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Menu options of the Sony a7

Menu options of the Sony a7

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Menu options of the Sony a7

I always judge how easy it is to use a camera by trying to learn its menu system, cause that's really where you unlock the power. And you know, you've got companies like Canon that take a really streamlined approach, which is, oh, you know, one page, you can't scroll off the page, you can keep navigating to the next tab. You got Nikon that goes really deep with nested menus. And of course, the other people sort of fall in between. My take on Sony through the years, at least with their video cameras, is that they have a lot of choices in the menus. And it's not abnormal to need to, like, draw a map out. Because you get four levels deep into the menu. >> I wouldn't say it's that bad. >> All right. >> This, this time around, actually I think when you look at it, Sony has taken, I think, especially from Canon, a very, you know. Direct sort of homage, if you will, to the. >> Right. >> To the Canon menu system. It's still deep, it might not be quite as nice and quite as sort of streamlined…

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