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Choose the role played by the AE-L/AF-L b utton.
Option
I_
AE/AF lock
!_
AEIockonly
AF lock only
!_@ AE lock (hold)
AF-ON
AE-L/AF-L button
Description
Focus and exposure
lock while the AE-L/AF-L button
is pressed.
Exposure locks while the AE-L/AF-L button
is pressed.
Focus locks while the AE-L/AF-L button
is pressed.
Exposure locks when the AE-L/AF-L button
is pressed, and remains locked
until the button
is pressed a second time or the exposure meters turn
off.
The AE-L/AF-L button
initiates
autofocus.
The shutter-release
button
can
not be used to focus.
Choose Yes to reverse the direction
of the command
dial.
If Release locked
is selected, the shutter-release
button
is only enabled when a
memory card is inserted in the camera.
Selecting Enable release allows the shutter
to be released when no memory card is inserted, although
no pictures will be
recorded (they will however
be displayed
in the monitor in demo mode).
Note that
when photographs
are being captured
to a computer
using Camera Control Pro 2
(available separately), photographs
are not recorded to the camera memory card and
the shutter will be enabled regardless of the setting chosen for this option.
At the default setting of +.;,_,_o_,_,.. (+o-), the exposure
indicators
in the viewfinder
and information
display are
displayed with positive values on the left and negative values on
the right. Select _ _,_,_,,o,_,_,;.+
(-o+) to display negative values
on the left and positive values on the right.
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