Figure 11-11: You can see how many stills and how many more movie minutes you can store using the current settings.
Recommended Setting n/a
Menu Position MENU --> 6 --> Recover Image DB
What it Does This function tries to recover the internal database required for AVCHD and XAVC S movies should it ever become corrupted
Recommended Setting n/a
It’s not at all clear why there should be any sort of database needed on a memory card. But here’s what I know: 1) AVCHD movies seem to require it, and 2) when you copy images that weren’t taken with the camera onto the memory card, then try to play them back in-camera, you will often get the error message “Can’t display this picture”. When that happens, invoking the Recover Image DB function often makes the error go away.
Menu Position MENU --> 6 --> Display Media Info
What it Does Shows you how much free memory is left on your card
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Figure 11-11: You can see how many stills and how many more movie minutes you can store using the current settings. Recommended Setting n/a |
It’s a friendly screen which shows you approximately how many still images and how many minutes of movies the card will hold, calculated using the current image quality and movie format settings.
The number of still images remaining is the same number that is shown to you in the standard data display, and as such suffers from the same inaccuracies (as originally described in Section 3.10).
Menu Position MENU --> 7 --> Version
What it Does Lets you know what version your camera’s (and lens’) Firmware contains
Recommended Setting n/a
Not sure what firmware version your camera has loaded? Then this feature is for you. As of this writing the most recent version of the firmware is v1.0. If there’s an upgrade you’ll find it here: http://bit.ly/1Sxlcpf
Menu Position MENU --> 7 --> Setting Reset
What it Does Resets some or all of the camera’s settings
Recommended Setting If you’re going to use it, just use ‘Initialize'
When things go wrong; when you don’t know what variable you changed and you just want to reset everything back to factory defaults, this feature can be a lifesaver. Sony gives you two different choices:
Camera Settings Reset: Resets all settings in the Camera 
menus only. Fn customizations are untouched, as are the apps that you’ve downloaded.
Initialize: Resets everything EXCEPT for the Wi-Fi settings (memorization of hot spots and passwords, for example) and AF MicroAdjust values (Section 7.30). Your installed apps disappear too!