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8.2 VIEW MODE

Menu Position MENU  1  View Mode

What it Does Allows you to specify what kinds of files to play back – stills,
movies, or everything

Recommended Setting Date View

With this feature Sony has fixed a long-standing complaint from consumers
since the original A77: previous cameras would ONLY let you view stills,
or .mp4 movies, or AVCHD movies when playing back. You couldn’t just
view things in reverse chronological order like every normal person wanted
to do.

And so finally Sony has added the “Date View” option which lets you do
just that – view things in reverse chronological order.

Under what circumstances would it be better to switch to the other modes
(stills / mp4 / AVCHD)? I can’t think of a scenario.

8.3 IMAGE INDEX

Menu Position MENU  1  Image Index

What it Does Lets you select whether the camera displays 9 or 25 images
when in Index mode

Recommended Setting 9 (so you can sort of see the content of the
thumbnails)

It’s not at all obvious that you can show thumbnails during playback mode
as well as individual pictures. All you have to do press the AEL button
while playing back an individual image and Voilà! Image Index mode. To