Others

4:The LCD monitor is too bright or dark.

Adjust the brightness of the screen. (P19)

Is the power LCD function or high angle mode activated?

5:Black, red, blue and green dots appear on the LCD monitor.

These pixels do not affect the recorded pictures.

This is not a malfunction.

6:Noise appears on the LCD monitor.

In dark places, noise may appear to maintain the brightness of the LCD monitor.

This does not affect the pictures you are recording.

Flash

1:The flash is not activated.

Is the flash setting set to Forced OFF

[ ]?

– Change the flash setting. (P34)

The flash is not activated when motion picture mode [ ] (P51), [SCENERY] (P45), [NIGHT SCENERY] (P45),

[SUNSET] (P47), [HIGH SENS.] (P48), [STARRY SKY] (P48), [FIREWORKS] (P49) or [AERIAL PHOTO] (P49) in scene mode is selected.

2:The flash is activated 2 times.

When you select red-eye reduction (P35), the flash is activated once before the actual recording to reduce the red-eye phenomenon (eyes of the subject appearing red in the picture) and then activated again for the actual recording.

Playback

1:The picture being played back is rotated and displayed in an unexpected direction.

The camera has a function that automatically rotates the display of pictures recorded holding the camera vertically. (If you take pictures when aiming the camera up or down, the camera may recognize that it is being held vertically.)

You can display the pictures without being rotated when [ROTATE DISP.] (P74) is set to [OFF].

You can rotate pictures with the [ROTATE] function. (P74)

2:The picture is not played back.

Is the mode dial set to playback [ ]?

Is there a picture on the built-in memory or the card?

The pictures on the built-in memory appears when a card is not inserted. The picture data on the card appears when a card is inserted. (P13)

3:The folder number and the file number are displayed as [—] and the screen turns black.

Is the picture edited with a PC or recorded with a digital camera from another manufacturer?

This may also happen if the battery is removed immediately after recording or if recording with a exhausted battery.

Format the data to delete the pictures mentioned above. (P84) (Formatting irretrievably deletes all data including the other pictures. Check the data carefully before formatting.)

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