AUTO record mode screen display. The Zoom indicator displays briefly whenever the Zoom is operated. The "7M Fine" icon indicates the image resolution is 7-megapixels at Fine quality. Flash is set to Auto and will fire when needed and there's 61 pictures remaining at the current image resolution.

When you half-press the shutter release the autofocus is locked and the exposure is calculated and set. If autofocus was successful the AF dot icon is blue-green, if it fails it is red and blinks.

AUTO record menu:

Image Quality/Size - (7M)3072x2304, (5M)2592x1944, (3M)2048x1536, (2M)1600x1200, (TV)1024x768 or (VGA)640x480 - Fine, Normal or Basic quality

White Balance - Auto, Manual preset, Daylight, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Cloudy, Shady or Speedlight

Metering - Matrix, Center-weighted, Spot or Spot-AF

Continuous - Shooting mode: Single frame, Continuous, 5-shot buffer, Multi-Shot 16

BSS - Best Shot Selector

Color Options - Standard, Vivid, Black-and-white, Sepia, Cyanotype

Image adjustment - Auto, Normal, More contrast, Less contrast

Image sharpening - Auto, High, Normal, Low, Off

Sensitivity - Auto, 50, 100, 200, 400

Auto bracketing - Off, AE bracketing, WB bracketing

Saturation control - Enhanced, Normal, Moderate

AF area mode - Auto, Manual or Off

Auto-focus mode - Single-AF or Continuous-AF

Noise reduction - On or Off

If the Menu option is set to "icon" then this is what your menu will look like.

Pressing the 4-way selector "up" changes flash modes, "right" enables self-timer and "down" to enable macro focus mode. You set these options via onscreen popups as shown above.

Press the 4-way controller to the "Right" to adjust the exposure compensation. While adjusting you get a live histogram display to visually show you the exposure level.

Scene mode options include: Party, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Close Up, Museum, Fireworks, Copy, Back Light, Panorama assist and Underwater. The last two options let you set image size and quality.

The Panorma Assist mode will let you create multi-picture panaormas easily with an on-screen guide that shows you the proper image overlap to create the best panorama.

Some of the portrait scene modes have onscreen framing guides to help you properly position your subject for the desired effect.

Whenever you are making a menu selection you can press the Help button (telephoto zoom) to display a brief explanation of the mode or option.

Each of the other specific scene modes on the Mode Dial; Portrait, Landscape, Sports and Night Portrait, have their own sub-menus of further choices.

One of the unique Portrait modes is Face Priority AF, as you can see from the frame above it can identify the "face" in the frame and properly focuses on it.

Movie mode options:

TV Movie* - Color 640 x 480 pixels, 30fps

TV Movie - Color 640 x 480 pixels, 15fps

Small size* - Color 320 x 240 pixels, 30fps

Smaller size* - Color 160 x 120 pixels, 30fps

Autofocus mode - Single or Continuous AF

Electronic VR - Vibration Reduction - On or Off