Sony A7 IV Autofocus Guide and Test. All autofocus settings for the Sony A7 IV explained

Hope I was able to answer any questions you had in the video, but if not feel free to comment your question below and I will get back to you :)

So which focal area should I use with a group picture? The Zone or Wide?

On preview of pictures showing green squares , how to switch it off?
Also possible to make changes of using this green square to make portraits so how to save with changes?

Video needs an update. Doesnt look like the auto focus shift sensitivity function is there any more.

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Your videos are very easy to understand, even for people who are not good at English like me. The images in your videos are very intuitive.
Thank you very much for your video. Hope your channel grows more and more!

Great video !!!

My A7 IV does not find the face/eye automatically.
Eye AF and continuous AF are activated.
If I let it track the object, it also finds the face/eye.
However, the camera only does this if I specify it manually.

What am I doing wrong?

Hi I have question what is Your opinion what is the best focus setup for cooking videos?

Thanks
Jarek

anybody knows how to stop pre-af in video mode?

Great video. Very helpful to this new A7iv owner. Thanks!

Wow super helpful. Some stuff I learned just now. This video better than the camera manuals. Hope to learn more from your vids! Just subbed.

I have a doubt that, is it ok if i keep AF on lens while my camera is in M mode ????????

wow

does af-c mode also focuses automatically on photo mode or the shutter button has to be press half way too?

I think I may have asked this before, but what if there are two faces in the area chosen? How do you stop it from going back and forth?

thank you so much...great video

Great video .. thanks.

Thank you for this - Its very useful

Super helpful! Thank you

Thanks for this. Why in some of your shots do you see the eye AF go green, and in others not. I never see the green box in video? On an a7iv

Hi Tymek, I’ve just purchased the A7iv and when I unboxed it and set it up it was on Version 1.01, however with the updates I’m on Version 2 now and looking at page 21 of the menu under ‘Focus Mode’ the transition speed and AF Subj: Shift Sensitivity seem to have disappeared. I’m just wondering if I’ve missed something somewhere or what 🤷‍♂️

Just unboxed my a7IV and G Master 22mm 1.4 lens - first real camera after 1.1k videos! Thank you for this super helpful!

Thank you ,this really helped

hi, i hope you're still active, i need help with the peaking. in my sony a7iii focus peaking only shows when i'm in manual mode, and i find it really helpful that way, but in my a7iv, focus peaking always shows even in AF mode and it is distracting. i hope you can help me with this one. thanks

THANK YOU

You didn' mention SPOT FOCUS (A circle on the screen)

Hi, I have a Sony a7iv, do you know how to open a new folder so that I see the photos starting from 0 and not from the photos taken before??

Thanks so much

Thank you for this video, I recently bought my A7IV recently and this is my first time with a camera like this one, I upgrade from a Nikon F100, yep you read that correctly! What is this joy stick you are talking about in the video? TIA

I can't see the focus box after the last update. Tracking works, but the box is gone. Any ideas?

Excellent video. Clear, concise, to the point, no BS. I just upgraded from a Nikon D3300 to an A7IV and I’m blown away.

Love your relaxed style Tymek. Not all 'Hi Guys and shouty'. It was really informative and helpful. I've learned some much more in 8 minutes than days reading the manual.

Really appreciate how straight to the point this video is. You dive right into explaining things in a clear way, instead of wasting everyone's time with over the top VFX intros and cringey monologues. Subscribed.

My current issue is I am recording with my iPhone and it’s constantly losing focus when I record products. For example, in my video, I’m trying to edit right now, I tap the screen to focus on the strap of this Nintendo switch case. But then I move the case down a little bit and suddenly it’s blurry. So I have to tap to focus it. But then I move it all around a little bit, and then at least focus so I have to tap to focus it again. And then I open it up to show the inside, and yet again, it’s losing focus so I have to tap on the screen to focus on the inside of the case.

This makes it to where it takes forever to make videos. It takes forever to record them, and it takes forever to edit them. And I avoid it because it’s such a headache.

To my experience, the A7iv autofocus is pretty terrible for fast moving subjects in cloudy conditions. Subject detection and tracking work great, but only about 30% of the shots are properly focused in large zone, 10 or 8 FPS. The best settings I found is tracking spot at 6 FPS, with 70% hit rate. I wish I had known before I bought this thing.

Tymek, thanks for this video. Along with the great AF in the a7IV comes great complexity/confusion. Your clarifications are appreciated.

On my new bought A7 IV there is Tracking option in Focus Area menu. What is the difference with tapping tracking option in lcd ?

Such a helpful to the point demo. Thank you!

This is what I am looking for. Thank you for sharing

Great video man thanks!

I was at an event filming people dancing. As soon as a subject I was filming turned around facing back to me, the camera would automatically focus on the faces in the backgrounds. This was very annoying

Hi thanks for the video. I was wondering when you mentioned damaging the system when my lens is on af and I select mf on my body? When I do this the screen tells me that I cant do that so it wont let me af while on mf...

Very nice detailed explanations. Great help for a beginner like me.

Very well done with relevant b-rolls. Thank you! Keep up the good work!!!

One of the best explanations I've come across! I'm a sony a7rIII used and this has been very helpful! thank you

Thank you!

Nice channel I have binging your videos though I may already have the information.

Very well explained.. but I m struggling to choose focus settings for family portrait.. what focus setting do u recommend.