Leica L-E, Instructions Manual

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The Monitor / 117
MONITOR
The Leica M9 has a large 2.5” liquid crystal color
monitor (1.32). This is used for viewing pictures that
have been saved on the memory card and reproduces
the entire field of the picture plus the selected data
and information (see “The displays/In the monitor”,
p. 99/100, and the subsequent sections.
on the Leica M9­P version, the monitor is protected
by an exceptionally hard, and therefore scratch­
resistant, sapphire glass cover.
Note:
A monitor screen is only available in review mode (see
p. 150) and must be activated with the
PLAY button
(1.26), or it is automatically displayed when the Auto
review
function (see p. 113) is active.
with the default setting, only the following information
is displayed (i.e. if additional information has not been
selected using the
INFO
button (1.22, see p. 99)):
1. only the shutter speed (3.2.2), ISo sensitivity
(3.2.3) and the picture number/total number of
pictures available (3.2.4) in the header line,
2. the protection symbol (3.2.1, ) for deletion­
protect pictures (see p. 154),
3. for enlarged pictures or review shifted from the
center, an additional symbol (3.2.5, ), in the bot­
tom right to indicate the approximate position and
size of the section,
4. for reduced review of 4 or 9 pictures, a red frame
indicating the selected picture (3.2.6).
Setting the brightness
The brightness of the monitor picture can be adjusted
to five different levels using the menu control, so that
you can select the optimum brightness for any situation,
i.e. the ambient lighting conditions.
Setting the function
1. In the main menu (see p. 102/119), select
Monitor
brightness (4.1.11), and
2. select the desired level (
low, medium high,
standard, medium high, high
) in the sub­menu.
DISPLAyINg BASIC SeTTINgS/
DATA IN PICTURe MODe
when the camera is in picture mode, you can press
the
INFO button (1.22) to display the battery and
memory card capacities, as well as certain basic
picture settings (see p. 99).
DISPLAyINg PICTURe DATA IN ReVIew MODe
when the camera is in review mode, you can press
the
INFO button (1.22) to display a range of additional
picture data (see p. 100), along with a reduced picture
size.
You can also use the menu (
Histogram
, 5.1.9, see
p. 102/119) to select different variations of the histo-
gram (see next section).