Others

You see red, green, or blue flashes when you move your eyes in the viewfinder, or when the camera is moved rapidly.

This is a characteristic of the drive system of the viewfinder of this unit, and it is not a malfunction. There will be no problem with the recorded image.

Playback

The picture being played back is not rotated, or is rotated in an unexpected direction, when displayed.

You can display the pictures without being rotated when [ROTATE DISP.] (P157) is set to [OFF].

You can rotate pictures with the [ROTATE] function. (P157)

You can only display the pictures rotated if you use a lens (P18) that supports the Direction Detection Function (P41) and [ROTATE DISP.] is set to [ON].

The picture is not played back.

There are no recorded pictures.

Did you press [(]?

Is the card inserted?

Is there a picture on the card?

Is this a picture whose file name has been changed in the PC? If it is, it cannot be played back by this unit.

Has [PLAYBACK MODE] been set for playback?

>Change to [NORMAL PLAY]. (P148)

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

Is this a non-standard picture, a picture which has been edited using a PC or a picture which was taken by another make of digital camera?

Did you remove the battery immediately after picture-taking or did you take the picture using a battery with a low remaining charge?

>Format the data to delete the pictures mentioned above. (P39)

(Other pictures will be deleted as well and it will not be possible to restore them. Therefore, check well before formatting.)

Images with different date as recorded date are played back in the Calendar Playback.

Is the clock in the camera set properly? (P30)

Images edited on a PC or images recorded on other cameras might display a different date to the recorded date during the Calendar Playback.

White round spots like soap bubbles appear on the recorded picture.

If you take a picture with the flash in a dark place or indoors, white round spots may appear on the picture caused by the flash reflecting of particles of dust in the air. This is not a malfunction.

A characteristic of this is that the number of round spots and their position differ in every picture.

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Panasonic DMC-G2K operating instructions Playback, Picture is not played back There are no recorded pictures