Camera Menus
Changes to some settings can be made with the help of menus
that appear in the LCD monitor. Separate menus are available
for each operating mode:
LCD Monitor
27
30
28
WB-L
AE-L
P
1/60 F2.7
FINE
FINE
VGA
GA
NO
NOV
[
10
]
BSS
X2.0
ISO
ISO
+0.7
31
22
24
20
15
11
9
1
2
3
5
4
6
7
8
10
12
13
14
16
17
18
19
21
23
25
26
29
1 Zoom indicator
2 Digital zoom
3 Focus mode/manual focus dis-
tance
4 External flash indicator
5 Flash mode (built-in flash)
6 Battery indicator
7 Image sharpening
8 White-balance program
9 Sensitivity (ISO equivalency)
10 Image adjustment
11 Image size
12 Image quality
13 Number of exposures remain-
ing at current settings
14 Exposure compensation
15 Aperture (f number)
16 Shutter speed
17 Exposure mode
18 Metering mode
19 Continuous (multi-shot) mode
20 Exposure bracketing indicator
21 Auto-exposure lock
22 White-balance lock
23 Best-shot selection
24 Lens converter indicator
25 Current folder
26 User set number
27 Self-timer indicator
28 Auto-exposure target (spot
metering)
29 Focus areas
30 Exposure display (manual expo-
sure mode)
31 “Date not set” icon
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Controls
Playback options
Advanced shooting options (e.g.,
white balance, metering)
Basic camera setup (e.g., formatting
memory cards, setting time and
date). SET-UP menus for M-REC
and PLAY accessible from SHOOT-
ING and PLAY BACK menus
respectively. Options available
depend on operating mode.
Menu
PLAY BACK
SHOOTING
SET-UP
Mode
PLAY
M-REC
A-REC,
M-REC,
PLAY
Menu operations are performed with the multi selector, the
MENU button, and the command dial, as described on the pages
that follow.