The last picture captured is displayed full screen when you turn the Mode Dial to the Play position. The data initially displayed is the battery condition.

Pressing the UP or DOWN button on the 4 way navigation control brings up the exposure information including the folder and image name, physical file size, date and time recorded, quality, DPOF setting contents: number of prints(0 Pieces) and date imprint on or off (off in this example), battery condition (full), shutter speed, aperture and exposure compensation.

Pressing the center of the 4-way jog switch enables the thumbnail index mode. You can quickly search through your stored images and select one for full screen playback.

You can enlarge the image 2X by pressing the zoom control to the telephoto position. Once the image is magnified you can then scroll around inside of it. This is good for checking critical focus, color or composition on the small color LCD screen.

Pressing the MENU button while in Play mode brings up this screen of options. You can bring up an index page of up to 6 images, protect them from accidental erasure,and erase displayed or all images. You can rotate the vertically shot picture in the screen, start a slide show, or mark images for or index request when DPOF printing. You can also crop and resize an image and save it as a copy.

Movie clips are played back inside the smaller screen, the running time displayed. Movies are silent as no audio is recorded.