The red ON/OFF (CHG) indicator flashes very slowly ( one flash at 2-second intervals).

- The temperature of the battery pack is outside the charging range. If the battery pack’s temperature is below 0 °C (32 °F), warm it before charging it; if it is above 40 °C (104 °F), let the battery pack cool down before charging it.

-Charge the battery pack in temperatures between 0 °C and 40 °C (32 °F and 104 °F).

-The battery pack is damaged. Use a different battery pack.

oappears on the screen

-The LOCK switch on the Eye-Fi card is set to prevent accidental erasure. Change the position of the LOCK switch.

-An error occurred when trying to access control data on the Eye-Fi card. Turn the camcorder off then on again. If the icon appears often, there might be a problem with the Eye-Fi card. Contact the card manufacturer’s customer care.

Picture and Sound

The screen appears too dark.

-The LCD screen was dimmed. Hold hpressed down for 2 seconds to restore the LCD screen to its previous brightness setting.

Screen displays turn on and off repeatedly.

-The battery pack is exhausted. Replace or charge the battery pack.

-Remove the battery pack and reattach it correctly.

Abnormal characters appear on the screen and the camcorder does not operate properly.

-Disconnect the power source and reconnect it after a short time. If the problem still persists, use the 68[Reset All] menu option to reset all the camcorder’s settings to default val- ues.

Video noise appears on screen.

-Keep a distance between the camcorder and devices that emit strong electromagnetic fields (plasma TVs, cellular phones, etc.).

Horizontal bands appear on the screen.

-This is a phenomenon typical of CMOS image sensors when recording under some types of fluorescent, mercury or sodium lamps. To reduce the symptoms, set the recording program to [Programmed AE] or [Shutter-Pri. AE] (073). This is not a malfunction.

No picture appears on the viewfinder.

- Pull out the viewfinder until it clicks to activate the viewfinder (029).

Viewfinder picture is blurred.

- Adjust the viewfinder with the dioptric adjustment lever (029).

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