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Troubleshooting

If you put the menu back to the settings at the time of purchase, the conditions may be improved. Carry out the [RESET] in the setup menu. (P21)

Conditions

Causes/Remedies

The camera will not turn

Is the battery inserted correctly? Check the direction of the

on.

battery.

 

 

 

Is the battery sufficiently charged?

 

Use a battery that has been sufficiently charged.

 

 

The picture is not

Are the power save mode (P20) or economy mode (P21)

displayed on the LCD

activated? Press the shutter button halfway to disactive these

monitor.

modes.

 

 

 

Is the battery charge insufficient to operate the camera? Use

 

a battery that has been sufficiently charged.

 

 

 

Is the built-in flash charging? While the flash is being

 

charged in economy mode, the LCD monitor is off.

 

 

The brightness of the

This phenomenon appears when pressing the shutter button

screen becomes dark or

halfway to set the aperture value and does not affect the

bright for a moment.

recorded pictures.

 

 

The picture cannot be

Is the card inserted?

recorded.

 

Is the mode dial correctly set?

 

 

 

Is there any memory capacity left on the card?

 

Before recording, delete some pictures.

 

 

The screen is too bright

Adjust the brightness of the screen. (P20)

or dark.

 

Is the Power LCD function activated? (P24)

 

 

Flash is not activated.

Is the flash mode set to Forced OFF? Change the flash

 

mode. (P36)

 

 

 

The flash is not activated when [SCENERY],

 

[NIGHT SCENERY], or [FIREWORKS] in scene mode is

 

selected.

 

 

The flash is activated

The first flash is activated for red-eye prevention on the

2 times.

subject (red-eye phenomenon). 1 second after, the flash is

 

activated again for recording.

Unreadable language Select [ ] icon on the [SETUP] menu to set the desired was selected by mistake. language.

The subject is not

The focus range varies depending on the recording mode.

focused properly.

Rotate the mode dial to set to the proper mode for the

 

distance to the subject.

 

 

 

Is the subject out of the focus range? (P29)

 

 

 

When you cannot focus on the subject even if you tried many

 

times, turn the camera off once and turn it on again.

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