The following are recommended settings for using a Sony camera with the CamRanger 2. Not all camera models will necessarily have all of these settings.
Quick Connection Setup
- SD Card: An SD card is required in the CamRanger 2 when using a Sony camera. Any card with write speeds of at least 50 MBps should perform the same.
- USB Connection Mode: Camera setting that should be set to either PC Remote or Remote Shooting depending on the camera.
If you continue to have problems connecting, please check out camera connection troubleshooting page.
Help Finding Setting Locations
Sony is particularly notorious for changing settings. For help in finding settings, please refer to Sony’s searchable online manuals: https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/cameras-camcorders-digital-cameras/manuals
More Detailed Settings
- USB Power Supply: Camera setting that controls if the camera should charge from the USB port. Generally, this should be turned off as it will drastically reduce the CamRanger’s battery life.
- WiFi/Network Settings: All WiFi and network related settings should be disabled. This includes the “Control with Smartphone” setting if present.
- PC Remote Settings: Camera setting that controls where images should be saved. It is recommended to the set the Still Image Save Destination to PC+Camera. Images will be saved to the camera’s memory and sent to the CamRanger. The recommend RAW+JPG PC Save Image setting depends on the photographers workflow. For quick previews, this should be set to JPEG only and the image format should be set to RAW+JPG.
- Exposure Step: Camera setting that controls the step size between exposure values. Only 0.3EV is supported for changing shutter speed and ISO for some Sony cameras.
- Live View Display: Camera setting that controls if the live view exposure should match the camera’s exposure settings, or always show a reasonably exposed image. Typically a photographer would want this set to “Setting Effect OFF” when the ambient light doesn’t match the amount of light during capture, such as when using strobes or flashes.
- Auto Review: Camera setting that controls how long an image is previewed on the camera’s rear LCD. Turning this off can improve the speed of some CamRanger functions.
- AF w/ shutter: Sets if the camera should focus when the shutter is pressed. This must be turned on for touch focus to work.
- Long Exposure Noise Reduction: Camera setting that enables automatically taking a “dark frame subtraction” shot after captures of longer than 1″. Not supported for intervalometer sequences and may also cause problems during HDR and focus stack sequences.
- Focus Mode: Touch focus is only compatible with select focus modes.
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