Mathieu Gasquet
Mathieu Gasquet is the co-owner and editor of Mirrorless Comparison, as well as the man behind all the camera tests. Mathieu has been a professional photographer for over 15 years. Before specializing in camera reviews, he worked as an event photographer for the National Cinema Museum in Turin, and as a videomaker for renowned Italian agencies, which allowed him to collaborate with important names such as Fiat, Sky Italia, Maserati, and more. Mathieu also studied cinema in France and obtained a degree in cinematography at the A.R.F.I.S. school in Lyon.
Since moving to Wales and the country side, landscape photography has become one of my favourite genre, and the dynamism of the ever changing light of this country give me plenty of opportunities.
Sony makes excellent sensors with great dynamic range, which means that cameras such as the Sony A7 III are excellent for landscape photography, and other models like the A7R III and A7R IV give you a large amount of resolution to work with.
To take a good photograph, there are really only three settings you need to worry about: aperture, shutter speed and ISO, which are also known as the exposure triangle. Actually, we could be lazier then that by rotating the main dial to Auto, letting the camera pick all the settings and simply concentrating on the composition as we do with smartphones.
Dig a little deeper however, and you’ll see that your A7 camera has a plethora of settings, many of which are related to photography and image quality.
The third and fourth generation A7 cameras, as well as the A9 series, have a built-in viewfinder and a tilting LCD screen on the rear with touch capabilities. There are several settings you can configure to get the most out of your EVF and monitor. Let’s take a look at them.
Memory cards are the most important accessory you can buy for your camera for a simple reason: they save all the photos you record. This means that having a little bit of knowledge about memory cards is not a bad idea.
SD cards come with a lot of specifications and there is often confusion surrounding them. The truth is that you don’t always need the most powerful or fastest SD card on the market to get the best performance from your cameras.
The most recent Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras have two memory card slots. This allows you to set up your cards in various ways. For example you can have your Sony A7 III write to both cards, or use slot 2 to record just certain types of files.
In this article, I’m going to guide you through all the settings, what they mean and how to configure the Sony A7 series dual card slot. If you want to know which cards I recommend for your A7 / A9 model, check out our dedicated article below.
