them. (Refer to the second screen in Figure 1-10; the gray text box is a Feature Guide message.)
I leave it up to you whether to disable these features. After you’re familiar with the various exposure modes and camera settings, they simply slow you down, so I keep them off. But if you find them helpful, by all means leave them set to Enable. Just remember that instructions from here on out won’t mention them.
6. Press Menu to exit the menu system.
FIGURE 1-11: Choose the Display Level Settings tab to turn the Guided mode features on or off.
FIGURE 1-12: Here’s how the menu and Quick Control screens appear in Standard mode.
You can return to the Display Level menu at any time to turn the various features on or off as you see fit.
Ordering from Camera Menus
Although you can adjust some settings by using external controls, you access the majority of options via camera menus. The next section provides the basics you need to know to navigate menus and select menu options. Following that, you can find out how to deal with a special category of menu screens, the Custom Functions.
Again, figures from this point forward show menus as they appear in Standard mode. See the preceding section if you need help switching from Guided to Standard menu display.
Here’s how to display menus and adjust the options on those menus:
❯❯ Opening and closing menus: Press the Menu button to display the menus; press again to exit the menu system and return to shooting. You also can just press the shutter button halfway and release it to exit to shooting mode.
❯❯ Understanding menu screens: Which menus and menu screens appear depends on the exposure mode, which you set by rotating the Mode dial on top of the camera. Things also change when you switch from still photography to Movie mode, which you accomplish by moving the On/Off switch to the movie-camera symbol. Figure 1-13 shows a menu screen as it appears for normal photography in the advanced exposure modes (P, Tv, Av, and M).
However, the following menu elements are common to all exposure modes:
● Menu icons: Along the top of the screen, you see icons representing individual menus. In the advanced exposure modes, you get the five menus labeled in Figure 1-13: Shooting, Playback, Setup, Display Level Settings, and My Menu. The My Menu feature, which enables you to build a custom menu, isn’t available in other exposure modes.
● Menu page numbers: Some menus are multi-page affairs. The numbers under the menu icons represent the various pages of the current menu.
The highlighted menu icon marks the active menu; options on that menu appear automatically on the main part of the screen. In Figure 1-13, Shooting Menu 1 is active, for example.
❯❯ Selecting a menu or menu page: You have these options:
● Touchscreen: Tap the menu icon to select that menu; tap a page number to display that page.
● Cross keys or Main dial: Press the right or left cross keys or rotate the Main dial to scroll through the menu icons. If you use this technique, you have to scroll through all pages of a menu to get to the neighboring menu.
❯❯ Select and adjust a menu setting: Again, you have a choice of techniques:
● Touchscreen: Tap the menu item to display options for that setting. The current setting is highlighted; tap another setting to select it. On some screens, you see a Set icon; if it appears, tap that icon to lock in your selection and exit the settings screen.
● Cross keys and Set button: Press the up or down cross key to highlight the menu setting and then press the Set button to display the available options for that setting. Use the cross keys to highlight your preferred setting and press the Set button again.
FIGURE 1-13: You can access all menus only when the Mode dial is set to P, Tv, Av, or M.
Instructions from this point forward assume you don’t need to be told the specifics of how to select menus and menu options at every turn. So instead of stepping you through each button press or touchscreen tap required to adjust a setting, instructions simply say something like “Choose Image Quality from Shooting Menu 1.” If choosing a menu option involves any special steps, however, instructions offer guidance.
Custom Functions are a group of advanced settings available only in the P, Tv, Av, and M exposure modes. (Remember: You set the exposure mode via the Mode dial on top of the camera.)
To explore Custom Functions, choose that item from Setup Menu 4, as shown on the left in Figure 1-14. You then see the options screen for a specific Custom Function, as shown on the right in the figure. Here’s a guide to using the Custom Function screens, which work a little differently than other menu screens:
❯❯ Interpreting the screens: The Custom Functions screens are a little intimidating until you know what’s what:
● Custom Functions are grouped into four categories: Exposure, Image, Autofocus/Drive, and Operation/Others. The category number and name appear in the upper-left corner of the screen. In the right screen in Figure 1-14, for example, the label indicates that you’re looking at a screen from the Autofocus/Drive category. (C.Fn III refers to Custom Functions group three.)
● The number of the selected function appears in the upper-right corner. Custom Function 9 is shown in Figure 1-14.
● Settings for the current function appear in the middle of the screen. Blue text indicates the current setting. The default setting is represented by the number 0. So in Figure 1-14, Auto is selected
