AUTO record mode screen display. The Zoom indicator displays briefly whenever the Zoom is operated. Upper right is an icon to indicate we are using a SD memory card rather than INTernal memory. The "5M" indicates the image resolution is 5-megapixels at Fine quality. Flash is set to Auto and will fire when needed and there's 85 pictures remaining at the current image resolution.

When you half-press the shutter button it sets the exposure and attempts to lock the auto focus (AF.) If successful the AF area used is shown in green and it display a green AF icon.

Record menu options:

Image mode (Quality/Size) - Quality: Fine, Normal or Basic
Size: 5M 2592x1944, 3M 2048x1536, 2M 1600x1200, PC 1024x768 or TV 640x480

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

Metering - Matrix, Center-weighted or Spot

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

BSS - Best Shot Selector, on/off

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

Image Sharpening - Auto, High, Normal, Low, None

Sensitivity - Auto, 64, 100, 200, 400 (ISO equivalent)

Auto Bracketing - AE Bracketing, White balance bracketing, off

Saturation Control - Enhanced, Normal, Moderate

AF Area Mode - Auto (5-point), Manual (99 points), Off

Auto-Focus Mode - Continuous-AF or Single-AF

Noise Reduction - On or Off

You can let the camera automatically select one of 5 AF areas or you can manually select any one of 99 possible AF areas.

The un-assisted SCENE modes include: Party, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Close Up, Museum, Fireworks, Copy, Back Light and Panorama assist

Shooting in one of the scene-assisted modes (Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night Portrait) the camera displays framing assist outlines on the LCD such as the Night Portrait mode screen shown here. Each of these modes has a sub-menu of other options available for that particular mode.

This is the sub-menu for the Portrait scene mode: Individual setups for Portrait, Portrait Left, Portrait Right, Portrait closeup, Portrait couple and Portrait figure. You can also select image size and quality desired.

When recording at 640x480 / 30fps (TV Movie) Nikon recommends the use of a fast (10mbps) Secure Digital card to prevent recording errors. SanDisk, Lexar and others all make "fast" SD cards, look for a speed rating of 45x-60x or better.

Movie mode menu options:

TV Movie - Color 640 x 480 pixels, 30fps

Small Movie - Color 320 x 240 pixels, 30fps

Smaller Movie - Color 160 x 120 pixels, 30fps