- All right.
This is exciting.
It's the first vlogging experience
with the
Sony a6600.
I just got it yesterday.
First thing I did was went
through the menu system.
Ugh, I hate going through the menu system.
Actually, maybe that's a good idea.
I'll show you guys how I set up my menu.
♪ Whoa, whoa ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa ♪
♪ Careful who you cross,
careful who you test ♪
♪ Gimme your worst and
you'll get my best ♪
Okay, car's scraped off.
Before we get to the camera settings,
I have some meetings.
I just sat on my coffee cup.
♪ Careful I'm a lion,
don't test my pride ♪
♪ Standing like a mountain ♪
♪ Looking the devil right in his eyes ♪
♪ No, I don't back
down, how to back down ♪
♪ No, I don't know how to
back down, how to back down ♪
♪ No, I don't ♪
Okay, meetings, and then we'll be back.
- [Narrator] One eternity later.
- Okay, I might've lied a little bit.
I just finished my entire
day, not just the meetings.
I had like an hour and a half meeting,
and then I worked like
a full eight hour day.
I was just thinking about
how I'm going to actually show you guys
what my settings are on the a6600,
and I don't really have
a way to do that here.
So, no more cut scenes or anything.
We're just gonna hop straight back home,
and I'll show you guys
(laughs) what my settings are,
for real this time.
I promise it's for real.
Also,
I got this today.
Very excited to try that out.
Let me know if you have
any questions about
the new Rode mic,
for a future video,
okay, I swear, we're going home now.
We're gonna talk about
my settings on the a6600.
Let's do it.
Okay, as promised, we're back at home.
No more lollygagging.
I know we're like two minutes
into the video already,
but here we go.
We're gonna dive into the a6600,
I'm gonna show you guys how I set it up.
I only got this yesterday.
I did have the chance
to play with the a6600
at Sony Camera Camp before.
It was awesome, and one of the reasons why
I knew I wanted to buy it.
If you see me looking
down, below the camera,
I'm not getting distracted or anything.
That's where my monitor is,
so that I can see what's going on
and so that I can record the
screen, to then show you.
So, let's just dive straight in.
All right, so diving into the first menu.
I do actually have this set to RAW.
It currently says JPEG because
my camera is in video mode,
so that does say JPEG, but
you don't want it on JPEG.
If you want to shoot
RAW, you wanna have RAW.
I shouldn't say you don't want JPEG.
You do whatever you wanna do,
but I don't have it on JPEG.
I put it on RAW.
I usually use a three by two aspect ratio.
I do switch this over
to 16 by nine sometimes,
only if I'm specifically shooting
what's going to end up being a 16x9
It just helps me with my composition.
If I'm shooting RAW for photos,
I can get back the three by two anyway,
by uncropping in Lightroom,
because I'm using RAW files.
Long exposure noise
reduction, I leave off.
High ISO noise reduction,
I just leave on normal.
Onto page two.
Color space, we're gonna leave as sRGB.
Lens compensation, shading
and chromatic aberration,
default to auto,
but distortion compensation
actually defaults to off,
so I turned that on auto.
All of this stuff is stuff
that you can actually change
depending on what setting and stuff,
so it's not really a big deal
while you're in the menus.
Again, more stuff.
All this focus stuff is stuff
that I change all the time,
whether I'm in continuous autofocus
or any of that kinda stuff.
I'm gonna be changing
that while I'm shooting
so I don't worry about it
in the menu specifically.
The AF Illuminator, I
turn off immediately.
I don't want that little red
flashing light all the time.
AF with shutter, I leave on.
I'm not a back button focus guy.
Pre-AF, it defaults to
off, and I leave it off.
This was something that I remember
when I got my first Sony camera.
It defaulted to on, and
I couldn't figure out why
it was constantly focusing all the time.
I wanted it to stop, and only
focus when I told it to focus.
I'm a control freak like that.
Display continuous autofocus area.
This is pretty important
if you want to see where it's autofocusing
in continuous autofocus mode.
Again, this is more stuff
that I would probably set
as I was shooting.
I just leave the auto
exposure lock with shutter
set to auto.
