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Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu
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Brightness
Choose from five settings for monitor brightness. The default setting is
3
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Date Imprint
Date and time of recording can be imprinted on pictures. This information can be
printed even from printers that do not support printing of date and time (
102).
The setting for Date Imprint can be viewed on the monitor while shooting (nothing
will be displayed when set to
Off
) (
8).
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Date Imprint
•
Imprinted dates form a permanent part of image data and cannot be deleted.
•
Dates imprinted at an
Image size
126) setting of
K
640×480
may be difficult to read. Choose
J
1024×768
or larger when using date imprint.
•
The date is recorded using the format selected in the setup menu’s
Date
item (
20, 162).
•
Dates cannot be imprinted in the following situations (
191).
- When
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Sports
,
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Museum
or
p
Panorama assist
is selected in scene mode
- When
Continuous
,
BSS
or
Continuous flash
is selected for
Continuous
- When modes other than
Off
is selected for
Auto bracketing
(
- Movie mode
- When
NRW (RAW)
,
NRW (RAW) + Fine
,
NRW (RAW) + Normal
or
NRW (RAW) + Basic
is
selected for
Image quality
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Date Imprint and Print Set
When printing from DPOF-compatible printers which support printing of shooting date and photo
information, the date and information can be printed on pictures without date and time imprinted
on
Date imprint
, using options in the
Print set
menu (
101).
Off (default setting)
Date and time are not imprinted on pictures.
Date
Date is imprinted on the bottom right corner of pictures shot while this option is in
effect.
Date and time
Date and Time are imprinted on the bottom right corner of pictures shot while this
option is in effect.
Date counter
An useful function for tracking the growth of a child, growth diary of a plant or other
similar situations (
166).