Sony A7 Mirrorless Camera - Sony A7III Manual

This guide is intended to help you go through the set-up and correct operation of the Sony
A7 Mk III, in order so you can optimise your filming and produce the best results. Alongside
the induction you have had, and the online manual, you should have everything you need to
produce great looking footage.
This guide will not cover everything in the menu system as it is a very extensive and complex
menu, but it will cover the most important settings that you need to attend too.
In order to produce 4k video that is exquisite, super sharp and well balanced, whether shot
at night or during the day; the camera needs to be setup properly. If you wish to take this
further, you can colour grade the footage afterwards which adds the icing on the cake.
Colour grading is not an essential process to producing great films, as the A7's standard
video settings will produce high quality video easily by itself. That said, grading footage in
post gives it a cinematic look that is not realistically achievable via standard settings without
any further work. Colour grading can add the final touches and stylistic look to film that
really makes it stand out. To be able to take footage through the colour grade process, some
changes need to be made in the settings.
Whilst this guide will not go into colour grading, it will talk about the camera settings
required to produce the best results in colour grading for a high grade cinematic
appearance.
The A7 III has the following specifications:
• 24.2MP 35mm Full-frame CMOS sensor with a back illuminated design
• ISO sensitivity range up to 51200, (expandable ISO from 50-204800 for stills)
• 693 phase detection and 425 contrast-detection Auto Focus points
• 4k HDR movie recording
• Sony E-Mount lenses – As well as our Sony lenses, it will work with all our Canon/
Sigma/Samyang/Tokina/Zeiss lenses with the included Metabones adapter.
Creative Media Centre
David Turner

Sony A7 Mirrorless camera

1 Sony A7 III Settings Guide
October 2019