasn't always been fast or simple because you got to redial in
all your settings that you need to change things like your shutter speed well props to you for
taking a deeper look at the fx3 because sony has us in mind to shoot better hybrid photo video much
faster and today i'm going to show you those settings that you need to set up enough talk
let's get into the menu system and let's set up your sony fx3 for fast hybrid photo video shooting
okay first up hit that menu button and we're gonna go down to the shooting menu the red one and we're
going down to number four shooting mode and make sure that you're on exposure control type set to
flexible exposure mode if you click in on that you've got also the p-a-s-m mode we don't want
that one we want flexible exposure mode and if you're ever curious what things do in the menus
there's this little hidden gem if you hit the trash can button that's going to give you more
information about any sort of setting that's in here so that's a little good extra thing to know
but just make sure you're set to flexible exposure mode flexible exposure mode let's use the buttons
and dials as they come from the factory as they're labeled here on the camera so i probably wouldn't
change that it's actually super cool the way they work is if you tap let's say the button 3
here where it says iso it's going to lock that value in so even if you move the dial it's not
going to change accidentally so if your hands are rummaging around on the camera you don't have to
worry about it it's set it's not going to be changing the other thing that they can do is
they can go into auto mode for you if you hold it down so just press and hold it it'll quickly go to
auto mode this could be handy you know with iso if you're going from inside of a building to outside
of a building real quick just let the camera do the math and figure it out for you and then
once you get to that other you know super bright or super dark area you can hold it again to go
back into manual exposure or manual iso and have all the control that you need and you're golden
okay next up this is sort of the crutch of it all if you hit menu again and we go all the way down
to the setup menu the yellow one here and go to operation customize and then from operation
customize we're going to different set still for movie this is new to the sony a7s 3 the sony fx3
what this is going to let you do as you click into here is if you hit the check box you can
set all these settings here different between your movie mode and your stills mode so obviously
the important things for me are things like aperture shutter speed iso i want those to
be stuck and sort of whatever i set them last in those modes i want them to still be the same so
feel free to go through here and check the boxes that you want to have control over separately
and then just click ok and then that is uh that that lets you keep those settings as you switch
quickly between things like aperture priority and the movie mode most of the time when i flip
to photo mode i actually like to use aperture priority with auto iso minimum shutter speed
that special little feature that's in there and i set it to around 1/250th of a second
because i'm usually shooting moving people and that sort of thing this auto iso minimum
shutter speed it's kind of like shooting manual mode but it gives you the added benefit that it
always prioritizes a proper exposure so that way you don't accidentally under expose something
like you could in manual with fast changing lighting environments think like a concert or
stage lighting basically auto iso minimum shutter speed it tries to always hold that shutter speed
that you set as a minimum until your set auto iso max is maxed out think like if you had 12,800
as your as your auto iso max and then you needed more light then it's going to drop
your shutter speed okay then it's going to slow it down that way it doesn't under expose it
this is a big sony camera hidden gem all that being said we still need exposure compensation
on here there's not a dial for it so i set that up on the back dial here with my custom dial set
over here in the setup menu we go down to dial customize then we have this thing called my dial
settings click into there and here you have three different sets that you can program however you
want i like to make my stills the same as movies and i'm mostly shooting in aperture priority here
so i have the front dial set to the iris the rear dial set to iso and then because
i'm shooting an aperture priority and we don't have an exposure compensation dial and i'm not
changing shutter speed i use that control wheel for my uh exposure compensation works out great
and then i do actually have a second set here for when i was shooting manual so like i'll do
time lapses and whatnot in manual photo mode and so this mimics how the camera comes and works
in that flexible exposure mode um exactly the same you know for photo so we have
iris then we have iso for that back rear dial and then our shutter speed is that back control wheel
so we have those set up here and the way you set them obviously you just you click in and on it
and you can change whatever you want that to be okay i think you can figure that part out but
the thing that's tricky is how do you call those different sets up well you go have to go back over
to operation customize which is in the the third menu down and go to custom key set and you have
to set that to a button so i have mine set to the trash can button if you click into there you can
toggle and you know you can set that to whatever you want it to do i like to have it jump between
one two three and since i just have two of them programmed it just does two of them so to see
this in action all we need to do is hit mode to go from movie mode and we're gonna go up to
aperture priority i'm in aperture priority i hit the trashcan button and boom like that you saw
right there at the bottom of the screen it has a star one that means that our dial set right now
anytime i move the dials it's gonna behave like we had set up there so the front dial is going
to be changing my f-stops my back top dial there is going to be changing my iso although i like to
use auto iso a lot right there with my minimum shutter speed set and then the bottom one is my
exposure compensation so just like that if then if i need to go back and shoot a movie real quick
i just hit mode and then i can roll it right back down to movie mode and it remembered all
the settings that i had right you know in that situation right there so super quick way here's
movie mode i hit move mode again and i go right back up to aperture priority i can get a picture
right back and forth super fast hybrid shooting before we wrap up with a couple more tips i just
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two final things i suggest you turn on for photos in here is to make sure
that you're capturing raw files and the compressed raw files are actually great
and then you can also make it easy on yourself by changing between the 16 by nine and three by two
aspect ratio by using the quick function menu if you shoot raw you still have access to the full
frame to adjust the crop later on but it's super helpful to have that 16 by nine crop photo that
way you can use it for a video thumbnail later on and now you're ready to quickly snap that
photo and flip back into movie mode with all your settings dialed in perfectly please give
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