Just got my A7R6, and am looking for a detailed setup guide, primarily for wildlife photography. I usually concentrate on bird photography, but the camera is going with me on safari in Kenya this October along with my A-1. Mark Galer offers an e-book through Patreon for $10/month. Jan Wegener sells his for $25 (although he has a nice 30 minute video on YouTube that's free. Mark Smith has a 2 hour video course for $247. I love Mark's slow motion videos but $247 seems very high. Although if the information is great it might be worth it. Gary Friedman has a 900+ page book for $35. If anyone has tried any of these options please let me know what you think. I've been using Sony full frame mirrorless for 10 years but even so I find these cameras so complex and feature packed that a professional guide is a must to get the best out of the camera, at least for me.
Colby Brown has some camsets for free. I chose to do 1 month of Mark Galers and grabbed his camsets then modified them for my preferences. I like to compare those two because they do approach things just a bit different so it in my case helps educate me
Len R wrote:
Jan Wegener sells his for $25 (although he has a nice 30 minute video on YouTube that's free.
Len
Honestly Jan's video was all I needed to get my A7RVI setup for BIF photos, the only thing he didn't really cover in depth was setting up a button to act as an AF-S emergency button. And that was easy to figure out with some other easily searchable videos on YouTube.
If you already have an A1 is it possible to just copy over the same settings or are the camera/button/interface vastly different? Just curious because yeah I have an A1 too (I used Mark Smiths A1 set up guide years back, think it was like 30 bucks) and want to get an A7R6 as well (or new 600 6.3 lol doh)
I've been a fan of Mark Galer for some time. Joining his Patreon for $10/month for a couple of months was a good investment. His camset is good but required a fair amount of customization for me to get it to where I wanted. I also looked at the excellent one by Colby Brown. I'd not spend hundreds, your call.
I am mostly a landscape and nature shooter with some family people shots as well. I rarely do wildlife and do not do BIF. Everyone is different.
There's no question that just getting out with the camera and playing around with the settings in the situations you usually shoot will answer most of your questions.
Good luck. It's a fabulous camera. I've using A7R() cameras since the III and this is the best yet. I had actually looked seriously at the Hasselblad X2DII and after a lot of looking and searching, concluded that the Sony A7RVI was a much better choice for me.