2.8The buttons

The back is equipped with four buttons, these buttons will take you through all functions of the back, and the buttons will change function to match the menu shown on the display. Read more on the menus in the chapter regarding this.

2.9LED lights

When the camera is powered up you will see a short blink in the green and red LED’s in the right hand side of the display and you will hear a ready beep. The lights will turn off immediately. This is an indication that the camera is ready to capture.

Green: When capturing an image the green LED is blinking rapidly to indicates that the P+ back is busy.

Steady green light indicates that the backlight of the display is dimmed but the camera is still ready to shoot.

(The time before this happens can be set in the P+ back and is described later under “Menu mode”)

RED: If the red LED is on this indicates that the P+ back is writing to the storage media thereof the buffer is not emptied.

The red LED indicator located just beside the CF-cardslot under the cover in the left side is assigned to only indicate CF card activity.

When the red CF-slot LED is on do not remove the card from the card slot! This can damage the formatting of the card, resulting images or data might be lost or corrupted.

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Phase One 645 AF manual Buttons, LED lights

645 AF specifications

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