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How to eliminate accidental videos: NEX 7
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douglasf13
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I was thinking about making a little ring around the button with Sugru. Do you think it'll be easy to remove in the future, if Sony has a firmware solution?
Terry
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Vivek
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I shared my solution here a few months ago: http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/sony/36034-taking-care-nex-7-video-nuisance.html
It is simple and effective. Still working quite well.
It is simple and effective. Still working quite well.
Sorry, but this is unnecessary presumption.
The video button is exactly in the place where the thumb of my right hand naturally lies. I hold the camera in my right hand, and operate the right upper wheel all the time with the thumb. Try it out, and you will probably find that your thumb covers the video button then. Since the (otherwise excellent) user interface of the Nex-7 suggests that almost all important buttons and wheels can be operated with the thumb of the right hand, this is about the worst location for the video button.
No button should be placed in the way that any finger covers it almost permanently.
So yes, if you think of that specific Nex-7 issue all the time you may be able to avoid it, but I do not want to do that.
Bottom of the line: Pressing the vid button is hardly clumsyness or lack of talent, it is just what naturally happens when you use the user interface of the camera all the time.
Bernhard
Terry
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People are really tired of your hello kitty sarcasm.
You might not have the same problem being discussed here but given that there are a lot of people on this forum with the issue, almost every review has stated the problem and there are articles written on how to modify the camera this isn't an imaginary problem.
If the topic doesn't interest you or doesn't impact you, state your point and move on.
Cindy Flood
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I like your solution, Robert, because it does not involve permanant damage to the camera. My solution was to lay a tiny washer (with a hole bigger than the button) on top and then putting several rounds of gaffer's tape on top of the washer. I finished it off with a larger piece of gaffer's tape. I can still press the record button if I need to, but it doesn't go on by incidental presses anymore. I must be a real klutz, because mine was always coming on at the most inconvenient times.
No klutziness is required. 
They just put it in a poor location. It should be the flat button that is next to the shutter button (I don't even know what that one is for!)
The Sugru is pretty much invisible in use, this might be useful for vain shooters like hot. But the twin dials are still easily accessible.
They just put it in a poor location. It should be the flat button that is next to the shutter button (I don't even know what that one is for!)The Sugru is pretty much invisible in use, this might be useful for vain shooters like hot.
But the twin dials are still easily accessible.
Obsessed aren't we. I didn't want to waste the black Sugru on a test, as there was only one package of black.
But only hot cares about the color, which isn't even visible when it's doing it's job.
Here is one of my sachtler quick releases. Unfortunately the red release latch makes it entirely unusable.
But only hot cares about the color, which isn't even visible when it's doing it's job.
Here is one of my sachtler quick releases. Unfortunately the red release latch makes it entirely unusable.