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Technical Notes
No picture is taken
when shutter-
release button is
pressed
• Camera is in Playback mode.
• Battery is exhausted.
• Flash lamp blinks: flash is charging.
• Message “CARD IS NOT FORMATTED” appears in monitor: memory
card is not formatted for use in camera.
• Message “MEMORY CARD IS WRITE PROTECTED.” appears in mon-
itor: memory card is locked.
• Message “OUT OF MEMORY” appears on monitor: insufficient
memory to record picture at current Image quality/size setting.
P.27
P.24
P.29
P.21,
P.106
P.21
P.113
Pictures are
too dark
(underexposed)
• Flash is off.
• Flash window is blocked.
• Subject is outside range of flash.
• Exposure compensation is too low.
P.28
P.25
P.28
P.32
Pictures are
too bright
(overexposed)
• Exposure compensation is too high. P.32
Pictures are out of
focus
• Subject was not in focus area when shutter-release button was
pressed halfway.
• AF indicator flashes red: camera unable to focus.
• AF-assist illuminator does not light when lighting is poor. Select
Auto in the AF assist option.
P.26
P.26
P.104
Randomly-spaced,
brightly-colored pix-
els (“noise”) appear
in image
• Shutter speed is too slow. Noise can be reduced by:
– Using flash
– Selecting D NIGHT PORTRAIT, G NIGHT LANDSCAPE or
J DUSK/DAWN in b (scene) mode. (In these modes, Noise
reduction works automatically when shutter speed is slow. Select
an appropriate mode according to your shooting condition.)
P.28
P.35,
P.36,
P.37
Bright specks in pic-
ture
• Flash is reflecting from particles in air. Turn flash off or zoom in.
P.28,
P.25
Flash does not fire
• Flash is off. Note that flash turns off automatically when:
– The mode dial is set to b (scene) mode with E LANDSCAPE,
G NIGHT LANDSCAPE, I SUNSET, J DUSK/DAWN,
K FIREWORKS SHOW, N MUSEUM or P SPORTS selected in
the Scene menu.
– The mode dial is set to S (Except when recording a time-lapse
movie).
– Continuous (P.80) is set to Continuous, Multi-shot 16,
Ultra HS, or 5 shot buffer in M or E mode.
– BSS is On in M or E mode.
– AUTO BRACKETING is set to Auto bracketing in M or E
mode.
P.28
P.33
P.58
P.80
P.82
P.83
Colors are unnatural • White balance does not match light source. P.46
Picture or voice
memo cannot be
played back
• Picture or voice memo has been overwritten or renamed by com-
puter or by another model of camera.
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