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Setup Menu 2, posing in Figure 1-35, contains these options:

FIGURE 1-35: Through the first option on this menu, you can adjust the delay time of the camera’s automatic shutdown feature.

 Auto Power Off: To save battery power, the camera automatically goes to sleep after a certain period of inactivity. At the default setting, the camera nods off after only 10 seconds unless the camera is in Playback mode, Live View mode, or Movie mode, in which case it waits until 30 seconds have passed.You can adjust this timing so that 30 seconds is the minimum delay time (the 10-second variation is disabled at the 30-second setting). Or you can extend the delay up to as long as 15 minutes. To disable auto shutdown altogether, select Off — but be aware that even at that setting, the monitor still turns off if you ignore the camera for 30 minutes.Regardless of the shutoff time you select, you can bring the camera out of hibernation mode by giving the shutter button a quick half-press and release or by pressing the DISP button.

 Disp. Brightness: This option enables you to make the monitor display brighter or darker. But if you take this step, what you see on the display may not be an accurate rendition of exposure. The default setting is 4, which is the position at the midpoint of the brightness scale.

 Screen Off/On Btn: Through this option, available only for viewfinder photography, you tell the camera what to do with regards to the Quick Control display when you press the shutter button halfway. At the default setting, Shutter Btn, your half-press of the button then turns the monitor off, and releasing the button turns the monitor back on.Option 2, Shutter/DISP, still results in the monitor shutting itself off when you half-press the shutter button, but to bring the monitor back to life, you have to press the DISP button. And Option 3, Remains On, lives up to its name: The screen stays on even after you press the shutter button halfway. If you want to shut the monitor off, you have to press the INFO button.I suggest keeping this one set to the default (Shutter Btn.). Whatever you choose, remember that the setting has no effect during Live View or movie shooting. In fact, if the camera is in Movie mode or Live View is turned on, the option disappears from the menu.

 Date/Time/Zone: If you didn’t do so when following the initial camera setup steps at the start of this chapter, enter the time, date, and time zone now. Keeping the date/time accurate is important because that information is recorded as part of the image file. In your photo browser, you can then see when you shot an image and, equally handy, search for images by the date they were taken. Chapter 9 shows you where to locate the date/time data when browsing your picture files. When the Time Zone setting is active, the Time Difference value that’s displayed in the upper-right corner of the display is the difference between the Time Zone you select and Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is the standard by which the world sets its clocks. For example, New York City is 5 hours behind UTC. This information is provided so that if your time zone isn’t in the list of available options, you can select one that shares the same relationship to the UTC.

 Language: This option determines the language of any text displayed on the camera monitor.