Alpha 55 display query

[daleshillrover]

Viceroy

Bingo. You solved the mystery. I will give it a test.
It seems strange that it replaces the histogram. Looking at it I think the histogram is far more useful. Anyway, at least I can find it now.
Thanks
Christine

[Greg Beetham]

It sounds like you solved the mystery agorabasta that’s good. I went looking in the A55 User Guide to see if there was any mention of how to set the scale/histogram in the menus and this is the closest I could find; (below) only thing is, it doesn’t explain about the display behaviour of the histogram vs. scale, it does mention pressing the [disp] button though so I guess you would need the camera for it all to be revealed…along with the required amount of dogged persistence and determination.
One interesting thing I did discover about the A55 in the User Guide (it’s not totally useless), is that you can do P/shift after all via the AEL button and the front control dial, I thought the camera was accused of not having that feature, or was that a different Alpha model.
Greg

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[agorabasta]

One interesting thing I did discover about the A55 in the User Guide (it’s not totally useless), is that you can do P/shift after all via the AEL button and the front control dial, I thought the camera was accused of not having that feature, or was that a different Alpha model.

Alas, Greg, it doesn't mean that 'Guide' is not useless; it only means that it is outright deceiving.
There's no P-shift through that trick or through any other one for that matter...

[Greg Beetham]

Ah you’re correct again agorabasta, I was reading the passage on the bottom of page78 and thought it applied globally, but it is only for M mode it seems, although I’m not clear on the exact procedure that one employs to ‘select’ aperture and shutter speed in M mode. Maybe they are ‘selected’ by the action of pressing the AEL button, but I’m not sure.
Greg

[daleshillrover]

The a55 guide itself might not be totally useless but it's index is utterly useless.