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Geoff Harris has a good old rant about the often-bewildering design of camera menus

- Geoff Harris

Two things get my goat about digital photography. First, some camera batteries have a lower life expectancy than a 19th-century Romantic poet on opium, and then there are the dreaded camera menus. The battery problem you can get around with cheaper third-party spares or a grip, but the menus you are often stuck with. Let’s face it, camera menus suck, big time.

The worst offenders in my experience are the company formerly known as Olympus, and Sony, but having recently borrowed a Nikon Z 6II, I also found myself fumbling for key settings on an otherwise great camera. There are just too many choices when you are in a hurry, too many sub-folders, too many esoteric symbols that make Egyptian hieroglyphics seem as easy to understand as a no-smoking sign.