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9.7 TILE MENU

Menu Position MENU  2  Tile Menu

What it Does Allows you to see what the original NEX camera menus
looked like, and provides a means of turning them off forever

Recommended Setting Off (personal preference)

When the first Sony "NEX" cameras were introduced, they were aimed at a
demographic who had previously used smartphones as their primary
camera. And so Sony decided “Why not make the user interface similar to
that of a smartphone so
users would feel more
comfortable with it?” You
can see an example of it in
Figure 9-2. All it does is
present you with a high-
level screen, asking
“which menu screen do
you want to jump directly
to?” It may or may not
require any fewer button
presses depending on how
far away the menu item
you seek is from where Figure 9-2: You can see two different screens
you were. But if you want when you hit the MENU button, depending upon
to quickly access the menu the setting of the Tile menu function.
you were just using, this
feature adds another layer.