Peter, thank you. That did the trick. I guess I'll have to read the manual a bit closer!
I have had the NEX 7 for about 10 days. Today I wanted to throw the little camera bag in the car trunk, just in case I ran inrto a photo-op. It took me about 3-5 minutes to try to re-format the card. The menue of the NEX 7, as my kids would say, "it sucks".
I am not pleased with the NEX 7 "tri-navi dials". I am 75 years old. I have a collection of 35mm film cameras. It was VERY SIMPLE. ONE shutter speed dial on the top of the camera. ONE F stop ring around the lens. Even for "advanced amateurs" (seriously into photography like I am), it was easy. Take an exposure reading with a hand held meter, (later set ISO if the camera had a built in meter), set ONE dial for shutter speed, ONE ring around the lens for aperature, then SHOOT!! If I could buy a digital camera with about 1 shutter speed dial. one F stop ring, one ISO dial----let every thing else be burried in menues I would buy it in a minute. When I read the NEX 7 instructions and saw stuff like "smile shutter" , "face recognition" etc. etc I was appaled. The wanna bees of electronic cameras should have a button, or menue choice I could select, and it would be "Pro-mode"--- EVery thing else would be disabbled. Only things the user would need to set would be the basic stuff: set ISO, set shutter speed, set F stop. Thats all we need. Then allow going into the menues for white balance, meter pattern, continous motor drive, single shot, etc, etc.
Not a new camera, just a firmware update that would alow the dials only to be used for basic settings. BTW I have used just about every kind of film camera.
Dave in NJ