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Color Status Meaning
■Viewfinder Lamp Display
Green
Lit
Flashing
Orange
Lit
Flashing
Red
Flashing
Ready to shoot
AF/AE in progress or camera shake
warning. Recording to SmartMedia
(the next picture can be taken)
Flash charging
●SmartMedia warning
No SmartMedia loaded,
SmartMedia not formatted,
incorrect format, write-protect
sticker used, SmartMedia full,
SmartMedia error
●Battery charging error
●Lens operation error
✽When the LCD monitor is
switched on, details of the
warning are displayed on the
monitor (➡P.102).
Image being recorded onto the
SmartMedia (the next picture
cannot be taken)
Though the FinePix40i uses an accurate
autofocus mechanism, it may have difficulty
focusing or not be able to focus at all for the
types of subject and situation listed below. In
such cases, the image may be out of focus.
●Very shiny subjects such as a mirror or car
body.
●Subjects photographed through glass.
●Subjects that do not reflect well, such as
hair or fur.
●Subjects with no substance, such as
smoke or flames.
●When the subject is distant and dark.
●When there is very little contrast between
the subject and the background (such as
white walls or subjects dressed in the
same color as the background).
●When there are objects in front of or
behind the subject (such as an animal in a
cage or a person in front of a tree).
● Subjects moving at high speed.

◆Subjects Not Suitable for Autofocus◆

TAKING PICTURES (AUTO MODE)
Press the shutter button down half way. The
image is focused when the AF frame on the LCD
monitor becomes smaller and the shutter speed
and aperture setting appear (and the green
viewfinder lamp stops blinking and remains lit).
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When you press the shutter button down halfway,
the video image on the LCD monitor freezes briefly.
However, this is not the image that is recorded.
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If it is too dark for the camera to focus, move at least
1.5 m (4.8 ft.) away from your subject before taking
the picture.
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To take the picture, press the shutter button
down fully without lifting your finger off it. The
camera beeps and takes the picture, and the
data is then recorded.
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If you press the shutter button down fully in one motion,
the shot is taken without the AF frame changing.
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When you take a picture, the viewfinder lamp lights
orange (camera not ready) before switching back to green
to indicate that the camera is again ready for shooting.
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The LCD monitor may go dark briefly. This is normal
and does not indicate a fault.
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The viewfinder lamp flashes orange while the flash is
charging.
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Since the amount of image data recorded is not fixed
and varies depending on the subject (level of image
detail, etc.), the number of available shots may not
decrease after the image is recorded, or may
decrease by 2.
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See P.102 for information on the warning displays.
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Beep
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