Shooting – Advanced Functions

Customizing the Camera (My Camera Settings)

You can select the theme, start-up image and sound, operation sound, self-timer sound and shutter sound

used on this camera. These are called My Camera settings. You can also customize the and options for each item with images recorded on the memory card and newly recorded sounds or by using the supplied software. See the Canon Digital Camera Software Starter Guide Disk for details.

 

Item/Menu Screen

Setting Content

Reference

 

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Theme

Selects a common theme for the start-up image, start-up sound, operation

 

 

 

sound, self-timer sound and shutter sound.*1

 

 

 

 

Start-up Image Sets the start-up image when you turn on the camera.

Start-up Sound Sets the start-up sound when you turn on the camera.*1

 

 

Operation Sound

Sets the sound when any button other than the shutter button is operated.*1

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Selftimer Sound

Sets the sound played 2 seconds before the shutter releases in self-timer

 

 

mode.*1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shutter Sound

Sets the shutter sound when you depress the shutter button. There is no

 

 

 

shutter sound in Movie mode.*1

 

My Camera menu

(Off)/ *2/ /

 

settings content

 

 

*1 How the [Mute] setting in the [ (Set up)] menu and each sound setting in the [ (My Camera)] menu are related

To turn off the start-up sound, operation sound, self-timer sound and shutter sound all at once, set [Mute] in the

[ (Set up)] menu to [On]. When [Mute] is set to [On], each sound option will not play even if they are set individually to [On]. Note that the warning signal beeps even when the [Mute] setting is [On].

*2 Default setting

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A510, A520 specifications

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