The Home menu gives you direct access to all of the different menus on the camera.

Shooting
View Images
Printing
Manage Memory
Settings

The camera mode is selected from the first option in the menu: Auto, Program, Scene and Movie. Within the scene selection you will find several scene modes: High ISO, Smile, Portrait, Night Portrait, Landcape, Sport, Beach, Snow and Fireworks.

Half-pressing the shutter will activate the autofocus system, if successful it displays a green "OK" dot and the shutter speed and aperture values are shown at the bottom.

Image size choices:

8M, 3:2 (for perfect 4×6" size prints), 5M, 3M, VGA, and 16:9 (HDTV.)

Menu Button:

Rec Mode - Normal, Burst, BRK ± .3, .7, 1.0
White Balance - Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Fluorescent 1-2-3, Incandescent, Flash
ISO - Auto or manually locked at 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000
Color Mode - Normal, Vivid, Natural, Sepia, B&W
Flash Level - Low, Standard, High
Red Eye Reduction - Auto, On, Off
Steady Shot - Shooting, On, Off
Setup - Setup Menu

Macro (close-up) focus mode allows you to shoot much closer than normal. The focus range in macro is from 8 cm and the magnifying glass from 1 cm.

Record motion video with audio. The 640×480 "VX Fine" mode is 30fps and requires the use of Memory Stick Duo Pro media to insure that it can stream the data fast enough from the camera.