You can even shop for and install apps directly with the camera. There are apps that enable you to do sophisticated light painting, high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, time-lapse movies, stop-motion animation, and much more. In this course, Rich Harrington takes you on a tour of the Sony app ecosystem, highlighting some of the best a7 apps and showing how to get the most out of them. The course is geared toward the a7 models, but its basic concepts apply to any Sony Alpha-series camera that is supported by Sony's PlayMemories Camera Apps store.

Topics include:
* Keeping your firmware up to date
* Purchasing and installing apps from PlayMemories Camera Apps
* Using your smartphone as a remote
* Syncing to your smartphone
* Creating time-lapse videos with the a7
* Shooting multiple-exposure images
* Correcting lens distortion
* Creating stop-motion animation
* Stylizing photos in the a7
* Painting with light
* Photographing star trails
* Shooting long exposures
* Bracketing
* Creating light shafts

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