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Usingthe Camera
7Press the Shutter button down halfway. Focusing is
complete when the AF frame on the LCD monitorshrinks and the viewfinder lamp (green) stopsblinking and remains lit.
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If “{” appears on the LCD monitor, the camera cannot focus.
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Pressing the shutter button down halfway, the image on the
LCD monitor freezes briefly. However, this is not the recorded
image.
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If “{” appears on the LCD monitor,(e.g. the shot is too dark
for the camera to focus), try standing about 2 m (6.6 ft.) from
your subject to take the picture.

SHOOTING STILL IMAGES (aAUTO MODE)

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY MODE
8To take the picture, press the Shutter button down
fully without lifting your finger off it. The camera beepsand takes the picture, and the data is then recorded.
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There is a slight delay between the Shutter button being
pressed and the shot being taken. If necessary, play back the
shot to check the image.
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Pressing the Shutter button down fully in one motion, the shot
is taken without the AF frame changing.
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When you take the shot, the viewfinder lamp lights orange
(shooting disabled). The viewfinder lamp then changes to
green to indicate that the next picture can be taken.
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The viewfinder lamp blinks orange while the flash is charging.
If the LCD monitor is switched on, the screen goes dark. This
is normal and does not indicate a fault.
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See P.72-73 for information on the warning displays.
Beep
◆Subjects Not Suitable for Autofocus ◆
Though the FinePix A405 uses an accurate autofocus mechanism, it may have difficulty focusing or notbe able to focus at all for the types of subjects and situations listed below. In such cases, the imagemay be out of focus.hVery shiny subjects such as a mirror or car bodyhSubjects photographed through glasshSubjects that do not reflect well, such as hair or furhSubjects with no substance, such as smoke orflameshWhen the subject is darkhWhen there is very little contrast between thesubject and the background (such as white wallsor subjects dressed in the same color as thebackground)hSubjects moving at high speedhWhen something other than your subject is closeto the AF frame, has contrasting areas of light anddark and is either closer or further away than yoursubject (as when you photograph someoneagainst a background with strongly contrastingelements)For subjects of this type, use AF/AE lock (➡P.22).■Viewfinder Lamp DisplayDisplay Status
Lit green Ready to shoot
Blinking green AF/AE in progress, camera shake warning or AF warning (Ready to shoot)
Blinking green and
orange alternately
Recording to xD-Picture Card(Ready to shoot)
Lit orange Recording to xD-Picture Card(Not ready)
Blinking orange Flash charging (Flash will not fire)
Blinking green
(1-second intervals)
Camera in Power Save mode (➡P.47)
Blinking red hxD-Picture CardWarnings
No card loaded, card not formatted, incorrect format, card full, xD-Picture Carderror
hLens operation error
✽When the LCD monitor is switched on, more detailed warning messages are displayed (➡P.72-73).
NUMBER OF AVAILABLE FRAMES
The number of available frames in this card isdisplayed on the screen.
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See P.30 for information on changing the quality mode.
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The default quality mode “y” set at shipment is 1.
■Standard number of frames per xD-Picture Card
The table below shows the standard number of available frames for a new xD-Picture Cardformatted on the camera. The
larger the xD-Picture Card capacity, the greater the divergence between the actual number of available frames and the
number shown here. Also, because the amount of data recorded for a shot varies depending on the subject, in some cases
the number of shots may decrease by 2 or may remain the same. As a result, the actual number of recordable shots may
either decrease or increase.
Quality mode
DPC-16 (16 MB)
DPC-32 (32 MB)
DPC-64 (64 MB)
DPC-128 (128 MB)
DPC-256 (256 MB)
Number of recorded pixels
44M 22M 11M `0.3M
15
31
64
128
257
25
50
101
204
409
33
68
137
275
550
122
247
497
997
1997
DPC-512 (512 MB) 515 818 1101 3993
2304 ×1728 1600 ×1200 1280 ×960 640 ×480