Q&A Troubleshooting (Continued)

LCD monitor

LCD monitor dims during motion picture recording.

●LCD monitor may dim if continuing motion picture recording for long periods.

Monitor sometimes shuts off even though power is on.

●After recording, monitor shuts off until next picture can be recorded. (Approx. 6 seconds (Max.) when recording to the built-in memory)

Brightness is unstable.

●Aperture value is set while shutter button is pressed halfway. (Does not affect recorded picture.)

Monitor flickers indoors.

●Monitor may flicker after turning on (prevents influence from fluorescent lighting).

Monitor is too bright/too dark.

●Camera set to [LCD MODE] (→19).

Black/blue/red/green dots or interference appears. Monitor looks distorted when touched.

●This is not a fault, and will not be recorded on the actual pictures, so there is no need to worry.

Date/age is not displayed.

●Current date, travel elapsed days (→53), and names and ages in [BABY] and [PET] (→46) Scene Modes are only displayed for approx. 5 sec. when the camera is turned on, after these settings are made, or after switching from Playback Mode to Recording Mode, etc. They cannot be always displayed.

Flash

No flash emitted.

●Flash set to [FORCED FLASH OFF] (→36).

●When set to [AUTO] , flash may not be emitted in certain conditions.

●Flash is disabled in the Scene Modes [SCENERY], [NIGHT SCENERY], [SUNSET], [HI-SPEED BURST], [FIREWORKS], [STARRY SKY], and [AERIAL PHOTO], and when [BURST] is used.

●No flash is emitted when recording a motion picture.

Multiple flashes are emitted.

●Red-eye reduction is active (→36). (Flashes twice to prevent eyes appearing red.)

●The Scene Mode is set to [FLASH BURST].

Playback

Pictures have been rotated.

●[ROTATE DISP.] is set to [ON].

(Automatically rotates pictures from portrait to landscape. Some pictures taken facing up or facing down may be interpreted as being portrait.)

→ Set [ROTATE DISP.] to [OFF]. (→74)

Cannot view pictures.

●Press the Playback button.

●No pictures in built-in memory or card (pictures played from card if inserted, from built-in memory if not).

●Camera set to [CATEGORY PLAY] or [FAVORITE PLAY]. → Set Playback Mode to [NORMAL PLAY] (→66).

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DMC-FP3 specifications

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