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Chapter 1 – Camera Setup and Control Reference
Finally, let’s consider each of the camera’s two levers and what they do.
Levers
Lever: This Lever is designed to give the camera more than one basic way of
doing things. You can configure some of the camera’s functions to work one
way when the Lever is set to position 1 and another way when the Lever is set
to position 2. This is a programmable lever, with specific functionality, as de-
scribed on page 316.
On/Off lever: This non-programmable lever has only one purpose: turning
the camera on and off. If left in the On position, the camera will turn itself off
after a specific period of time, which you can set with the
Custom Menu > D.
Disp/[Sound]PC > Auto Power Off
function, as described on page 360. If the
camera has shut down while the lever is in the On position, you will have to move the lever
to the Off position and then back to On to bring the camera back to life.
Unusual Icons in Menu Names
Olympus uses unusual icons in some of its camera menus, in some cases making it hard to
understand exactly what a menu selection means. For instance, in figure 1.6 you can see an
icon that represents image quality at the point of the arrows in images 1 and 2.
Figure 1.6
: Unusual icons in menu names
You will see several icons of this type spread throughout the camera’s menu system. Some
will be intuitive and others not. Because I do not have access to the Olympus icons, I have
substituted words where an icon is used.
For example, the icon that represents the camera’s image quality (figure 1.6) is called
Record Mode by the Olympus user’s manual. (In the Olympus user’s manual, you may also
encounter the term SET used for this icon, which is functionally a synonym for Record
Mode.) Therefore, when I refer to the image quality menu in this book I will use the words
Record Mode in brackets, like this: [Record Mode].
