Originally posted by Class A That's the one point regarding the menu system. I think that it would be a good option (i.e., have a quickly accessible tick box that controls whether you see all of a menu or just a user-defined subset of it).
Do Canikon offer this feature?
That falls under the "customisation" category for me and there can hardly be too much of that. Yes, many options can complicate the settings considerably but then if you don't bother you don't need to deal with these parts. A happy user will find the camera simple and a demanding user will find it customisable.
Yup! You can build your own customized menu. With my Nikon, I would hide all the features that I don't access often, if at all. Things that you usually set only once. That way, things become faster to access and the whole menu becomes tidier/less cluttered.
You can even re-arrange the menu items to your liking! You can put your most used menu items up top.
Originally posted by Class A What "middle button"? The "OK" button? What inconsistency are you referring to?
Oh yeah sorry, I meant the OK button
Hmm I'll try to explain it the best way I can. When you are in the menu, and you want to change the Color Space (for example), you scroll down to highlight the right menu item with the directional arrows (up, down, left, right). Once you highlight it, one would have to press the -> (right) button to enter it. You can't use the OK button to enter that selection, if you do, you exit the menu. That's one thing that bugged me at first, I believe once you highlight the menu item you want, pressing OK means you want to enter that item. To exit the menu should be left to the MENU button.
Once you get into that submenu, and you choose Adobe RGB (for example), if you press OK you set the item but you leave the whole menu altogether. To just select the highlighted item and return to the previous menu, you have to press the <- (left) button.
It makes sense that you can use the left and right arrows to enter and go back submenus, yes. However, pressing OK should not let you leave the overall menu, but enter what you are highlighting. The two concepts can co-exist in the same interface.
Just like computers and everything. You highlight a button, you press ENTER to click it or enter it. Same goes for cellphones, you highlight a menu item and press the middle button of the directional arrow pad.
It's a very small detail, really. One that can easily be learned. The existing interface is already good BUT can be improved and be really polished