■Battery Life and Number of Images between Charges

See page 291 for details.

■Checking Remaining Battery Power

As battery power is consumed, a battery indicator on the monitor screen indicates remaining power as shown below.

Remaining

• When you do not need to use the flash, select “

 

” (flash off)

Power

High Low

for the flash setting (page 75).

• Enable the Auto Power Off and the Sleep features to protect

against wasting battery power when you forget to turn off the

camera (page 45).

Battery

Indicator

Indicator

Light

 

 

 

 

Color

 

 

Orange

 

Red

 

Red

 

 

 

 

blue

 

 

 

 

“ ” indicates that battery power is low. Charge the battery as soon as possible.

Recording is not possible when “ ” is indicated. Charge the battery immediately.

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