Sony A7V Setup: 5 Settings You Need to Change First

The first 5 Sony A7V settings I change on every new camera — out of the box, no fluff. If you just got your A7V, these are the custom buttons and menu tweaks that transformed how I shoot. In this Sony A7V setup guide, I walk you through my exact workflow for getting a new camera dialed in fast. These aren't generic tips — these are the specific changes I make every single time I unbox an Alpha body. You'll learn which custom buttons actually matter, the menu settings most people miss. CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:31 Setting #1 - Customizing Physical Buttons 04:32 Setting #2 - My Menu Settings 06:18 Setting #3 - Don't Skip This One - Memory Recall 08:30 Setting #4 - Display Rotation 09:10 Setting #5 - Sony Creative Look and DRO 09:56 Bonus tip 10:31 Final thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 GEAR AND SOFTWARE I USE & RECOMMEND (all affiliate links) CAMERAS & LENSES My Sony A7V → https://amzn.to/4bBFNuW By backup camera → https://amzn.to/4aNQWIN Favorite Sony lens → https://amzn.to/3TbuO53 Favorite Portrait Lens → https://amzn.to/4wvbmPa My Wide Standard Zoom → https://amzn.to/4yd9egL My Favorite Macro lens → https://amzn.to/4pcYzyt My Favorite Budget Telezoom → https://amzn.to/4gwY28f LIGHTING Key light → https://amzn.to/4f6Qdnf Rim and Decorative light → https://amzn.to/4h5u8rU FILTERS & ACCESSORIES Favorite Chest Strap → https://amzn.to/4vriTxw Favorite Magnetic VND → https://amzn.to/3SIVBpr Favorite Magnetic Mist filter → https://amzn.to/4wtGLBw SOFTWARE I USE (Affiliate links) Luminar Neo (create the mist filter look without the filter) → https://skylum.evyy.net/c/7125786/114... VidIQ - Grow faster on youtube - https://vidiq.com/rubenropstad Epidemic Sound - Where I get my music - https://share.epidemicsound.com/4ammhu Using these links costs you nothing extra but supports the channel — thank you! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 FOLLOW ME Instagram →   / rubenropstad   Website → https://www.rubenropstad.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ Got a Sony A7V question? Drop it in the comments — I read every one. #SonyA7V #SonyA7VSettings #SonyAlpha #SonyCameraSetup #Photography #Videography #CinematicPhotography #SonyTutorial #A7VSetup #FilmLook #sonycreativelook