Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu

eBrightness

Choose from five settings for monitor brightness. The default setting is 3.

fDate Imprint

Date and time of recording can be imprinted on pictures. This information can be printed even from printers that do not support printing of date and time (A102).

Off (default setting)

Date and time are not imprinted on pictures.

Date

Date is imprinted on the bottom right corner of pictures shot while this option is in effect.

Date and time

Date and Time are imprinted on the bottom right corner of pictures shot while this option is in effect.

Date counter

An useful function for tracking the growth of a child, growth diary of a plant or other similar situations (A166).

The setting for Date Imprint can be viewed on the monitor while shooting (nothing will be displayed when set to Off) (A8).

BDate Imprint

Imprinted dates form a permanent part of image data and cannot be deleted.

Dates imprinted at an Image size (A126) setting of K 640×480 may be difficult to read. Choose J 1024×768 or larger when using date imprint.

The date is recorded using the format selected in the setup menu’s Date item (A20, 162).

Dates cannot be imprinted in the following situations (A191).

-When dSports, lMuseum or pPanorama assist is selected in scene mode

-When Continuous, BSS or Continuous flash is selected for Continuous (A140)

-When modes other than Off is selected for Auto bracketing (A143)

-Movie mode

-When NRW (RAW), NRW (RAW) + Fine, NRW (RAW) + Normal or NRW (RAW) + Basic is selected for Image quality (A124)

CDate Imprint and Print Set

When printing from DPOF-compatible printers which support printing of shooting date and photo information, the date and information can be printed on pictures without date and time imprinted on Date imprint, using options in the Print set menu (A101).

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