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96 Quick Guide for the Impatient User

3.11 THE “C” BUTTON

The “C” button is just a reassignable button. In the factory-default
configuration, pressing the “C” button while in a menu (or a Function
menu) will give you a 1-sentence memory jog of what that function does.
When you’re not in any particular menu or function menu, pressing this
button does nothing in the default configuration. Since the 1-sentence (if
that) descriptions leave much to be desired, and since this button does
NOTHING most of the time, I have chosen to reassign the “C” button to
something more useful. I assigned it to “Quality”, which helps me switch
between “RAW+JPG” and “X.FINE” very rapidly.
(You can assign other things to the “C” button also, via MENU  6 
Custom Key Settings  C button  [Choose something]. I talk about
all the different options in Section 6.31.)

3.12 LENSES
Let me start by clearing up some
confusion. When Sony bought
Minolta, they inherited the Minolta
lens mount, which has now come to
be known as the “A-Mount”. Then
Sony came out with a whole new
camera design called the NEX,
which used a different lens mount.
This NEX mount is now commonly
referred to as the “E-mount”.
Figure 3-20: The Sensor Plane
Sony has since decided to drop the Marker (yellow rectangle above)
name “NEX” altogether and refer to shows you where the sensor is for
BOTH of these incompatible lens the technical applications where
mounts as “Alpha mount”, exact sensor-to-subject distance is
confusing pretty much everyone. So crucial.
when you’re out looking for a new
or used lens for your camera, make sure you get one specifically earmarked
for the A-mount.

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