Typical playback image with the Info option enabled which displays the image quality (SHQ), image size (2272x1704), exposure compensation (0.0), white balance (Auto), date and time of capture and the folder name and file number on the bottom.

Press the wide angle zoom button to enter the Index playback mode. Depending on the menu setting, the index is 4, 9 or 16 images per page.

The playback image can be magnified in six steps from 1.5x to 4.0x in 0.5x increments. Press the telephoto zoom button to enlarge and the wide angle button to shrink.

The Play mode menu has four sections; Play, Edit, Card and Setup.

PLAY Menu

Protect - Protect against deletion, On or Off

Rotate - Rotate portrait mode pictures 90° clockwise or counter clockwise

DPOF - Print Order Format, set current image or all images for printing

Black&White - Turn color image into B&W

Sepia - Turn color image into Sepia tone

Trim - Crop and create smaller 640x480 or 320x240 image

Setup - Erase ALL or Format the xD-Picture Card

All Reset - OFF = current settings remembered from power off to power on.
ON = all settings are reset to default.

Menu Language - Japanese, English, French, German

Camera Sounds - Enable or disable camera beeps

Monitor Brightness - Adjust LCD backlight

Set Clock - Set time and or date

Video Out - Video out signal - NTSC or PAL format

Index - Select 4, 9 or 16 images per page in Index mode

Movie clips can be played back on the camera's LCD or via a television set by connecting the Video cable. There is no sound because there is none recorded.

The menu in movie mode lets you play the movie clip normally or frame by frame. The Index option lets you grab nine frames from the movie clip and saves them as a new 1024x768 still image.