The G button
Press the G button to view the menus.
| 1 | C [PHOTO SHOOTING MENU] (The photo shooting menu) |
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| 2 | 1 [VIDEO RECORDING MENU] (The video recording menu) |
| 3 | A [CUSTOM SETTINGS MENU] (The Custom Settings menu) |
| 4 | D [PLAYBACK MENU] (The playback menu) |
| 5 | B [SETUP MENU] (The setup menu) |
| 6 | a [NETWORK MENU] (The network menu) |
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| 7 | O [MY MENU]/m [RECENT SETTINGS]* (My Menu/Recent settings) |
| 8 | The d Help icon (The d (help) icon) |
| 9 | Current settings |
- You can choose the menu displayed. The default is [MY MENU].
Using the menus
You can navigate the menus using the multi selector and J button.
| 1 | Move cursor up |
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| 2 | Select highlighted item |
| 3 | Display sub-menu, select highlighted item, or move cursor right |
| 4 | Move cursor down |
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| 5 | Cancel and return to previous menu, or move cursor left |
- Highlight the icon for the current menu.
Press 4 to place the cursor in the menu-selection area.
- Select a menu.
Press 1 or 3 to select the desired menu.
- Position the cursor in the selected menu.
Press 2 to position the cursor in the selected menu.
- Highlight a menu item.
Press 1 or 3 to highlight a menu item.
- Display options.
Press 2 to display options for the selected menu item.
- Highlight an option.
Press 1 or 3 to highlight an option.
- Select the highlighted option.
- Press J to select the highlighted option.
- To exit without making a selection, press the G button.
- To exit the menus and return to shooting mode, press the shutter-release button halfway.
Grayed-out items
- Some items and menu options may be unavailable depending on camera status. Unavailable items are displayed in gray.
- In some cases, pressing J when a grayed-out item is highlighted will display a message explaining why the item is unavailable.
ON/OFF only items
If the only options available for the current item are [ON] and [OFF], you can switch from [ON] to [OFF] or vice versa simply by pressing J, pressing the multi selector right (2), or tapping the item in the display.
The d (help) icon
- Where available, a description of the currently-selected item can be viewed by pressing the W (Q) button.
- Press 1 or 3 to scroll.
- Press W (Q) again to return to the menus.
Touch controls
You can also navigate the menus using touch controls (Navigating the menus).
Text entry
A keyboard is displayed when text entry is required, for example if you are called on to enter a file name or the like. Enter text as described below.
| 1 | Text display area |
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| 2 | Keyboard area |
| 3 | Keyboard selection |
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- Enter characters at the current cursor position by highlighting them with the multi selector arrow keys and then pressing J.
- The cursor can be moved left or right in the text display area by rotating either of the command dials.
- To cycle through the upper- and lower-case and symbol keyboards, highlight the keyboard selection icon and press J. The keyboard selection icon may not be available in some cases.
- If a character is entered when the text display area is full, the rightmost character will be deleted.
- To delete the character under the cursor, press the O button.
- To complete entry, press X.
- To exit without completing text entry, press G.