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Your camera offers scads of options for customizing its performance. Later chapters explain settings related to picture-taking, such as those that affect flash behavior and autofocusing. The rest of this chapter offers a quick rundown of options on the Setup menu, which are mainly (but not all) related to general camera operations. Some of these features deserve only a brief glance; others may require your attention on a regular basis. I’ve also included advice on a few additional pre-use options you may want to consider that aren’t found on the Setup menu.

If you haven’t yet done so, also follow the instructions provided in the earlier section “Changing from Guided to Standard Display Mode” to turn off Guided mode for the four options found on the Shooting Display Settings menu. Otherwise, screens you see on your camera won’t match the figures in this book, and some instructions won’t work as spelled out, either.

Also note that menu offerings change depending on your exposure mode — Scene Intelligent Auto, P, SCN, and so on — and whether the camera is set to Movie mode, Live View photography mode, or viewfinder photography mode. For now, put the camera in still photo mode (the On/Off switch should be set to On) and exit Live View mode if it’s active. (The Live View button is just to the right of the viewfinder and is marked with a camera symbol.) Then rotate the Mode dial on top of the camera to the P, Tv, Av, or M position. You can adjust all the camera’s options only in these advanced exposure modes.

Note that when you shoot in Live View or Movie mode, some menus offer additional or different options than when you use the viewfinder. I mention these options in the following lists even though they don’t appear in the accompanying figures, which feature the menus as they appear during viewfinder shooting. Yeah, I know, this is all getting fairly dense; don’t panic, the goal here is just to give you a menu overview that you can access quickly. I detail many settings further when discussing the relevant shooting topics later in the book.