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Troubleshooting
Technical Notes and Index
Electronically Controlled Cameras
In extremely rare instances, unusual characters may appear in the monitor and the
camera may stop functioning. In most cases, this phenomenon is caused by a
strong external static charge. Turn the camera off, remove and replace the battery,
then turn the camera on again. In the event of continued malfunction, contact
your retailer or Nikon-authorized service representative. Note that disconnecting
the power source as described above may result in the loss of any data not saved
to internal memory or the memory card at the time the problem occurred. Data
already saved will not be affected.
Date and time of
recording are not correct.
• If camera clock has not been set, “Date not set”
indicator blinks with shooting and movie recording.
Images and movies saved before clock is set are
dated “00/00/0000 00:00” or “01/01/2011 00:00”
respectively. Set the correct time and date from the
Time zone and date option in the setup menu.
• Check camera clock regularly against more accurate
timepieces and reset as required.
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No indicators displayed
in monitor.
Hide info is selected for Photo info.
Select Show info.
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Print date not available. Camera clock has not been set.
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Date not imprinted on
images even when Print
date is enabled.
• The current shooting mode is one that does not
support Print date.
• The date cannot be imprinted on movies.
• The date cannot be imprinted on still images saved
during movie recording.
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Screen for setting time
zone and date is
displayed when camera
is turned on.
Clock battery is exhausted; all settings were restored to
their default values.
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Camera settings reset.
Monitor turns off, and
the power-on lamp
blinks rapidly.
Battery temperature is high. Turn off camera and allow
battery to cool down before resuming use. After the
lamp blinks for three minutes, the camera will turn off
automatically. Pressing the power switch also turns off
the camera.
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Camera becomes hot.
The camera may become hot when shooting movies
for an extended period of time or when the camera is
used in a hot area; this is not a malfunction.
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Problem Cause/Solution
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