>>3893758Menu-system-specific complaints:
a. What's the difference between gear and toolbox? For that matter, most of the things under the camera menu are just as much "settings" as things under the settings menu. The distinction between shooting parameters and other settings seems clearer on other camera brands.
b. Maddeningly inconsistent menu item name style. Some are all uppercase. Some aren't. Some have names abbreviated, some don't.
c. Terrible organization. Why are USB settings on the same page as Date/Time/Language, for instance?
d. Shitty names that you need to google to understand. Like "USB LUN setting", which the manual doesn't even really explain. Or "DMF", which means "Direct Manual Focus" but they shorten it to DMF even though they write out Manual Focus, and what DMF actually means is "Autofocus, but you can override it".
e. There's an entire setting ("tile menu") to make the menu items slightly less convenient to get to. Like, I guess it's a little prettier for a first-time user, but it's not like the pretty tiles explain what each individual menu section is for, so this is totally useless.
f. Things are disabled/enabled based on criteria that are extremely opaque. Like the "Volume Settings" item under the toolbox (?) menu. It's right next to "Audio Signals", which I leave off because I don't like my camera beeping at me, so you'd assume that turning that on would make the volume settings something you can change, right? Nope. The Volume Settings item isn't for the audio signals. It's for video playback. It's only enabled if you have a video on the memory card.
(OR if you HAD a video on the memory card but moved it off of the card without rebuilding the card database. I forgot about that in the other page. Fuckin' sony and their Image DB. As far as I can see, it doesn't actually do anything useful, it just makes life more complicated if you don't use Sony's special software to copy files off of your card)
