Troubleshooting Guide

The battery becomes exhausted quickly.

Use a fully-charged battery pack (p.32).

The rechargeable battery pack performance will degrade over repeated use. Purchase a new one.

The number of possible shots will decrease with any of the following operations:

Pressing the shutter button halfway for a prolonged period. (Often activating only the AF without taking a picture.)

Using the lens’ Image Stabilizer.

You shoot movies for prolonged periods.

At low temperatures, the number of possible shots decreases (p.39).

The LCD monitor turns off by itself.

The power-saving function is turning off the LCD monitor. Press any camera button or tap the LCD monitor to turn it on again.

You can change the time until the monitor turns off automatically with the [52: Power saving]’s [L D auto off] setting.

The camera turns off by itself.

The power-saving function is turning off the camera. If you do not want auto power off to take effect, set [52: Power saving]’s [Camera auto off] to [Disable] (p.206).

There is a noise when the power is turned ON/OFF (with an EF-M lens attached).

When you turn off the camera, the lens aperture stops down to prevent light from entering the camera. This is to protect the camera’s internal components. When you set the power to <1> or <2>, the aperture makes a small noise as it opens or closes.

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