Technical Notes

Error Messages

The following table lists the error messages and other warnings that appear in the monitor and how to deal with them.

 

Display

Problem

 

Solution

 

 

 

 

(Flashes)

Clock not set.

Set clock.

 

 

 

 

12–13

WARNING ! !

Battery exhausted.

Turn camera off and replace

7, 8–9

BATTERY EXHAUSTED

battery.

 

 

 

 

 

AF●

 

Use focus lock to focus on an-

 

 

Camera cannot focus.

other subject at same distance,

16

(● flashes red)

 

then recompose picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use flash, or steady camera us-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slow shutter speed.

ing tripod, by placing camera

2, 15,

(Flashes)

Pictures may be blurred.

on level surface, or by holding

19

camera in both hands with el-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bows against torso.

 

 

 

INITIALIZING LENS

 

Wait until lens is initialized and

 

CANNOT FOCUS

Camera cannot focus.

camera has zoomed out to wid-

15

 

 

 

 

 

 

est angle.

 

 

 

 

 

WARNING!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLEASE WAIT FOR THE

 

Message

clears from

display

 

CAMERA TO FINISH

Camera turned off or button automatically

when

recording

16

RECORDING

pressed during recording.

is complete.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Write-protect switch is in “lock” Slide write-protect

to

“write”

 

MEMORY CARD IS

10

WRITE PROTECTED

position.

position.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS CARD

 

• Use approved card.

 

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CANNOT BE USED

 

 

 

• Check

that

connectors are

—

 

 

 

 

 

 

WARNING!! THIS

Error accessing memory card.

clean.

 

 

 

 

 

• Turn camera off and confirm

10–11

CARD CANNOT BE READ

 

 

that memory card is correctly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Flashes)

 

inserted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CARD IS NOT

 

Press multi selector up to high-

 

FORMATTED

 

 

Memory card has not been for- light FORMAT and press center

79,

 

 

 

 

(Flashes)

FORMAT

matted for use in camera.

to format card, or turn camera

10–11

 

off and replace card.

 

 

 

NO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Choose new image mode.

59

 

 

 

 

 

Camera in shooting mode: In- • Remove memory card and use 10–11

OUT OF MEMORY

sufficient memory to record pic-

internal memory or insert new

 

tures at current settings.

memory card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or

Camera connected to computer:

• Delete pictures.

 

 

17, 68

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delete unwanted pictures and

17,

 

 

 

 

 

Not enough memory to record in- try again.

 

 

 

 

68

 

 

 

 

 

formation need for transfer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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