Pentax K-50 specifications  Shooting Info Display, Red, Return to the status screen, Compass

• If no operations are made within 1 minute in the control panel, the camera returns to standby mode.

•You can change the display color of the status screen and control panel. Set in [LCD Display] of the [R Set-up 1] menu. (p.212)

Shooting Info Display

If you press the Mbutton while the control panel is displayed, you can select the type of information displayed in standby mode for when shooting with the viewfinder. Use the four-way controller (2345) to select a display type and press the 4button.

Screen	Displayed Information
Display
Status	Displays the settings for shooting with the viewfinder. (p.25)
Screen
	Displays the camera angle. A bar scale
	indicating the horizontal camera angle
	appears at the bottom of the screen, and a
	bar scale indicating the vertical camera
Electronic	angle appears on the right side. If the
	camera angle cannot be detected, both
Level
	ends and the center of the bar scales flash
	red.	Example: Tilted 1.5° to
	Press the shutter release button halfway to		the left (yellow)
	return to the status screen.		Vertically level
			(green)
Display Off	Nothing is displayed on the monitor.
	The current latitude, longitude, altitude, direction, and Coordinated
Electronic	Universal Time (UTC) are displayed. Press the shutter release button
	halfway or turn the camera off and on again to return to the status screen.
Compass
	Available only when the optional GPS unit is attached to the camera
	and is operating. (p.269)

The Shooting Info Display selection screen is not displayed when the mode dial is set to C.

• If Electronic Level or Display Off is selected, the display setting returns to the status screen when the camera is turned off and on again. If you select the check box for [Shooting Info Display] in [Memory] of the [A Rec. Mode 4] menu, the selected screen display appears the next time the camera is turned on. (p.218)

•The Live View image and the indicators which provide shooting information are displayed during Live View shooting. If you do not want to display the indicators, you can change the setting in [Live View] of the [ARec. Mode 4] menu. (p.107)

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