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Technical Notes
Colors are unnatural • White balance does not match light source. 64
No menu is displayed
when MENU button
is pressed
•Camera is in movie mode. 52
Photos are blurred
•Camera shook during shot. Blurring caused
by camera shake can be reduced by:
–Using the flash
–Using the Best-Shot Selector (BSS)
–Using the self-timer
–Using a tripod
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67
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Randomly-spaced
bright pixels
(“noise”) appear in
image
•Shutter speed too slow. Use the flash.
•Noise reduction, which helps reduce noise at
slow shutter speeds, is available in the follow-
ing scenes: Night Portrait and Night Land-
scape. Using these scenes when appropriate
can reduce noise.
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38,
39
Flash does not fire
•Flash is off. Note that flash turns off auto-
matically when:
–Landscape, Sunset, Night Landscape,
Museum, or Fireworks Show is selected
in scene mode
–Camera is in movie mode
–Continuous or Multi-Shot 16 is selected in
the CONTINUOUS menu ( mode only)
–BSS is on ( mode only)
•Battery level is low.
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38,
39
52
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67
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Problem Possible cause