LCD Display
The top-panel monochrome LCD display
shows a broad range of current status infor-
mation. This display is a bit much to bite off
in one chunk, as you can see by the full dis-
play in figure 1.15. In practice, only a frac-
tion of this information will be displayed at
any one time, and some of the readouts
(such as the GPS connection status indica-
tor) are so specialized you might never see
them at all under normal circumstances.
In figure 1.16, I’ve color-coded the various
displays to keep them from all running
together visually. They’re not colored in real
life, of course, but I think the coding makes
them easier to keep separate here. Here’s a
list of what’s what.
In dark blue (upper left):
✦ Exposure mode. Indicates
whether Program, Aperture Priority,
Shutter Priority, or Manual expo-
sure mode is in use.
✦ Flexible program indicator.
Shows that Program mode is in
use and that you can change shut-
ter speed/f-stop combinations to
other equivalent exposures by
rotating the main command dial.
✦ Flash sync. Shows whether X or
FP flash sync is in use (see Chapter
3 for more information on using
flash sync).
✦ Clock not set indicator. Shows
that the date/time should be set,
or that the permanent built-in
clock battery must be replaced by
an authorized technician.
In orange (lower left):
✦ Image size. Indicates the current
resolution being used.
✦ Image quality. Shows whether
image files are being saved in RAW
format, Fine (JPEG), Normal
(JPEG), Basic (JPEG), or
RAW+Fine/Norm/Basic.
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