Turning On Power for the First Time

The first time you load a battery into the camera, a screen appears for configuring screen text language, date, and time settings. Use the procedure under “Configuring Display Language, Date, and Time Settings” (page 12) to configure the settings correctly.

IMPORTANT!

•Failure to set the date and time will cause the wrong date and time data to be recorded with images.

•Leaving the camera for about one day with no power supplied will cause the date and time settings to be cleared. You will have to re-configure the settings after power is restored. The following conditions will result in no power being supplied to the camera.

–Battery not loaded or dead battery

–Battery not loaded or dead battery with the camera on the cradle, but without the cradle plugged into a power outlet

•If you make a mistake when configuring the language, date, and time settings, you can change the settings (pages 187, 191).

■Battery Power Conservation Features

The camera is equipped with two features for conserving battery power, as described below.

Feature

Description

Settings

Name

 

 

 

In the REC mode, the monitor screen

 

 

turns off (goes into a sleep state) if no

30 sec,

 

operation is preformed for a preset

 

1 min,

Sleep

amount of time. Press any button to

2 min,

 

turn the monitor screen back on.

 

Off

 

Note that the Sleep feature does not

 

 

 

operate in the PLAY mode.

 

 

 

 

Auto Power

Power it turned off if no operation is

2 min,

performed for a preset amount of

Off

time.

5 min

 

 

 

 

 

1.Press [MENU].

2.Use [W] and [X] to select the “Set Up” tab.

3.Use [S] and [T] to select the item you want to configure (“Sleep” or “Auto Power Off”) and then press [X].

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