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benefit to using the lower speeds – the amount of image noise will be the
same as for that of ISO 100.

TIP: Conventional wisdom used to say that these “less sensitive” ISO ratings (ISO
50, 64, and 80 in this case) had a penalty of slightly lower dynamic range. While
that may have been meaningfully true at one time, it’s certainly not meaningful
now, as evidenced in this dynamic range vs. ISO measurement done by
DxOMark.com: http://bit.ly/10x8GlG

3.6 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW
ABOUT PLAYBACK MODE

Before we get into the playback menus and their functions, here are some
things you can do while the image is playing back that you might not have
been aware of.
 The “C” button provides a shortcut to the “delete this image (or
movie)” menu item.
 You can zoom into an image to examine it closely using the AF/MF
button to the right of the Movie button. The rear control dial lets you
zoom in and out in this mode.
 When examining images closely like this (zoomed in), you can use the
front control wheel to examine similar areas of adjacent images (to see
which of the series of shots is the sharpest, for example).
 The DISPlay button will alternate between Full-screen with annotations
(salient data about that shot like time, date, exposure info, etc), full
screen without annotations, and histogram view. Go ahead; try it!
 Using the zoom control to zoom OUT all the way takes you into and
out of Index mode. MENU  1  Image Index lets you choose
between 9 and 25 images. Selecting any image and pressing the center
button of the control wheel takes you back to play mode.
 The Fn button invokes the “Send to Smartphone” function where it can
send a downsized image to your smartphone via WiFi.
 If you have MENU  1  Image Rotation set to AUTO, you can
rotate the image by rotating the camera. In any other mode, if you’re
really too lazy to rotate the camera 90 degrees you can rotate the image