When the Sony Alpha A700 is connected to
a television, the Remote Commander can
control the playback of the images stored
on the camera. The Remote Commander
has a Slide show playback mode that is not
available when using the camera to control
the playback.
Using the Remote Commander
to play back the images is cov-
ered in detail in Chapter 7.
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Histogram. This displays the his-
togram and the recording data of
the displayed image the same way
that the Histogram button on the
back of the camera does. When
the Histogram button is pressed, it
displays the histogram and shoot-
ing data of the displayed image.
Pressing the button a second time
returns to the previous view.
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Display. This button cycles among
three views: the image alone, the
image with an information overlay,
and the image with some details
overlaid and a thumbnail strip on
the top of the display.
✦
Index. The index opens a thumbnail
view of the images and can be navi-
gated using the navigation buttons.
✦
Rotate. The Rotate button opens a
choice to rotate either left or right
using the navigation buttons.
✦
Playback. This button switches
between playing back the images
and showing the camera settings
screen.
✦
Menu. When in Playback mode,
this opens the camera menus, and
they can be set using the naviga-
tion buttons.
✦
Slide show. The Slide show button
starts a slide show of the images.
Pressing it a second time stops the
slide show.
✦
Scale up/down. These two but-
tons let you zoom in and out of
the photo. The navigation buttons
let you move around in the
zoomed view.
✦
Delete. The Delete button opens
the delete photo option. The navi-
gation buttons are used to make a
selection.
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Navigation buttons. These naviga-
tion buttons take the place of the
multi-selector on the back of the
camera. The four direction buttons
and the center button act to move
between photos, move between
selections, and make choices.
✦
Print. If you connect the camera to
a HDTV using the HDMI cable and
you connect the camera to a printer
using the USB port on the camera,
this button lets you print while view-
ing the images on the television.
This only works when connected to
a HDTV because connecting to a
regular television requires the USB
port on the camera.
Chapter 1
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