Don't worry about anything in the flash
'cause I don't really use flash.
Does this have a flash?
This camera doesn't even
have a flash anymore.
It must be for external flash though.
The heat is turning on in my apartment.
(metal clanging)
White balance, we're gonna
be changing on the fly,
as we're shooting,
and we'll talk about
picture profiles later.
Shutter auto white balance lock.
I leave this off.
I don't use auto white balance often,
but I have another thing to show you guys
about auto white balance later,
that I really like about this camera.
Focus magnifier time,
I set to five seconds.
You can set it shorter
or you can set it so there's no limit.
I find sometimes when I
use the focus magnifier
to try and help get focus,
when I'm in manual focus,
I don't wanna have to hit
something to get it out
because then I shake the camera.
So, setting it to five seconds
means I just have to
hang out for five seconds
for it to kind of go away.
And then I like the
manual focus assist on.
I actually flip this
back and forth sometimes,
depending on what kinda situation I'm in.
I love that I can double tap the screen
to use the focus magnifier.
So, I don't always use the MF assist.
And then as far as peaking goes,
I like to set it to
on, peaking level high,
and the color is red for me.
And then we're on to the second tab.
Break for some coffee.
We're crushing here.
Okay, so these settings in this folder
are mostly for video stuff.
So we're looking at the
movie exposure mode.
Now, it doesn't say movie exposure,
but there's the little
like film thing beside it
to show you that it's
talking about movie mode,
that matches the little movie symbol
on the actual dial itself.
So we know that we want
to be in manual exposure,
or personally, that's how I like to shoot.
Now, this file format is where
I'm going to actually change,
if I'm going from my 4K
24 frames per second,
which is what I typically shoot in,
so I would change this to the 4K option.
But currently, because I'm
outputting to record the screen,
I have it set to HD 24, but
this is also where I would go
if I wanted to record
at 60 frames per second
or if I wanted to record
at 120 frames per second.
Right now I am happy with my
24, because I'm recording to,
you know what I'm talking about.
S&Q settings we will mess with later,
and I don't do proxy recordings.
I've been thinking about
messing with it though lately.
We'll see.
Autofocus drive speed.
Right now I'm leaving it
at normal and standard.
Sometimes I mess around with this,
but it depends on the camera.
The a7 III, I find that the
autofocus isn't quite as fast
as
the
a6600
or the a6400,
and so I think I actually
jack up the autofocus speed
on the a7 III a little bit,
but I change it depending
on the situation.
Auto slow shutter, I leave on.
This would be to allow it
to make these shutter speeds slower
to get more light in
and then it would get
that choppy kinda look.
It doesn't really matter to me
because I don't let it control
the shutter speed anyway.
Audio recording is on.
Audio recording level,
we're gonna get to later.
I basically leave all
this exactly where it is,
except for movie with shutter, I turn on,
so when you're in movie
mode, if you're on the dial,
if you flip it to movie mode
and you use the shutter,
on some of the newer cameras,
you can actually initiate recording.
On my 6500 that's not an option.
You have to use the little record button
that's on the side of the handle
that everybody hates so much.
Silent shooting, I usually leave it off.
I have that in my function menu
so I can get to it quickly if I need to.
Front curtain shutter, I leave on.
Release without lens and
release without card,
yeah, that's fine.
SteadyShot, leave that on.
SteadyShot settings, I just leave as auto.
I changed the zoom setting
to Clear Image Zoom.
I find that it can be helpful sometimes.
Display button.
So, I almost
always
use the monitor.
I just turn off the
finder, the viewfinder,
because I just never use it.
I find that compositionally,
I can move around a lot easier
and I can get shots that I couldn't get
if I had to have my eye up
to the actual viewfinder.
So, I go in here and I think it defaults
to having for viewfinder on,
and I just turn that off.
Okay, finder monitor
is currently disabled,
because of the way that I'm recording,
but I almost always
have it set to monitor.
If you go into that menu,
there's something that says like auto,
which will allow you to, when
you raise it to your eye,
it'll automatically switch over
to the electronic viewfinder.
But I find that annoying,
nine times out of 10,
so I just switch it over
to the actual monitor,
and then I go in and manually
switch it to the viewfinder
if I want to use that, which
is again, almost never.
