- Good morning.
It is 8:59 am,
and today I am gonna be filming a wedding
with the Sony A7S III.
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♪ Get it ♪
Dynamic range on this thing is just so good.
It's an amazing camera.
I keep saying that, but it's amazing.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Love it, love it, love it.
So great, so, so great.
My friends at Sony were able to send me
an advanced copy of this camera.
This is a full production model, final firmware,
and I'm gonna put it through its paces
at a real wedding.
(crowd cheers)
Beyond excited about this, beyond excited.
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I was eating breakfast of biscuits and eggs
with my wife and baby yesterday
and I got a text from one of my friends at Sony and he says,
"Hey, you want to try out the A7S III?"
Yes, of course.
"Cool, when can you pick it up?"
So I got the camera and I immediately thought,
can I film a wedding with it?
So I called my friend Phil.
This guy.
And said, Hey, you got any weddings coming up?
And he said, "How about tomorrow?"
So now I'm filming a wedding today, with the A7S III.
Proper dental hygiene is important before any wedding.
Almost to the wedding venue.
Temperature is currently 93 degrees Fahrenheit,
but don't you worry.
This is just the start of the day,
guaranteed to get hotter,
and with that humidity as well,
hm, it feels like 106.
Great, love it.
- Came close to locking on to Buc-ee's face.
I kid you not.
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(motor bike engines accelerating)
I don't know what's going on, but I love it
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Welcome to Balmorhea,
Balmohrea,
Balmorhea?
I don't know how you pronounce this place.
Beautiful wedding venue,
here in the Northwest of Houston.
The A7S III is not the only new piece of gear
I'm shooting with at this wedding.
We also have the Zhiyun Crane 2S,
yes, which is going to be balanced well with the A7S III
even with the battery grip.
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All right.
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Oh, hot day today, very hot day,
but doing well right now,
trying to get some nice ambient shots here of the venue,
trees, fountain, details,
things like that, establishing,
pretty simple, pretty straightforward,
but my goodness,
the dynamic range of the A7S III
with these establishing shots is incredible.
I'm like, sky's properly exposed,
shadow's properly exposed,
cloud's not overexposed.
I'm shooting buildings
but I don't wanna see clouds there
that are overexposed.
It looks so good.
I mean this is XAVCS-I
or I 240 megabits per second,
4:2:2 10-bit, and also push on this bridge here.
Really nice parallax movement on the bridge,
and we get this stuff behind it.
Look at that shadow detail.
It's taking a lot of room there,
a lot of detail and shadows.
There's the bride and groom's cottage
where they're getting ready.
Let's do a nice wide gimbal shot.
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Gonna film a little bride interview.
- The moment I met him,
he was just someone that you could tell cared
and wanted to go the extra mile.
And I'd never felt that with anyone else
and felt so loved and so cared for.
Can't wait to be there to watch him be an amazing father.
- There is now a couch out here in the field,
where the girls are gonna be hanging out.
- Okay like can you cross your arms like into each other.
Yeah that's cute.
Some hold hands
I say going here one two three, awesome.
Okay let's see the bride
- Looking a little moody with this lighting here.
The groom is about to come in here,
actually standing about where I'm at I think,
and we're gonna film him getting ready.
So a little dramatic light coming in.
See how the A7S III handles that
highlight shadow roll off indoors.
There's also a lot of green coming in
because of the lights reflecting off the grass outside.
So I'm very interested how this color cracks to remove that.
Should be really fascinating to see.
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(bridesmen laughs)
- One, two, three go.
(bridesmaids cheers)
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- We're now done with all of the prep for the day,
and now it's time to have the ceremony right in here.
I'm very interested to see how the A7S III handles recording
for a longer period of time.
Granted, this is an air conditioned building,
I'm not really worried,
but I'm still going to set it up.
See how it does.
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(guests cheers)
Wedding ceremony is now complete.
It wasn't that long,
about 15 ish minutes.
So, got through pretty quickly.
Zero sign of overheating.
Camera got slightly warm.
I'd say not any warmer than my A7S II
This isn't super dramatic either.
Considering my A7S II can survive
for hours long weddings,
indoors in 4K and air conditioning.
So this isn't like revolutionary
that the A7S III can also record
indoors 4K in air conditioning.
One interesting thing I learned though,
is that the A7S III eye detect auto-focus
actually works with people are wearing a face mask.
So, if you are filming a wedding
and there are people wearing face masks,
you can still get that focus.
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This little interior establishing shots here
nothing too crazy.
Well florals. Well detail.
Very nice, very nice.
Green too, handling all that well,
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Most important photo of the day.
Never thought it would be of burrows.
In case you are not aware of what's going on right now.
One of the best parts of filming a wedding in Texas
is the beer burrows.
The little donkeys that have come to
a decent amount of weddings I've film,
and they have little baskets with beer,
hence the beer burrow title.
I love it. I love them.
They're wonderful.
I want to take one home with me.
My baby could ride them.
Couple portrait time out here.
There's light, nice.
Don't know where they are right now.
You can come in.
You can be on this.
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All righty. A lot of stuff is about to happen
back to back, to back, to back.
Couple's gonna come in,
immediately we're gonna go into first dance,
all of the formal dances,
dinner,
the A7S III is handling everything flawlessly.
I just keep looking at it lovingly.
I'm like, it's just so good. It's wonderful.
I love it. It's amazing.
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Almost time for the exit.
A little bit of Rolls Royce.
All right. People lining up for exit.
(guests cheers)
(car honks)
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Thank you so much for watching this wedding filmmaking
behind the scenes with the Sony A7S III.
This camera is in one word, incredible.
And I am so excited to film many more weddings
with it in the future.
I have many more videos that I plan on releasing
about this camera very soon,
including an in depth review of the A7S III
for wedding filmmakers.
And if you're interested in seeing that,
I would love if you would consider liking this video
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I also want to give a huge shout out
and thank you to my friend, Phil,
for allowing me to tag along to this wedding.
Thanks Phil.
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Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.