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No photo is taken
when shutter-
release button is
fully pressed
• Camera is in playback mode.
• Battery is exhausted.
• Flash-ready lamp flickers: flash is charging.
• Message “Memory Card is not formatted” appears in
monitor: memory card is not formatted for use in
COOLPIX SQ.
• Message “Memory Card full” appears in monitor:
insufficient memory to record pictures at current
Image quality/size settings.
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Photos are too dark
(underexposed)
•Flash is off.
• Flash window is blocked.
• Subject is outside range of flash.
• Exposure compensation is too low.
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Photos are too
bright
(overexposed)
• Exposure compensation is too high. 45
Photos are out of
focus
• Subject was not in focus area when shutter-release
button was pressed halfway. Use focus lock.
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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 following scenes:
(Night Portrait), (Dusk/Dawn) and (Night
Landscape). Using these scenes when appropriate
can reduce noise.
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Flash does not fire
• Flash is off. Note that flash turns off automatically
when:
– (Sports), (Landscape), (Sunset), (Dusk/Dawn),
(Night Landscape), (Close up), (Museum), (Fire-
works Show), (Copy), (Panorama Assist)
–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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