Finder frame rate. I just
leave that on standard,
because again, I rarely
use the viewfinder.
We'll get into zebras later.
I like to have my rule of thirds grid on,
I like to have my auto review off.
Now we're getting into the fun stuff.
Okay, so my custom keys,
there are a handful of
custom keys on this.
There's actually one more than
I'm used to with the 6400.
If you don't know these first three here,
there's different custom key
setups for photos, videos,
and playback modes.
So that first custom key,
this is the one on the back
and it actually says AF/MF on
the actual body of the camera.
So I leave that as AF/MF,
but I change it from control
hold to control toggle.
So what that means is
that I don't have to hold down the button
to switch it into
autofocus and manual focus,
to go back and forth between the two.
So that's basically like
having a switch on your lens.
Some of the higher end lenses
have the switch on them
from autofocus to manual focus.
I basically program a button
on my camera to do that.
Then, if the switch is
in the downward position,
it currently says AEL, auto exposure lock,
but I don't use it for that.
I use it for auto white
balance lock toggle.
Now this is a fairly new feature for Sony.
What this does is if you're
in auto white balance,
you can actually lock it away.
And this is super handy,
especially for videographers,
because you don't want
your white balance changing
throughout a shot.
If you point at a
different source of light
or if you're in a
different area of the room
and the white balance seems
different to the camera,
it'll constantly be shifting.
But if you, before every shot,
you hit this auto white
balance lock toggle,
then you're gonna be good to go.
And again, I use the toggle
rather than the whole
and that allows me to
just have to click it
and it'll lock, and if I
go to my main page here,
let me go to auto white balance,
and then if I hit that,
you can see down in the right hand corner
there's an auto white balance lock signal,
so I know that I'm locked.
Then right now, I have number three,
which is right beside those
two, set to my white balance.
This one's actually kinda new to me
because that button isn't on my a6400,
which is the most
comparable body that I have,
but I'm excited to try that out.
And number four, which is
down in the right hand corner,
is my zebra display select.
So that basically turns on and off zebras,
which I use a lot,
to make sure I'm getting proper exposure.
Moving to the next page.
The center button focus standard,
that's what it comes default as.
Number two, which is the
left button on the ring,
is drive mode, and I leave that.
Number three is ISO, and I leave that.
Number four is exposure compensation,
and I leave that as well.
On the a7 III I actually
changed the downward button
to focus peaking display.
The reason being because
the a7 III already has
a dedicated dial for
exposure compensation.
And then going to the top of the camera,
there are two custom buttons.
I have that currently
set to white balance.
Actually I wanna change that.
What did I want to set that as again?
Oh yeah, zoom.
There we go.
So now, when I hit that button
I'll be able to use the clear image zoom
and zoom into, I think it's 1.5 times.
Basically, instead of going
from a 6K down sample to 4k,
I can just zoom into that 4k
and we're still getting
a full quality 4K file.
And number two is monitor brightness.
I use that when I'm outside
and I can't see the monitor very well.
I can crank it up and
you can see it just fine.
Then if you've got a lens
with a custom button on it,
you can set it here,
but I don't own any of
those, so it doesn't matter.
Now, if we back out and we go
into the movie custom keys,
so when we're in movie mode
we can have separate custom keys.
But right now I just have
it following the custom keys
of the photo mode.
So, all of them are exactly the same.
I've tested out trying to customize these,
depending on what setting I'm in,
but I just found it more
confusing than anything.
Then, if we go into the
playback custom keys,
custom button number three
here, I set to rating,
and what that allows me
to do is rate my photos
right inside
of my playback, so that when
I get it into Lightroom,
they're already rated,
and I know which ones I'm going to use.
And then the function
button is actually set to
send to smartphone,
so if I'm in playback mode
and I see a photo that I like,
I can hit function and it'll pull up
all of the things that I need
to send it directly to my smartphone.
Then, the custom buttons on top.
Just follow the other ones.
Backing out, okay.
Function menu setting.
So when I hit the function
button, this is what I see,
at the bottom of my
screen while I'm shooting.
