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62 Essential Configuration

Toolbox menu 1

Function Setting
Monitor Brightness I prefer “Manual” set to +1. (Otherwise the display
brightness changes a lot outdoors, making it really
hard to evaluate your image quality.) (Section 9.1)
Viewfinder Brightness Same as above but only for the built-in EVF. Again,
I prefer “Manual” set to +1. (Section 9.2)
Finder Color Temp. Lets you add either a hint of blue or yellow to the
EVF to help match it to the LCD. I don’t see a color-
mismatch problem on mine so I keep it to “+/- 0”.
(Section 9.3)
Volume Settings How loud is the volume when you’re playing back
movies? I set mine to “7”. (Section 9.4)
Audio Signals Enables / Disables audio feedback during camera
operation. I prefer my camera to remain as quiet
as possible (“Off”). (Section 9.5)
Upload settings (Eye-Fi This only appears if you have a 3rd party SD card
card only) called “Eye-Fi” inserted. (That’s right – even
though your camera has a Wi-Fi feature built-in,
the legacy code to handle Eye-Fi cards has been
retained!) Enables or disables transmitting of the
Eye-Fi card only. Keep it on unless you’re on an
airplane or you don’t want unnecessary battery
drain. (Section 9.6)

Toolbox menu 2

Function Setting
Tile Menu Do you want to enable one of the last holdouts of
the experimental user interface that graced the
original NEX cameras that experienced users
despised? Then turn this On. (Mine's off.) (Section
9.6)
Mode Dial Guide This enables one-line “help” memory jogs which
you may or may not find very useful. Mine’s set to

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