Selecting settings from menus
Press and hold the A 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].
- The menus can also be displayed by selecting [MENU] in the i menu.
Using the menus
You can navigate the menus using the multi selector.
1 | Press the multi selector up: Move cursor up |
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2 | Press the center of the multi selector: Select the highlighted item |
3 | Press the multi selector right: Display sub-menu, select highlighted item, or move cursor right |
4 | Press the multi selector down: Move cursor down |
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5 | Press the multi selector left: Cancel and return to previous menu, or move cursor left |
- Highlight the icon for the current menu.
Press the multi selector left to place the cursor in the menu-selection area. - Select a menu.
Press the multi selector up or down to select the desired menu. - Position the cursor in the selected menu.
Press the multi selector right to position the cursor in the selected menu. - Highlight a menu item.
Press the multi selector up or down to highlight a menu item. - Display options.
Press the multi selector right to display options for the selected menu item. - Highlight an option.
Press the multi selector up or down to highlight an option. - Select the highlighted option.
- Press the center of the multi selector to save changes and exit.
- To exit without making a selection, press the A button.
- To exit the menus and return to shooting mode, press the shutter-release/REC 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 the center of the multi selector 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 the center of the multi selector, pressing the multi selector right, or tapping the item in the display.
The d (help) icon
- Where available, a description of the currently-selected item can be viewed by moving the zoom control toward −.
- Press the multi selector up or down to scroll.
- Move the zoom control toward − 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 the center of the multi selector.
- 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 the center of the multi selector. 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, tap [Delete] on the display.
- To complete entry, move the zoom control toward +.
- To exit without completing text entry, press the A button.