Canon 30D User Manual

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PLAYBACK MENU

You get to the Playback menu by pressing MENU and spinning the big dial, or
pressing MENU and then JUMP. The 30D needs to be awake to respond to
the MENU button. Tap the shutter button if the 30D has fallen asleep, which it
does after a minute idle.

Protect allows you to prevent erasure of individual files. To do it, press
MENU, get to Protect, and press SET. Now spin the dial to select the images
you'd like to protect and press SET to protect or unprotect each image.

Of course formatting the card erases everything, even if you've protected a
file. Be careful!

I only use this feature if I want to erase all the photos on a card except for a
few. I protect them, then do ERASE ALL. I rarely do this. I copy all the files to
my computer, back them up and format the card. I do my selections on my
computer. Buy a bigger card if you have to, they're cheap today.

Rotate lets you set the rotation flag manually for any image. It doesn't actually
rotate the images, and different computer software may see these flags
differently. I leave my files unrotated and rotate them for real in iView (Action
> JPEG Rotate) later.

Print Order is for selecting what and how you want pictures printed straight
from the camera. It means you're ordering prints from within the camera! I
don't do this - I prefer to sort and select my images on my computer. I've
never seen a lab which works this way. I presume they're big in Japan, or that
I haven't been paying attention. I suspect you're asking for trouble and losing
files if you play around with all this in-camera on the memory card.

Transfer Order is also related to ordering prints. I don't use this either.

Auto Play plays a slide show on the tiny screen, or you can plug the 30D into
a TV. Digital images look crummy played on TV. I never use this.

Review Time is how long, or if, images play on the screen after they're taken.
Set it to OFF if you don't want them to play automatically. Default is 2
seconds, which is too short. I set it to 8 seconds or Hold.

AF Points lets you choose to display, during playback, the AF points that
were used to make the picture.