Sharing this and hoping to get some feedback on setting up PPs.
I love the idea setting up different film simulations on my Sony as I've envied my Fujifilm friends for years! And when I subscribed to these PP recipes I thought I'd be shooting a different film simulation every day. Here's my issue however; I can only SAVE onto my camera USER 1-2-3, M1, M2 M3, and M4.
I watched your YouTube video several times on adjusting the Picture Profiles but maybe I missed the part about saving them for easy retrieval. I was further confronted with the problem that setting up each PP, 1 through 10 was fruitless because I had to manually change the WB and Kelvin each time, unless saved in USER 1-2-3 or M1, M2, M3 and M4.
Am I missing something? Id like to plug in 10 film recipes and seamlessly select one from another depending on my desired need to shoot a recipe.
Setting up a specific WB for one PP seems to continue on when I selected another PP. In that case I might be setting these recipes wrong.
I love getting film recipes update from my subscription and would love a faster way to shoot all of these presets easier.
Thanks, I hope someone has a good work around to my problem.
Hei there, welcome to the forum and thanks for asking!
If you already know about the MR modes and how to save the recipes to those memory slots, that is the closest you will get to fuji's all around film simulation containers.
That particular video you are talking about did not include how to save the film simulations into the MR slots,I will make a video on it soon, it's on the 'To do list'.
You got the idea behind the MR slots pretty much right, besides one detail.
The idea is when using MR slots, you only use the one film simulation you have saved, not all 10 PP slots. otherwise is just like you said, you still need to change the settings for all 10 manually and it doesn't make sense like that.
You input 1 film simulation, save it to a MR and when you switch to the MR slot, you only use that PP slot. Don't switch between PP1-PP10.
How to save and use MR slots to easily switch between film simulations:
Basically you input the settings save them to a empty MR and then switch between MR slots to load up the film simulation. From there you only adjust exposure using shutter speed iso and apperture.
For this method to make sense, you can only use one PP slot for each MR slot.
So for example you only customize PP1 ( it can be pp2 pp3 pp4 and so on, doesn't matter, they are identical) and you save it let's say to MR1.
Remember your camera will save every single setting you have in the moment of registering to a MR slot. That means even if it's set to Manual Mode or S A P, AUTO, Iso, Shutter speed and Apperture values, in some cases if it's set to photo or video mode in the moment of saving it to a memory recall slot.
This is an advatnage, let me explain.
To make the shooting experience easier for you and ready to go as you switch between film simulations, you can set to the camera to Shutter proprity program (S on top dial) set the speed to a minimum you want, ex. 1/500, and let the rest of the settings to be automatic. Set Exposure Compensation to _1 0+1 or whatever your mood is, you will be able to change this while shooting, so no worries. Set the Kelvin and the color filter settings for the film recipes and save it to a MR slot of choice.
Now your film simulation was saved in (S) Shutter Priority Mode, with Auto Iso, Auto Apperture, and as soon as you switch to this mode, your camera will set all the parameter to get proper exposure.
That will enable you to just switch between different MR modes and be ready to shoot without adjusting settings in a fast paced environment like street photography let's say.
You can also save it in M Mode (Manual), but that will load up the settings from the moment of saving the recipe, let's say 1/125, iso 100, f5.6, and you need to manually adjust the exposure parameters.
As soon as you switch to another mode, all settings will be reset to the initial settings (from the moment of saving the film simulation), so to change the settings you need to overwrite the MR slot.
But the idea is you only use the film simulation you have saved, not all 10 PP slots. otherwise is just like you said, you still need to change the settings for all 10 manually and it doesn't make sense like that.
I will make a explanation video on this but I am still thinking the script.
If anybody has any other questions please let us know in the comments and i might add the answers in the following video.
I would love to be able to save everything (exposure settings, temperature, color filter settings) to individual picture profile slots, and also be able to rename them just like fuji, but unfortunately we are being limited by what sony is giving us.
Let me know if all this made sense to you, if not I will find a better way of explainning.
Thanks!
Yes. This clarifies my dilemma quite well. And I also knew that this might not be user error but more on Sonys limitations to save and label those Picture Profiles.
Thank you for clarifying the other detail of manual settings. I've mostly been saving the recipes on Aperture priority. Manual settings would indeed give me greater control. Thank you for the response and your best efforts to make my Sony camera a better every day companion. Looking forward to any upcoming updates.
I might have an idea to have more custom profiles at hand when needed. C1, C2 and C3 are saved on camera and can be used for your most used profiles like one general, one portrait and one b&w for example. The other 4 are saved on the SD card. One could keep 4 b&w profiles on a card, 4 portrait profiles on a second card, 4 night profiles on a third card and so on.
dang, maybe I need to see it but I think i'm a little more confused, I'll wait for the video :) I was about to fill up all PP slots.
This specific post has been a great help with accessing quicker. Last question, this is likely my ignornace on using my camera. But 1-2-3 saves in camera. m1-m2-m3-m4 will erase after quick format. How you you make sure to save those if you are utilizing quick format? Thank you.