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A7 ii shooting Slog2 video and editing in Resolve. Shot footage looks like I expected. Wide flat low contrast dynamic range. I shot at various exposure levels from camera auto to 3 stops over and using Zebras 100+ no clipping. When I open my raw footage in DaVinci Resolve it looks similar to unprocessed footage I have seen before, and just as expected. But when I apply the DaVinci Sony S-Log2 LUT the result is totally blown out. Screen is almost 90% nothing but white. The bottom end of the Parade is like 50 IRE and the top about 6 inches above my monitor! Grading DOES bring it back down and FINAL IMAGE is acceptable, but I know something is weird here. Going on a shoot Monday so please all the input you can give.

Hi all. I've been a forum reader for some time but this is my first post.... I've been a long time Sony mirrorless camera user. Started out with the original NEX5 then got the NEX5n, A6000, A7, A7s and now I have the A6300. I've also shot on many of the others in the range (A7s II, A7r, A7rII). I've owned an FS100, shot on FS700, FS5, F5 and even the F55. So over the years I've got used to the odd Sony quirks. I'm having an issue setting custom white balance. Here are the steps I'm taking and the results I'm getting: I'm in manual mode (as I can't set custom white balance in Movie mode, which I think is a really odd and annoying quirk... but that's a separate issue). I has have a Picture Profile enables (in this case it's the standard PP7 preset with S-Log2). I press the "Fn" button, select "White Balance" and then scroll down to "Custom Setup". I then point the camera to a grey card (I get the same result if I point the camera to a white wall) and I fill the frame with the grey card. I then press the centre button on the function wheel and the camera shutter fires. What I'm then presented with is a green image. The camera reports a "Custom WB Error" with the following values: 3700K A-B: 0 G-M: G7 If I turn Picture Profiles off and I repeat the steps above I get a correct WB reading: 6500K A-B: 0 G-M: M2 If I then go back through all the standard Picture Profiles I find that PP1-PP6 all work fine. I can get a correct WB reading. If I select PP7-PP9 I get and error. It seems that any Profile that is using an S-Log2 or S-Log3Gamma produces the error. So I testing this by changing the Gamma of PP1 to S-Log2. Repeated the steps above and I get the same error. So there appears to be a bug in the current firmware (My camera is reporting Ver. 1.00) that causes a Custom WB Error when using S-Log2 or S-Log3 Gamma. Can anyone else replicate this issue? I don't recall ever having this issue with the A7s. Thanks Adam

Hi there, I just got my A7RII so I'm still figuring out the functions that my previous A7II didn't have. Yesterday I shot a 4K video in APS-C Super 35 mode and S-LOG2 and manual focus. Today when i wanted to shoot a couple pictures I noticed that I had to manually switch back to Full Frame and in order to set a fixed ISO I had to disable PP7 as well. Is there a way to set up the camera so that it automatically switches back to my previous still settings (FF, no PP, fixed ISO)?