Pentax K-500 Operating Guide

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efore Using Your Camera

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Status screen

The settings for shooting with the viewfinder are displayed. 

(All items are displayed here for explanatory purposes. The actual display may differ.) 

1 Capture mode (p.86)
2 AE Lock (p.100)
3 GPS positioning status
4 Custom Image (p.161)
5 HDR Capture (p.156)/

Digital Filter (p.165)

6 Focus mode (p.105)
7 AE Metering (p.101)
8 Shake Reduction (p.120)
9 Battery level (p.51)
10 Front/rear e-dial guide
11 Shutter speed
12 Aperture value
13 Sensitivity (p.91)
14 EV Compensation (p.96)/

Exposure Bracketing (p.97)

15 EV bar scale

16 Sensitivity (p.91)
17 Flash Mode (p.70)
18 AF point (p.108)
19 Drive Mode (p.78)
20 White Balance (p.149)
21 Flash Exposure 

Compensation (p.72)

22 White Balance fine-tuning (p.150)
23 Eye-Fi communication 

status (p.236)

24 Number of shots during Interval 

Shooting or Multi-exposure

25 File Format (p.147)
26 JPEG Recorded Pixels (p.148)
27 JPEG Quality (p.148)
28 Number of recordable still pictures/ 

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 button guide

* Indicator 3 appears only when the optional GPS unit is attached to the camera 

and is operating. (p.280)

* Indicator 23 appears only when the Eye-Fi card is in use. M indicates that 

Eye-Fi communication is in standby mode, L indicates that Eye-Fi is not 

connected, and the icon is animated during Eye-Fi communication.

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The status screen will disappear if no operations are made within 30 seconds, 

and will also disappear after 2 seconds, immediately after shooting. 

Press the M button to display it again. 

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