Canon EOS C500 PL, Instruction Manual

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Using the Menus
Using the Menus
In mode, many of the camera’s functions can be adjusted from the menu for general settings, which
opens after pressing the MENU button. You can also register frequently used menu settings in a customized
submenu (My Menu) for easy access. In
mode, press the MENU button to open the menu for general
settings or SET to open the clip menu for clip operations. For details about the available menu options and
settings, refer to
Menu Options
(
A
167).
Selecting an Option from the Menu
The following is a step-by-step explanation of how to select an option from the menu. In the procedures
throughout the rest of this manual, opening and closing the menu is assumed and not included in the procedure.
1 Press the MENU button.
• The menu opens with the orange selection frame indicating the menu item that was selected the previous
time the menu was closed (unless the camera was turned off).
2 Push the joystick up/down or turn the SELECT dial to select the desired submenu.
3 Push the joystick right or press SET.
• The orange selection frame will appear on a menu item in the submenu.
• Press the CANCEL button, push the joystick left, or select [
L
] to return to the previous submenu.
4 Push the joystick up/down or turn the SELECT dial to select the desired menu item.
• If a submenu contains many menu items, a scroll bar will appear on the right side of the submenu indicating
that you must scroll up or down to see other menu items.
• A
Ð
mark next to a menu item indicates another submenu. Repeat steps 3 and 4.
Operating modes:
MENU button
Press to open the menu and then press again to close the menu after
adjusting desired settings.
CANCEL button
Press to return to the previous menu or to stop some operations that are
in progress.
SET button
Note that while only the joystick on the monitor unit is labeled as “SET”,
each joystick will function as the SET button when pressed down.
SELECT dial
Turn the dial to move the orange selection frame up or down in the menu.
Joystick
Push the joystick to move the
orange selection frame in the
menu. Then, press the joystick
itself or the SET button at the
center of the SELECT dial to select
the menu item indicated by the
orange selection frame.
CANCEL
button
MENU button
SET button
Joystick
SELECT dial
MENU button
CANCEL button
COP
Y