My settings for the Sony A7iii
Added 2025-01-31 17:21:10 +0000 UTC
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Hahah hello! Super happy to see you working your way through the backlog - I didn't make these for nothing! :D That's something I've always disliked with Log - the exposure is a little tricky. What makes HLG3 so good in my opinion is that I can just expose normally. So I just get a balanced exposure and only in some particular cases when I'm going for a brighter look and needing extra shadow details will I overexpose a little. But usually I just go with a balanced exposure and that has worked wonderfully. :)
T
2025-11-13 09:49:11 +0000 UTCHey Teo, back here again. Thanks for the settings! Do you overexpose when shooting HLG3? Since that is the recommendation for SLOG2, I wonder if that's something you do too to maintain detail in the shadows - if even needed for HLG. Thanks!
Danny Janssen
2025-11-12 18:08:16 +0000 UTCHi! Yes, I just copied my setting onto the A7IV. I have been playing around with Slog 3 occasionally to make sure I'm not missing out haha. And overall I'd even say Slog 3 is actually the better picture profile, but it's harder to get right when shooting and colour grading. It's perfect for productions in which you can really take your time, but for my faster paced shooting style HLG 3 is the perfect balance. It's about 80%-90% as good, while being much easier to use, so I'm sticking to HLG 3. :)
T
2025-09-22 06:06:38 +0000 UTCHi Teo hope you're well! Just discovered and really enjoying your content both here and on youtube. I was wondering do you also shoot HLG3 with the sony a7iv now and are these settings still the same? I have been using Slog3 up until now and found it a hit or a miss and your colour grading looks incredible so i'll be making the switch to HLG3.
MMA King
2025-09-20 23:55:27 +0000 UTCHi Leanne! HLG3 and rec709 are colour spaces and so they're generally not changed with a Lut but with a simple colour space transform. So in Premiere there's a setting with which I sort of tell Premiere "Hey, please display this in Rec709!" and then it looks normal. I haven't used DaVinci Resolve so I don't exactly know how this works, but I believe to have heard in tutorials that there's a colour space transform function so maybe if you simply look for that on YouTube you'll find a tutorial to see exactly how it works. :)
T
2025-08-02 14:55:43 +0000 UTCHi Teo, where can I find a conversion lut from HLG3 to rec709. I'm using Davinci Resolve to edit
Leanne Joy Narciso
2025-08-02 01:52:38 +0000 UTCHi Julia, ohh lovely! Cool that you're getting started in video! :D While I've never used the Sony A7R, I'm guessing it's fairly similar to the A7III? In the tutorial at around 02:35 I begin explaining the settings you need to use (in my case HLG 3 & Rec.709). To get to these settings you just need to look for the "Picture Profiles" setting in your menu. I noticed that I didn't specifically show the location within the menu to find these, my apologies! In the menu you need to go to page 12/14 of the image settings - the title at the top says "Color/WB/Img. Processing", so that means you can find the settings for those things here. At the bottom is the setting called "Picture Profile". Just click that and you'll see the same as in the tutorial from around 02:35. Please keep in mind that it's page 12/14 on my camera and I'm not sure whether it's at the exact same spot on the A7R. But it should be similar, because you should simply find it in the place where you can find anything related to the look of your images. Does this help?
T
2025-03-18 07:51:05 +0000 UTChi teo thank you for making this video! i've been doing photo on my a7r for years but just starting video...so question: i understood the gamma assist perfectly, but how do i put it in HLG in the first place? if by any chance you don't mind answering, id really appreciate it (i find you waaaay more helpfull 10out of 10 times than random utube tutorials) much love
Julia Juncadella
2025-03-17 18:38:54 +0000 UTCCool, happy to hear that! Ohh, alright, I’ll add that to my notes, thanks for the idea!🙌
T
2025-02-03 15:20:25 +0000 UTCI loved the video it was very clear and helpful. I think a video like photography behind the scenes but for video would be really cool, “videography behind the scenes” if you will
Dean501st
2025-02-03 14:22:35 +0000 UTCHahaha :,D (need to look up that reference though) Ohh oops, I must have mis-communicated that - I only use the APS-C mode for video, because you can use it without any loss in resolution, even when shooting in 4K, unlike with photographs. With photos there of course will be a loss in resolution. And yes, simply cropping in post would therefore make sense.
T
2025-01-31 20:24:33 +0000 UTCThough I don't have a Sony camera, I enjoyed the video--but then, I'd enjoy hearing Teo read the telephone book (a reference many of you will have to look up). But Teo's choice sometimes to shoot photos using only part of the sensor (APS-C mode) surprises me. Why not shoot full frame and crop in post-processing? It would allow more flexibility in the final photo plus eliminate one thing to think about and execute while shooting.
RobC
2025-01-31 20:15:21 +0000 UTC