So, the top left corner,
I use my picture profile.
Beside that I've got focus mode.
Beside that I've got my focus area,
which I like to change from wide
if I'm just letting the
camera do all the work,
down to a single spot often.
My audio record level, which
I need to change quite often
when I'm shooting video.
Exposure compensation is
just a kind of a backup.
I know I have it set
to the downward button.
Then my metering mode.
There's my silent shooting,
so that's nice and easy
to get to if I need to.
I've got my shooting mode,
so if I wanna change into a different mode
while I'm in video, that's
nice and handy to have there.
I've got my face detection
and eye detection.
I've got my zebra levels here,
which I need to change sometimes,
depending on what picture
profile I'm using.
They all have different max output levels,
so you want to make sure
you set that accordingly.
Then we've got gamma display assist,
which can be super handy,
again, for picture profiles.
If you're shooting in something
like S-Log2, S-Log3 or HLG,
it basically puts like a
correction LUT onto your screen
so you can see what
it's going to look like
after it's corrected.
Then we've got creative style button,
which I don't use a whole lot,
but every once in a while,
if I need to shoot something
that I need to look great
straight outta camera,
I can kinda tweak it there,
if I know I don't want to be
color correcting it later.
And if I actually go to my shooting screen
and go to my function menu,
I'll show you kinda what
I do with some of these.
So, I'm in picture profile 10 right now,
which defaults to the HLG one.
I've been kinda playing with different HLG
between all the different
four options here.
My last bunch of videos
were all shot in HLG3.
This one I'm shooting in HLG2.
Other than that, the
only thing that I change
is I go to the detail
and I dial it down to -7.
So, that's the picture profile.
I sometimes go in and mess with
number one, two, three and four,
if I wanna do some weird custom stuff,
but I haven't done that so far.
I've just been shooting with HLG.
And I have that custom button
set up to go to manual focus,
so I'm not using that.
Focus area, so typically
I'll either use wide
or I like to use this expand
flexible spot metering mode.
Doesn't change a whole lot,
but sometimes I go to
a center weighted one.
Gamma display assist is nice.
So you can see it can
automatically choose,
depending on the profile you're in,
or you can custom set it, S-Log2, S-Log3,
HLG 2020
or HLG 709.
Oh, and I guess that's another thing too,
is that right now I've changed my HLG
to go to 709.
This is another thing that
I've been playing with,
so this isn't like, "You should do this."
It's, I've been going back and forth
and trying out the BT 2020 and the 709,
and seeing which one I like better.
I find BT 2020 I have
to do a lot more work
to get it where I want it to go.
Whether it's better or not,
it's tough to tell at this point.
But, 709 seems to be easier to work with.
Okay, getting onto the dial settings,
I don't do anything with that dial.
Wheel set up, I just leave it as is.
So the wheel on the
back is my shutter speed
and the dial that is
intended for aperture,
on the top of the camera, is aperture.
And then the way that they
rotate, I leave as normal.
Movie button set to always.
So that that movie button,
in the weird place that
everyone hates it, works.
Audio signals I turn to off,
so I don't want it to be
beeping when it finds focus,
and I don't want it to beep
when it starts and stops.
Okay, so now we're into
the network settings,
and I don't change a whole
lot of things in here.
The send to smartphone function
I have mapped to a custom key,
so I don't worry about that.
Control with smartphone,
I do use sometimes.
Generally I leave it off
and then just turn it on when I need it.
Apparently airplane mode can
save you some battery life,
but I don't really worry about that.
None of this I touch, and
then we're into playback.
I don't change any of this stuff.
Just all default.
Display as group is pretty cool.
If you're doing a time-lapse
or burst shooting,
you can have them automatically group,
and then you can actually have
them play back a time-lapse
in the camera, so I leave that as on.
Display rotation. I set to off.
I don't know why.
On my a7 III it's set to
automatic and I don't know.
I don't know which one I like better yet.
This is all stuff that I have
other buttons set up for.
I just leave that all alone.
Display quality defaults to standard.
Put it on high, I guess.
I don't know.
I don't find that it makes
that much of a difference.
