Turning On/Off Your Camera; How To Use The Control Button; Setting The Data And Time - Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P71 Service Manual

DSC-P71/P71M

Turning on/off your camera

POWER ON/
OFF lamp
1
, Press the POWER button.
The POWER ON/OFF lamp lights in green,
the power is on, and the lens cover opens.
When you turn on your camera for the first
time, the "CLOCK SET" screen appears
(see the next page).
To turn off the power
If you press the POWER button again, the
POWER ON/OFF lamp goes out, and the
camera turns off.
• if you turn the power on when the Mode dial is
set to , , or SCN, the lens begins to move
(DSC-P71 only). Please be careful not to touch
the lens.
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Setting the date and time
Mode dial
1
, Turn the Mode dial to
• To change values for the time and the date that
have been previously set, change the Mode dial
to SET UP, choose "CLOCK SET" in "SETUP
1" (page 97), then proceed from Step 3.
• You can also carry out this operation when the
mode dial is set to SCN,
The Auto Power Off feature
If no tasks are performed for a while*
when shooting, playing back, or
performing SET UP while using the
batteries, power is automatically shut
POWER button
off to preserve battery power.
However, in the following
circumstances, even if the battery is
being used to power the camera, the
Auto Power Off feature will not work.
• Movies are being played back
• A slide show is being shown
• There is a plug in the USB terminal
or the VIDEO OUT jack
* When POWER SAVE is set to ON:
approximately 90 seconds
When POWER SAVE is set to OFF:
approximately 3 minutes
2
, Press the POWER button.
.
The POWER lamp lights in green and the
"CLOCK SET" screen appears.
, or .
CLOCK SET
Y/M/D
M/D/Y
D/M/Y
2002 / 1 / 1 12 : 02 OK
AM
CANCEL
OK
POWER button
3
, Choose the desired order for
You can choose from "Y/M/D" (year/
month/day), "M/D/Y", and "D/M/Y".
• If the rechargeable button battery, which
provides the power for saving the time data,
ever loses its charge (page 99), the "CLOCK
SET" screen automatically reappears. If this
happens, reset the date and time by following
the above procedure, starting from Step 3.
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How to use the
control button
0EV
EV WB
AUTO
WHITE BAL
To change the current settings of the
camera, bring up the menu or SET UP on
the LCD screen (page 55), and use the
control button to make the changes.
For each item, press v/V/b/B to select the
desired value, then press the center z or
b/B to make the setting.
•
(Spot light-metering) is not displayed on
the menu of the DSC-P31 (page 61).
CLOCK SET Y/M/D
M/D/Y
D/M/Y
2002 / / 1 12 : 02
1
AM
CANCEL
OK
the date, the month and the
year using v/V on the control
button, then push the center z.
0EV
ISO
ISO
OK
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