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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.
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Flash
1: The flash is not fired.
• 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 fired 2 times.
• When you select red-eye reduction
(P35), the flash is fired once before the
actual recording to reduce the red-eye
phenomenon (eyes of the subject
appearing red in the picture) and then
fired again for the actual recording.
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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 an 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.)
