Rotating the Mode dial to the Guide position brings up this helpful menu. This is a useful function that will help beginners obtain better photos.

The AUTO shooting mode turns the L210 into a fully automatic point-n-shoot camera. This simplified mode has limited access to the menu options, in fact, you can only change the image size/quality, flash mode, and focus area.

When using Auto or Portrait mode, pressing the "E"ffects button will give you access to these creative options: Color. (Image Adjust is available in Program and Manual mode)

When you half press the shutter release, the AF marks will turn green if focus is achieve or red if it fails. The flash icon also turns red when the flash is going to fire.

When using Program or Manual mode, pressing the "E"ffects button will give you access to these creative options: Color and Image Adjust

Record menu options (except in Auto):

Sharpness - Soft, Normal, Vivid
Contrast - Soft, Normal, Vivid
Focus Area - Mulit AF, Center AF
Voice Memo - Off or On
Voice Record - Record audio only option

Press the Fn (FuNction) button in program mode to change:

Size - 10M, 9M (Wide), 7M, 7M (Wide) 5M, 3M, 1M
Quality - Super Fine, Fine, Normal
Metering - Multi, Spot, Center
Shooting - Single, Continuous, AEB, Motion Capture
ISO Speed - Auto or fixed at 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 equivalents
White Balance - Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent H , Fluorescent L, Tungsten, Custom set
Exposure Compensation - ±2EV in 1/3EV steps

Here you can see the Dual IS Scene mode. It uses both the OIS system and high ISO settings to help combat camera-shake and motion blur in low lighting.

The L210 offers various scene modes, like Portrait shown above.

Here is the menu when the Mode dial is at the Scene position.

Movie mode records 800x592 (20fps), 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 length of these movies is limited only by the amount of available memory (2GB max. clip size). Unlike most models, you can use the optical zoom while recording.