Comments on: Sony A77 buttons https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/ Intrigued by photography Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:44:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Yves Roumazeilles https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5230 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:44:49 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5230 Your guess may be right but… Sony already stated that they were moving from this SSS button. They believe that it is not needed by the users (I tend to agree with them but that’s beyond the point).

Furthermore, a single round push button is quite different from what Sony users have seen in the past (a sliding button).

Still sticking to it?

]]> By: Falcon75 https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5229 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:59:17 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5229 Sounds nice… but… You forgot one important thing….

Where’s the SuperSteadyShot button?

My guess is that the one you refer as the Fn Button is actually the SSS button (on/off).
Then… the one you refer as the “Menu” will probably be the Fn button….
Finally… the button on the left side of the screen, that you didn’t mentioned, is the Menu button!

]]> By: Yves Roumazeilles https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5224 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:34:24 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5224 Kudos OldClicker! We did not see it, and it’s pretty sure that this additional button on the left of the viewfinder would be the “Menu” button (like on the A55). Now, this leaves one button unmarked on the right of the display.

Any idea?

]]> By: OldClicker https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5223 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:39:45 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5223 They missed a button on the back to the left of the viewfinder.

]]> By: Yves Roumazeilles https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5195 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:25:18 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5195 Shibs,
Yes. Sony had said previously that the SSS button would no longer appear on most (if not all) of its cameras. Assuredly, this is not the most important button (or the button most important for most people). Could be generating some complaints, but these are already acceptable by Sony.

]]> By: Shibs https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5194 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:26:59 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5194 So where is the switch for SSS? Image Stabilization on/off only through the menu?

]]> By: Yves Roumazeilles https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5186 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:18:38 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5186 Not much smaller than on any other Sony SLR camera. But it may even be an optical illusion from them being inserted into transparent plastic.

]]> By: Ali https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5185 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:17:17 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5185 Aren’t the buttons on the top a bit small?

]]> By: Dan https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5179 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:03:57 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5179 Forget the EVF question. I just noticed the LCD/EVF switch.

Dan.

]]> By: Dan https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5178 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:02:24 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5178 It looks like an interesting camera with PROPER manual controls. The only thing I don’t understand is the top LCD. If the back LCD and EVF provide adequate data, what’s the top LCD for?

Hmmm… I’m assuming that it has an EVF. Is that correct?

Thanks,

Dan.

]]> By: Yves Roumazeilles https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5156 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:16:48 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5156 Thomas, the Sony A77 is definitely a camera for more than the entry-level photographer. These people (it appears that most YLovePhoto readers are such experts or enthusiasts) want performance, efficiency and ease-of-use at the time of shooting the picture.

Buttons are definitely needed for us. And Sony understood this part of the specification.

However, there is still a significant possibility that Sony is presenting here a prototype, a mock-up or anything that is not exactly identical to the final form of the Sony Alpha SLT-A77. We will only know when we go from the marketing buzz to actual pictures or actual cameras.

]]> By: Thomas https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5155 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:04:29 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5155 Thanks for sharing these images. I’m happy to see dedicated buttons instead of the crappy combined navigator/iso/flash/every-thing-important-in-this-crappy-location solution

]]> By: Ali https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5132 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:44:15 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5132 the microphone looks like a stereo. good location.

]]> By: Yves Roumazeilles https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5131 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:39:05 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5131 Xavier,
You are definitely right and, being the sloppy translator of the text, I have to apologize for this.

]]> By: Xavierdjx https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/21/sony-a77-buttons/#comment-5126 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:42:56 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9603#comment-5126 On the first picture, it’s not a ” top lcd – on/off ” but surely a ” top lcd backlit – on/off “

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