The AUTO shooting mode turns the Digimax V700 into an automatic point-n-shoot camera. There's only two flash options; red-eye reduction or disabled and the menu has simplified image size and quality choices.

Program AE mode, the camera selects both shutter speed and aperture automatically. There's a battery level icon, zoom lens gauge, the "322" indicates the number of pictures remaining. The "3072" means 7-megapixel image size, the icon below that indicates the quality level (Superfine). The Flash mode is "A"uto, the green square in the center is the auto focus area and we have half-pressed the shutter to get an AF lock. On the bottom left are the Single frame drive mode and live histogram. On the bottom right is the time and date.

Record menu options (except in Auto):

Size - 3072x2304, 2816x2112, 2592x1944, 2272x1704, 2048x1536, 1600x1200, 1024x768 or 640x480
Quality - TIFF, SuperFine, Fine or Normal
Metering - Multi or Spot
Shooting - Single, Continuous, AE Bracketing, AF Bracketing
Sharpness - Soft, Normal, Vivid
Effect - Normal, B&W, Sepia, Negative
Setup - Setup menu
MySet - Save up to 3 custom MySet parameters

Press the +/- button to change:

Exposure Compensation - +/- 2 EV in 1/2 EV steps
White Balance - Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent H, Fluorescent L, Tungsten or Custom
ISO Speed - Auto or fixed at 50, 100, 200, 400 equivalents
RGB - Adjusts the Red, Green, and Blue values of the image to be captured

Manual mode, you set both the shutter speed and the aperture manually by rotating the jog dial surrounding the shutter button. Depressing the AE lock button toggles between aperture and shutter adjustment. The camera will display the shutter speed and aperture on-screen, along with an indication of exposure correctness.

Shutter-priority AE, you select the desired shutter speed and the camera will select the best aperture setting automatically. Slower shutter speeds can give moving objects a motion-blur effect, faster speeds will "freeze" a moving object.

Aperture-priority AE, you select the desired aperture value and the camera will select the best shutter speed automatically. Small aperture numbers yield less depth of field (range of focus), large aperture numbers yield greater depth of field.

Movie mode records 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 motion video at 15 or 30fps with audio. Movie clips are saved as Windows AVI format video files. The optical zoom cannot be used during movie recording, you can preset it before recording starts. The length of these movies is limited only by the amount of available memory. The elapsed time of the current recording is indicated at the bottom of the LCD viewfinder, and the remaining capacity of the memory card is shown at the upper right.

Movie mode menu options:

Size - 640 x 480, 320 x 240 or 160 x 128
Frame Rate - 30fps or 15fps
Metering - Multi or Spot
Effect - Normal, B&W, Sepia, Negative
Stabilizer - On or Off

And you can also Record Audio only. The length is limited to a maximum of two hours. Audio recordings are saved as Windows WAV format files.