Power save start time,
I set to five minutes,
because sometimes when I'm setting up,
if I'm setting up lights
and all that kinda stuff
and it's automatically turning itself off,
it gets kind of annoying.
Auto power off temperature.
I set this to high,
and I would suggest that you do the same.
That basically is gonna mean
that you're not gonna have
any issue with overheating.
The older Sony cameras had
problems with overheating
because the camera would
shut down as a safety feature
before it got to a certain temperature.
This basically is saying let
it go to a higher temperature
before you shut it down.
I've never had any issue with overheating
on anything
above the a6500,
because of this function.
Touch operation, I have on.
This I don't really use,
so I don't worry about it.
I have my IR remote off.
HDMI settings I'm not
gonna touch right now,
because I'm recording,
so they're all set up
specifically to that.
USB connection, set to auto.
USB power supply is set to on.
So sometimes I actually
plug in a USB power supply
so that it doesn't run out of battery.
Although now, with the
new batteries in the a6600
I probably won't have to do that as much.
My language is set to English,
if that surprises you.
I do change my file names
to DUN, it defaults to DSC
and then it'll be like
zero, zero, zero, one
but mine are Dunna's files,
'cause I'm nerdy like that.
Folder name, I've been going
back and forth on this,
between standard form and date form.
Standard form basically
just throws them all
into one big folder.
Date form actually puts
each day worth of photos
in a different folder.
It doesn't do anything for
videos, which is too bad
because it would be nice to
have my videos sorted by day.
But for now I'm gonna stick
with standard form on this one.
And then we're into the My Menu,
and this is another customizable
function that you have.
If you go over to the last
page of the My Menu setting,
you can add an item, sort an
item, delete item, delete page,
delete all, that kind of thing.
So I've added these specific
items that are like,
these are all things
that I need to get at,
but I don't need to get at very often.
And so for example, my
file format for video,
so this is again where I can
change between 4K and HD.
Record settings, so this is
where I can go between 24p,
60 frames per second, 120
frames per second, et cetera.
I've got a format button.
This actually, I do use quite often,
so it's nice to have it handy like that.
This is where I format my memory card.
Control a smartphone, so if
I'm gonna use that function,
it's easy to get at.
Interval shooting function,
which I don't do a whole lot of,
but when I do, it's
nice to not have to dig
through all the menus for it.
And then I've got my memory recall,
which we'll get back
to in just one second.
And then on the second page,
right now I've got the S&Q settings.
There's probably more that I'll
add to this as I find them,
but like I said, I only
got this camera yesterday,
so I haven't quite got everything in there
that I'm sure, in a month
there'll be two pages full of it.
I know on the a7 III
I have two full pages.
Now, when it comes to memory recall,
there are two spots on the
dial here for memory recall.
So, basically that's a custom setting.
So what mode you're in,
what your white balance is,
what picture profile you're
on, all of that kinda stuff.
So generally, what I'll do is
memory recall position one
will be 24 frames per second,
4K at the highest bit rate that I can go,
and it will have daylight white balance.
It will have picture profile 10
on some kind of HLG
setting, lately anyway.
It'll have
ISO 125 because the HLG, that's
the bottom end of the HLG.
Shutter speed, one 50th of a second.
Autofocus area set to wide,
and it remembers all of that in there.
And then memory function two
is almost all the same settings
except it's 60 frames per second, 1080.
Shutter speed is one, one 25th,
and pretty much everything
else is the same.
Now, the reason that I
use 60 instead of 120
is because the autofocus is
better in 60 frames per second.
And then, like I said, on My Menu page two
I've got the S&Q settings.
I rarely, rarely use S&Q,
but every once in a while
I want a like quick time-lapse
or I want to shoot some slow motion
that I can just put on
my phone and upload.
Yeah, so that's it.
That's my whole setup.
That's every single menu
on how I set up my a6600.
I'm the kinda person who
changes a lot of this stuff.
So, I'd be really interested to see
if you guys set it up
differently on yours.
On whatever your camera is.
Are there settings that I said
that you like differently, and why?
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Thanks so much for going on
that little vlogging adventure
earlier in the video,
and I hope that this was helpful for you.
If you have any questions,
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