Shooting stills during video recording A7s

[jasonmo]

I was watching Philip Bloom's Sony A7S seminar at B&H on YouTube and in the first five minutes he is raving about being able to shoot still images while recording video in Manual Mode with Silent Shutter turned off.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeX-eZXaRtw

 

I cannot seem to do this on my A7S. I'm using a metabones adaptor and a Nikon manual focus lens, shooting AVCHD 24p, in Manual Mode with Silent Shutter off. When I depress the shutter release button while recording video, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong or was Philip Bloom mistaken?

[LiveShots]

You cannot use the shutter when recording a movie as the shutter has to be wide open to record the video. If it does not work with electronic shutter then it won’t work at all.

[DanArt]

So my edited response.

The SONY A7 series have an "Always" mode in video. However the video will literally halt when that shot is being taken. I assume not every camera model supports this mode.

Otherwise this feature is not presented because of the mode settings. Maybe it is a JPEG thing ( for which I would assume would be sharing the video output ( as with dual recording ). Meaning It would be processing in silent-shooting mode.

About sponsers ( the video you shown us )

1. There is a "hold harmless" statement in the start of the video holding B&H / Andorama not responsible for any misinformation shown in the video. Meaning somebody at B&H knows it is a sponsor marketing a product. Meaning they might be using an altered product or R&D model. if you buy a camera from B&H because of this video and it shows something not featured they will be held harmless for your loss of income/funds

2. Most sponsors are snake-oil and you should read between the lines of who they are selling to. What is occurring.in their presentation and they kind of person they are.targeting. A lot of times it is peoples retirement funds. When I am grey and not going to be investing in any photography equipment at all unless they could show me how I could market income.

3. That being said the mode "Photo while Video" is probably in the camera somewhere but was remove
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4. That being the A7S there could be a chance the mode exist or previously existed being directed towards video