Digital Imaging Solutions for Volume Photography

Improve your volume photography productivity with Sony Custom Grid Line and Sony Camera Remote SDK

Elevate your volume photography with the full-frame Alpha cameras. Sony supports and listens closely to photographers to realize new imaging experiences together, and leads the world in imaging with its cutting-edge camera and lens technologies. Now available with Custom Grid Line for accurate and repeatable composition, the Alpha cameras are an ideal choice for volume photographic work.​

Benefits of Sony Digital Imaging Solutions for Volume Photography
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Volume Photography: More efficiency and Consistency

Capture and preserve your clients’ memorable moments with a well-designed set for maximum consistency. For complete accuracy, Sony Custom Grid Line aligns your portrait subjects in every shot. They’re ideal for all types of volume photography, including school and sports events, corporate headshots, and even theme park and cruise ship experience. Make your volume photography easier, better and more consistent, with high-quality results in every shot.​

Get in touch with our expert team to discover how you can apply the Sony Camera Remote SDK with Custom Grid Line to your photography business.

Custom Grid Line: Enhancing Shooting Experience

Choose Custom Grid Line to achieve outstanding precision and repeatability in your volume photography compositions. Effortlessly position up to 4 grid lines and even select alternative colours to maximise visibility against the background of the shot. After the shoot, review with overlaid grid lines, accessible through the electronic viewfinder (EVF) or the camera’s LCD screen. ​Delivered as PNG files, the grid lines can feature characters, logos, and other graphic elements, ensuring a comprehensive visual representation. After shooting, grid lines can also be superimposed on the captured video. Grid lines can also be superimposed on HDMI out, making it very beneficial for tethering and photographer education applications.​

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Schools: Capturing Memories Efficiently

Optimise your school volume photography sessions with Custom Grid Line to create precise image compositions. Achieve a level of consistency that will streamline large-scale volume photography, significantly simplifying the process ​while delivering outstanding images. Save time and achieve more accurate framing with Custom Grid Line in your school photography.​

Theme Parks: More Efficient and Effective Photoshoot

Now you can get an exceptional preview of how images will look after compositing into computer graphics. As PNG files, the grid lines can contain characters, logos, and other graphic elements. With the integration of Camera Remote SDK, a bespoke application can trigger shots based on external system, allowing for an efficient and effective photoshoot. Capture people’s faces during a theme park ride with accurate timing and composition.

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Sports Events: Team Photos

Shooting with complete accuracy and repeatability is essential in a busy sports setting. Sony Custom Grid Line makes setting up shots and capturing them consistently easy. Apply one set of grid lines for full team photos and another for individual player shots or create grid lines for specific sports in order to capture the moment more accurately.​

Cruise Photography: Portraits in Exotic Locations

Boost productivity in cruise ships and anniversary shoots.​ Frame portraits consistently, regardless of the volume of photographs,​ the combination of grid lines, Face AF, and Eye AF makes it easy to line up the standard family and couple photos.​

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Customer Stories

Inter-State Studio uses Sony’s Custom Grid Line to get the perfect shot

Inter-State Studio specializes in school photography and yearbook publishing. With 500-700 photographers working daily, they needed a reliable way to produce consistent images. Sony’s Custom Grid Line solution enables seamless switching between studio portraits, sports, and group photos on the same camera, allowing photographers to focus on connecting with their subjects.

Sony's Custom Grid Line Boosts Strawbridge Studios' Photo Consistency

Strawbridge Studios is a school photography company that creates memories for the families they serve. During peak season, their photographers are shooting 150,000 students a day across the country. Using Sony’s Custom Grid Line solution enables them to get consistent images, no matter where their photographers are. See how Sony’s Custom Grid Line License has helped them easily create more uniformity.

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