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| Getting Acquainted |
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The camera features a |
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| Battery Handling Precautions |
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To load batteries |
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| important precautions to avoid problems with batteries. | ||||
Be sure that camera power is turned off whenever loading or replac- |
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ing batteries. |
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| • Use only LR6 | |
1. | Slide the | battery | compartment |
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| FR6 type lithium dry cell batteries |
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| lock on the bottom of the camera |
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| with this camera. Never mix old bat- | ||
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| teries with new ones. Failure to do so | |||
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| 1, and swing open | the battery |
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| batteries, creating the danger of fire | |||
| compartment | cover as | indicated |
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| by arrow | 2. |
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| Caution | • Always make sure that the positive | ||
2. Insert four batteries and close the |
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| battery compartment cover. |
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| teries are facing correctly, as noted | ||
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| by the markings on the camera itself. |
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| sult in bursting or leaking of batteries, | |
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| creating the danger of personal injury |
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| or soiling of objects nearby. |
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| • Remove batteries from the camera if you do not plan to use it for | |
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| more than two weeks. |
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| • Never recharge batteries, never allow direct connection between | |
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| two ends of a battery, and never try to take batteries apart. | |
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| Alkaline | or | Lithium | batteries. Never use | • Do not expose batteries to direct heat or dispose of them by burn- | ||
manganese batteries (see precautions on the next page). |
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| ing. Doing so can create the danger of explosion. | ||||||
| • Make sure that the positive |
| + and negative | - ends of the | • Never mix batteries of different types. | ||||
| batteries are facing correctly. |
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•Press down on the battery compartment cover at the point
marked A in the above illustration until the cover locks into place with a click.
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• | Dead batteries are susceptible to leakage, which can cause serious | Flash Memory | |||
| damage to your camera. Remove batteries | from the camera as | The camera features flash memory for storage of images. Flash | ||
| soon as you notice they are dead. |
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| memory does not require electrical power to store data, so image | |||
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• | The batteries that power this camera normally become warm when | data is retained in memory even when you turn camera power off. If | |||
| they lose power. This does not indicate malfunction. | batteries go dead, simply load a set of new batteries or connect the | |||
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| AC adaptor and you will be able to view images in camera memory. | ||
Standard Battery Life |
| Auto Power Off | |||
The battery life reference values given below indicate the amount of | |||||
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time at standard temperature (25 | ° C) until power automatically turns | Power automatically turns off whenever you do not perform any cam- | |||
off due to battery failure. They do not guarantee that batteries will | era operation for a period of time. Power turns off after about two | ||||
perform the amount of service indicated. Battery life is reduced by low | minutes in the Record Mode or after about five minutes in the Play- | ||||
temperatures and continued use. |
| back Mode. | |||
LR6 (AM3) |
| • To restore power, simply slide the POWER switch to the right as | |||
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| Approximately 130 minutes continuous operation |
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Recording for about 96 images (one image per minute)
FR6
Approximately 220 minutes continuous operation
Recording for about 180 images (one image per minute)
Low Battery Indicator |
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| The Auto Power Off function does not operate under the following | |||
The low battery indicator ( | ) appears in the center | of the LCD | |||
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whenever remaining battery power drops below a certain level. It tells |
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| • During Auto Play (page 38) | ||||
you that power will soon turn off automatically if you continue using |
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| • | When operations are being performed on a computer connected to | |||
the camera without replacing batteries. Be sure to replace all four |
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batteries with a fresh set of new ones. |
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| the camera via the camera’s DIGITAL terminal. | |
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| • | Whenever the AC adaptor is connected to the camera. |
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