cross Japan with only a tiny water

cross Japan with only a tiny water Now, Sony has completely redesigned the menus, and cleverly, too; the camera uses “soft keys,” like on a cellphone — two buttons beside the screen whose functions change along with the on-screen labels. But this is the iPhone school of menu design: easy to learn, inefficient to navigate.

Most painfully, there’s no physical mode dial. To switch from Auto mode to a scene mode (like Panorama or Macro), you call up an on-screen dial — that’s up to six button presses. Adjust the light sensitivity? Six presses plus a dial turn. Switch to manual focus? Eleven presses. It gets old fast.

Similarly, in playback mode, you can’t view photos and videos together. Switching takes six button presses. Also, Sony is inventing a whole new camera/lens format here — and Sony doesn’t have a great track record with new formats. Remember Betamax? Memory Stick? Atrac? (Me neither.)

Sony says that it had no choice. No existing lenses have built-in stabilization, a completely silent motor (to honor your video soundtrack), and autofocus even during filming.

The hybrid camera market is still young. Micro Four Thirds is still a baby standard (only two companies), Samsung still has just one camera. Sony’s hybrid is generally superior to both.

And now, back to the parable: In the end, the boy began to cross Japan with only a tiny water flask on his back.

The master was aghast. “But you will die of thirst, my son!”

The boy smiled as he continued walking. “I’m not too worried about itTarps, old man. Technology has a way of making all things possible.”