Chapter Seventeen: The My Menu Menu
My Menu Settings
My Menu is designed to give you access to your six most often referenced menu items. The great majority of menu items are available for registering to My Menu. Once you have registered these frequently-used menu items, you need only to access My Menu, then the specific menu option listed, and you have the same access (and the same interface) as if you had navigated the full menu structure.
Figure 17-2. The My Menu opening screen
Register to My Menu
Figure 17-3. Selecting a My Menu Settings option
Figure 17-4. Choosing items to register
By default, when you select the My Menu tab (the white star icon on a green background, shown in figure 17-1), the opening screen shown in figure 17-2 is displayed, with only the My Menu Settings option available, and that is pre-selected. Press SET to open the My Menu Settings screen, shown in figure 17-3. When you select the Register to My Menu option, the camera displays the first of over 110 menu options you can choose (see figure 17-4). Use the Quick Control Dial or the Multicontroller to scroll through this list, placing the green-bordered rectangle on the menu option you want to register to My Menu. Press SET, select OK, and press SET. Be patient; it takes about a second and a half for the registration to complete. Once a menu option is registered to My Menu, it is still listed, but in gray (notice the ISO Speed Settings item in figure 17-4). When you have completed registering menu options (up to a total of six), press the MENU button to return to the top-level menu for My Menu.
Sort
In today’s world, most people think of sorting as arranging in a progressive order: A–Z, Z–A, 1–100, 100–1, etc. For this function, however, that is not what sort does at all. I think the word “arrange” is more appropriate. In this implementation, when you choose Sort from the menu shown in figure 17-3, the Sort My Menu screen opens, showing a list of all the registered menu options. Use the Quick Control Dial or the Multi-controller to select a menu option you wish to place higher or lower on the list, press SET to select that item, then use the Quick Control Dial or the Multi-controller to move the selected item up or down (notice the up/down arrows to the right of the selected item in figure 17-5). Again, press SET to fix the item at that position on the list.
Figure 17-5. Sorting the registered My Menu items
Delete Item/Items
It is quite likely that after working with My Menu for a bit, you will determine that there are menu options that would serve you better if they were included in My Menu. If you don’t have six menu options already registered in My Menu, then simply start at the top with Register to My Menu. But if the list of registered menu options is at six, then something must be removed to make room. Select the Delete Item/Items option as shown in figure 17-6, then use the Quick Control Dial or the Multi-controller to select the menu option to be deleted.
Figure 17-6. Selecting the Delete Item/Items option
Figure 17-7. Choosing the registered My Menu items to delete
Figure 17-7 shows the Beep item selected for deletion. Press SET after you’ve selected an item. You will get a confirmation screen; select OK and press SET. You now have an empty slot for adding a different menu option.
Delete All Items
Figure 17-8. Selecting the Delete All Items option
Figure 17-9. The Delete confirmation screen
If you decide it’s quicker to just erase all currently registered menu options and start over, then select the Delete All Items option and press SET. On the confirmation screen, select OK and press SET. Now you have a clean slate and can build My Menu from the ground up.
Display From My Menu
Figure 17-10. Selecting the Display From My Menu option
Figure 17-11. An example of the registered My Menu with item status displayed
There has got to be a better phrase to describe the function of this option, but right now, it continues to escape me.
With the option set to Disable, when you press the MENU button the camera’s menu structure will initially open to the last menu opened. But if you set this option to Enable, when you press the MENU button the menu structure will open to My Menu, regardless of which menu you were last working with. If you find that you are going to My Menu frequently, you may decide that this is the better arrangement for you.