User Manual

Menu charts – general
Throughout this manual you will find charts to explain the steps
and procedures required to alter the various settings. These
charts are laid out to graphically illustrate in a simple manner
how to navigate through the menus. While they include all the
information that would be presented on the display relevant to
that section, they cannot illustrate all the possible combinations
of the various symbols seen on a screen at one time as that would
be impractical and too confusing. If you are familiar with mobile/
cell phone menus, for example, then the design of the layout and
working practice will not be unfamiliar.
You should find that, in practice, working your way through a
menu on the camera is a good deal simpler and more obvious
than the written explanation implies!
In the descriptions, various terms are used regarding menu navigation.
Menus have ‘trees’, for example, which describes their imaginary
graphical layout where you could trace a navigational
path along its ‘branches’. Each new section, or stopping off point
on the branches, seen on the display is called a ‘screen’. Therefore
a screen is the graphical display of where you are on the menu
and represents the current state of settings.
Symbols used in the charts
F
R
MENU
ISO/WB
Enter
AF
On
Use front control wheel
(direction depends on user setting)
Use rear control wheel
(direction depends on user setting)
Press button or turn wheel
MENU button on the grip
Choose ENTER
(by pressing ISO/WB button on grip)
Choose ON
(by pressing AF button on grip)
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The H3D II features the advantage of multiple customization of
settings. This means that your personal choice of settings, and
thereby appearance of various combinations of symbols on the
display at any time, will not necessarily be the same as many of
the screens illustrated in this manual.
To simplify the descriptions, reference is often made to a ‘main’
or standard screen. Apart from default settings, there is no actual
standard setting in the normal sense and therefore you create
your own ‘standard’, which of course can be changed at any
time.
The ‘main’ screen is therefore the one you have currently created
and is the one visible on the display when photographing (except
where a particular mode is in actual operation, such as self-timer,
for example).
ISO/WB
Save
Choose Save
(by pressing the ISO / WB button on
grip) The new setting will be saved
and chosen action can be carried
out. Setting will be retained until
changed.
Functions in loop on menu
A loop means that the available
functions on that particular branch
of the menu can be successively
accessed in either direction of the
control wheels without a break in
flow. That is, you could turn the
wheel clockwise or anticlockwise to
arrive at the desired function.
Main direction of path
through menu
The main path traces step-bystep
the path that has to be taken
through the various branches of the
menu tree as they appear on the display
to reach the relevant functions.