Okay thanks! The instructions are honestly a little confusing as I thought that I had to do the firmware updating to get it working. Anyway, I did as you said, pressing the shortcut button and some things pop up on the screen. At the top in red, a number and the letter M (looks like it's counting space on the card) just to the right of that is a green bar with percentage (battery power, I'm guessing) time on the top right, something that says "opt: 31degrees" On the bottom I don't see the word alt in red, but a thin red line that goes across the bottom left half of the screen. I press the menu button but I don't see any additional menus or features that are available. So I don't think it's working properly. I'm going to try to run through the installation all over again and see if that helps. STICK said that my card was okay and didn't need formatting or anything, but I might just try to reformat it and start totally from scratch and see if that helps.
Okay, silly me, I just realized I was only pressing the video record button, not the shortcut button. Pressing video record brought the extra info up on my screen, and I assumed this was where I had to press menu, because you mentioned it could be activated by the video button. I had to press the shortcut button, as you mentioned. Now I'm seeing extra menus! Thank you! I'm going to play with this stuff and explore!
I noticed there are extra scripts and things I can download. My plan is to take longer exposure shots of the night sky. I have an intervalometer I bought, but if I can instead get that feature right in camera it will save extra equipment and cables!
Any suggestions anyone can give for scripts or features I should consider for a night sky time-lapse and/or night sky long-exposure and stacking of photos would be appreciated!
Thanks!