Monitor & Control

Sony Corporation

About this app

'Supported cameras (as of May 2024):
BURANO, FX6 (Ver. 3.00 or later), FX3 (Ver. 4.00 or later), FX30 (Ver. 3.00 or later), α1 (Ver. 2.00 or later), α9 III, α7S III (Ver. 3.00 or later)

Please refer to the support page for the connection process and list of supported cameras:
https://www.sony.net/ccmc/help

Our mobile app for visual content creators enables wireless monitoring, high-precision exposure adjustment, and focus control on the larger screen of your smartphone or tablet

Features of Monitor & Control

Highly flexible shooting style
Use your smartphone or tablet as a wireless second screen for the camera, to set up and control the camera remotely

Precise exposure monitoring*
Your larger smartphone or tablet screen can serve as a waveform monitor, false-colour, histogram and zebra display, supporting more precise exposure adjustments at production
*When using BURANO and FX6, the application must be updated to ver.2.0.0 or later, and the camera body must also be updated to BURANO Ver.1.1 or later, FX6 Ver.5.0 or later

Intuitive focus controls:
Easy access is provided to various focus functions, including touch focus and AF sensitivity adjustment. A control bar on the side of the screen enables intuitive focus setting.

Adjustment of colour settings
Monitor & Control provides control of Picture Profile / Scene file settings, LUT switching, and other operations. Additionally, LUT can be applied in Log shooting so that an image resembling the finished image after post-production can be checked on a larger screen during recording.

Advanced operability delivers ease of use for creators
The frame rate, sensitivity, shutter speed, ND filter*, look, and white balance, which need to be operated frequently during shooting, can be remotely controlled using the monitor of a smartphone or tablet. In addition, the user interface is the same as that of the Sony CineAlta body as represented by VENICE, providing the same operability as the body.
* When using a camera not equipped with an ND filter, the ND filter item will not be displayed and will be left blank.

Multi Camera Monitoring
Up to four cameras can be connected wirelessly to a single iPad, their images displayed and shot, with operations including start/stop recording, and the display of settings list and battery level. Since multi-angle shooting with multiple cameras can be operated from a single device, work that previously required multiple people can now be done by a single person.
* Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.

Operating environment:
Android Ver 11-14

Remarks:
This application is not guaranteed to work on all smartphones and tablets

Ratings and reviews

A step in the right direction. Pretty stable connection and response times. I could see this replacing an external monitor which would be excellent. The only thing I don't like Is having to toggle between two screens to effectively use the touch focus. If you could touch focus from the main screen where all of your settings are this thing would be at home run. They only major thing I could not find and I don't think is included is focus peaking which would be phenomenal.

Very well made and easy to use. It just tends to disconnect if I change between apps. Although, the same happens with every other device control app. It's just a bit unfortunate if you want to control a camera and an audio recorder or lights with the same phone.

My camera is up to date but still it's showing "Cannot connect because the camera or the system software version of the camera is not supported. If the system software version of the camera does not meet the required version, update to the latest version."

What's new

- False colour, waveform monitor, histogram, and zebra exposure monitoring functions now supported on BURANO and FX6
- Improved resolution and delay during monitoring on BURANO and FX6
- BURANO, FX6 improved constraints for monitoring during S&Q, 24p, Interval Rec, and 8K settings
- Focus Map function supported on FX6