The menu displayed when the mode dial is rotated to GUIDE. This menu was created for users who find normal menu operations difficult, and is separate from the normal menus and information display.

The guide menu is displayed when the mode dial is rotated to GUIDE. The top level of the menu consists of three large icons that serve as portals to basic camera operations: "Shoot," "View/delete," and "Set up" (see the "Reference" sheet for an illustration of the top-level menu). After entering the desired portal, the user progressively selects items to shoot, view, delete or set up pictures and adjust camera settings without the sense of performing a difficult task.

Instead of covering the full range of camera settings, the guide menu concentrates on basic settings and options that have in the past been the subject of many customer-support inquiries.

A Note on Terminology

The term "guide menu" is not a proper noun and appears in sentence case except in contexts where full caps are required. For example, the convention for Nikon D-SLR cameras is that the title of top-level menus be all in caps, requiring "guide menu" to be written as "GUIDE MENU" in this context. In lower levels of the menu, it appears in sentence case (as "Guide menu" where it appears sentence-initially and as "guide menu" elsewhere). Sentence case is used in help text unless in direct reference to the title of the top-level menu, where it appears all in caps, or to menu items in which "Guide" is the first word, where it appears as "Guide menu. " Title case ("Guide Menu") is used where it appears in titles in catalogues and other documents.