Camera Menus

The X1 has a refreshingly sparse menu for a modern camera, which operates in an admirably consistent fashion. Leica has clearly decided this is a machine for taking pictures and nothing else, so you won't find fripperies like specially-commissioned music for your slide shows, for example. Or, indeed, slide shows at all.

All of the menu options are presented as a single scrolling list of just 34 options, that jumps back to the start when you reach the end. You can use the manual focus dial to scroll a page at a time.	Sub-menus are accessed by pressing the right key on the 4-way controller, and pop up on the right hand side of the screen.

Option	Values / Actions	Notes
Resolution	• 12.2 M  • 7 M  • 3 M  • 1.8 M	Set the size of the recorded JPEG
Compression	• JPG Super fine  • JPG fine  • DNG + JPG S. fine  • DNG + JPG fine	Raw files are recorded in Adobe's open-standard DNG format. You can't record RAW only, but must always save a JPEG too.
Auto ISO Settings	• Slowest speed 1/30 1/15 1/8  • Max ISO 400 800 1600 3200	Sets the shutter speed at which the camera will start increasing the ISO Sets the maximum permissible ISO
Metering Mode	• Intelligent multiple  • Center weighted  • Spot
Continuous	• High  • Low	3 fps 2 fps
AF Assist Lamp	• On  • Off
MF Assist	• On  • Off	Shows center of frame magnified during manual focus
Image Stabilization	• On  • Off	Only functions when you are not recording DNG files
Preset Film	• Standard  • Vivid  • Natural  • B & W Natural  • B & W High Contrast
Sharpening	• Low  • Medium Low  • Standard  • Medium High  • High	'Sharpening', 'Contrast' and 'Saturation' behave as sub-menus of 'Preset Film'. Changes are saved individually for each Preset Film type, and do not affect the others. Saturation, not surprisingly, is grayed out in B & W film modes.
Saturation	• Low  • Medium Low  • Standard  • Medium High  • High
Contrast	• Low  • Medium Low  • Standard  • Medium High  • High
Ext Viewfinder	• On  • Off	Allows LCD to be turned off completely for shooting with optical viewfinder
Flash Sync	• Start of Exp.  • End of exposure
Monitor Brightness	• Low  • Medium Low  • Standard  • Medium High  • High
Rec Histogram	• On  • Off
Play Histogram	• Std w/o clipping  • Std with clipping  • RGB w/o clipping  • RGB with clipping
Reset Image Numbering	• No  • Yes
Auto Review	• Duration Off 1 second 3 seconds 5 seconds Hold  • Histogram On Off
Auto Power Off	• 2 Minutes  • 5 Minutes  • 10 Minutes
Auto LCD Off	• 30 Seconds  • 1 Minute
Color Management	• sRGB  • Adobe RGB
Date	• Setting Year Month Day  • Sequence Day/Month/Year Month/Day/Year Year/Month/Day
Time	• Setting hours minutes  • View 12 Hours 24 Hours
Shutter Volume	• Off  • Low  • High
Acoustic Signal	• Volume Off Low High  • Keyclick On Off  • SD Card Full On Off
Language	• English  • German  • French  • Italian  • Spanish  • Japanese  • Simplified Chinese  • Traditional Chinese  • Korean  • Russian
Auto Rotate Display	• On  • Off
HDMI	• 1080i  • 720p  • 480p	For image playback only
Protect	• Protect / Unprotect  • Exit	Enters playback mode and allows protection of images against deletion
Copy	• No  • Yes	Allows copying of images from built-in memory to SD Card
Format	• No  • Yes	Formats SD card or internal memory
Firmware Version	FW Version no. display
User Profile	• Profile 1  • Profile 2  • Profile 3  • Factory Setting  • Save User Profile Save as 1 Save as 2 Save as 3	Recall previously-saved settings profiles Reset to factory defaults Save current setting to Profile 1, 2 or 3