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Has anyone found a remote control (wireless) that will let you press buttons like AF/MF or any of the other user selectable buttons on the camera? The ones I have found will only let you start stop video recording, press the shutter release button or zoom. Even the wifi remote does not seem to be able to do this. Is it possible that there is code for it that can be used from a programmable remote?

 

For me this would be very useful for gimbal and steadicam work to lock focus without touching camera. 

 

 

 

 

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Has anyone found a remote control (wireless) that will let you press buttons like AF/MF or any of the other user selectable buttons on the camera? The ones I have found will only let you start stop video recording, press the shutter release button or zoom. Even the wifi remote does not seem to be able to do this. Is it possible that there is code for it that can be used from a programmable remote?

 

For me this would be very useful for gimbal and steadicam work to lock focus without touching camera.

 

The stock remote control app is very basic. You may need to download the free recent version through Play Memories

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Thanks :-) Didn't know there were more than one version of it. Have forgotten about the whole "app store" thing. The one I tried was very limited. But will look for the other version and see what it can do. It might help me out. But would have loved to be able to just use a small simple remote with physical buttons you could put anywhere on the rig (like the ones they have for shutter release). I think there is one that has the directional buttons on it but they can only be used during playback. If Sony would let you use them during recording you could just have put any function that you wanted to remote control to one of the directions and have full remote control.   

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