Typical still image recording screen in the default Program AE shooting mode. There's space for another 79 pictures on the SD card and the battery level is full. The white brackets in the center is the auto focus area.

When the shutter is half-pressed and the auto focus is locked the AF point will shrink and turn green and the selected shutter speed and aperture value is displayed.

Pressing the DISPLAY button will turn the color LCD on/off and also controls how much information is overlayed on top of the live image. Here we have all of the information enabled including the real-time histogram display.

Still image menu options:

Recorded Pixels - 2304x1728, 1600x1200, 1024x768 or 640x480
Quality Level - Best, Better or Good
White Balance - Auto, Daylight, Shade, Tungsten, Fluorescent or Manual
Focusing Area - Multi. or Spot
AE Metering - Multi segment, Center-weighted or Spot
Sensitivity - Auto, 50, 100, 200, 400
EV Compensation - +/-2.0 in 1/3EV steps
3D Mode - Parallel Mode or Cross Mode
Fast Fwd Movie - Sets speed (x2, x5, x10, x20, x50, x100 and Off)
Digital Zoom - On/Off
Instant Review - 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 secs. and Off
Memory - Saving shooting function settings when camera is turned off
Sharpness - Hard, Normal or Soft
Saturation - Hard, Normal or Soft
Contrast - Hard, Normal or Soft

The shooting modes are selected from a virtual Mode Dial that is activated by pressing Down on the 4-way controller. The selection includes: Program, Night scene, Movie, Panorama assist, 3D image, Landscape, Flower, Portrait, Self-Portrait, Surf & Snow, Autumn Color, Sunset, Art museum, Text, Cuisine, Soft, Posterization , Digital filter, User, Marine, Marine Movie

The Digital Filter mode includes: Slim and Wide for distorting the image height and width and a host of color effect filters (Black & White, Sepia, Red, Pink, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple)

In the Super Macro Mode you can focus from 2.4 to 8 inches with excellent results. The regular Macro mode covers a range from 7 to 20 inches.

Manual focus mode lets you set the focus distance manually with an onscreen distance gauge and the center 50% of the image is enlarged while focusing.

Manual AF point selection lets you override the automatic focus system and place the active AF point anywhere in a 7 x 7 grid on the screen.

3D mode helps you to capture two images with the proper offset so that they can be printed and then viewed with the (now optional) stereoscopic viewing aid.

Panorama Assist mode lets you take a series of images and then join them to create a panoramic image. There are four types of modes available: Join the images on the left, right, top or bottom. After the first image is captured you will see a transparent portion of the first image, this is used to achieve the proper overlap for a good panoramic image. The images captured in Panorama Assist mode can be "stitched" together using the supplied ACDSee software.

Movie mode lets you record motion JPEG at 320 x 240 resolution at 15fps, monaural audio is also recorded. The length of movies is limited only by available memory.