Charging the Nickel-Metal hydride batteries (continued)

Battery remaining indicator

As the battery power decreases with use, the Battery remaining indicator displays the amount of power remaining using the following symbols.

Battery

Battery remaining

remaining

guidelines

indicator

(A full charge is 100%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sufficient power

 

 

 

 

 

 

remaining

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Battery half full

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Battery low, recording/

 

 

 

playback will stop soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change the batteries for

 

 

 

fully charged ones, or

 

 

 

charge these batteries.

Flashing

If the LCD screen is off, press the DISPLAY/ LCD ON/OFF button to turn it on.

Based on the conditions under which the camera is being used and the state of the charge, or on the environment, this information may not be correctly indicated.

When the AC adaptor is being used, the Remaining battery information is not displayed.

The POWER SAVE function

When the POWER SAVE function is set to ON, you can shoot for a longer period of time.

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Turn the Mode dial to SET UP, and set [POWER SAVE] in SETUP 2 to [ON]. The factory setting of the camera is set to [ON] (page 98).

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Set the POWER SAVE switch to ON. When the camera is shipped from the factory, this switch is set to ON.

When the POWER SAVE function is

ON

The LCD screen will be darker than it is when POWER SAVE is set to OFF. You cannot change the settings for [LCD BACKLIGHT] at this time (page 98). To make the available shooting time even longer, it is recommended that you turn off the LCD screen and use the Finder to do your shooting (page 32).

In Flash mode, the (No flash) is displayed. If you want to shoot using the flash, press v () on the control button, and select (forced flash) or Auto (page 30).

When the power turns on, the Flash mode is

normally set to (No flash).

When the flash is charging ( the Flash charge lamp blinks), the LCD screen turns

off.

In shooting still images, the focus only focuses when the shutter is pushed down halfway.

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Sony DSC-P51 Battery remaining indicator, Power Save function, Charging the Nickel-Metal hydride batteries, DSC-P71