Troubleshooting

Problem

Cause/Solution

A

 

When taking pictures with V(auto with red-

 

 

eye reduction) or fill flash with slow sync and

 

 

red-eye reduction in Night portrait scene

 

Unexpected results when flash

mode, In-Camera Red Eye Fix may be applied to

 

set to V(auto with red-eye

areas not affected by red-eye. Use any scene

30, 55

reduction).

mode other than Night portrait, and change

 

 

the flash mode to any setting other than V

 

 

(auto with red-eye reduction) and try taking a

 

 

picture again.

 

 

 

 

 

• In some shooting conditions, facial skin tones

65

Skin tones are not softened.

may not be smoothed.

 

• Use Skin softening in the playback menu for

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images containing four or more faces.

 

 

 

 

 

It may take more time to save images in the

 

 

following situations.

 

 

• When the noise reduction function is in

31

Saving images takes time.

operation

 

• When the flash mode is set to V(auto with

31

 

 

red-eye reduction)

 

 

• When the skin softening function is applied

54, 55,

 

while shooting

66

Playback

Problem

Cause/Solution

A

 

• File or folder was overwritten or renamed by

–

 

computer or other make of camera.

 

File cannot be played back.

• The COOLPIX S5100 is not able to play back

106

 

movies recorded with another make or model

 

 

of digital camera.

 

 

Playback zoom cannot be used with movies,

 

Cannot zoom in on image.

small pictures, or images that have been

–

 

cropped to a size of 320 × 240 or smaller.

 

 

• Voice memos cannot be attached to movies.

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Cannot record or play back

• Voice memos cannot be attached to images

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captured with other cameras. Voice memos

 

voice memos.

 

attached to images using another camera

 

 

 

 

cannot be played back on this camera.

 

Index and Notes Technical

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