Using A New Card; Extending The Useful Life Of The Battery - Olympus Stylus 850 SW Instruction Manual

IMAGE SIZE
K 1280 × 960
C 640 × 480
D 1920 × 1080
Movie
IMAGE SIZE
C 640 × 480
E 320 × 240

Using a new card

• If you use a non-Olympus card or a card that was used on a computer for another
application, use the [FORMAT] function to format the card.
g "MEMORY FORMAT (FORMAT) Formatting the internal memory or card" (P. 36)
The card access lamp is blinking
• An image or movie is being recorded or downloaded (when connected to a computer).
• Do not do any of the following while the card access lamp is blinking. Doing so may prevent
the image data from being saved and render the internal memory or card unusable.
• Open the battery/card compartment cover.
• Remove the battery and card.

Extending the useful life of the battery

• Performing any of the following operations when not actually taking pictures can deplete the
battery power.
• Repeatedly pressing the shutter button halfway
• Repeatedly using the zoom
• To minimize the battery consumption, set [POWER SAVE] to [ON] and turn off the camera
whenever it is not in use.
g "POWER SAVE Setting the camera to the power save mode" (P. 40)
COMPRES-
Internal memory
SION
With sound
L
23
M
43
L
75
M
122
L
14
M
27
FRAME
RATE
Internal memory
N
O
N
O
Number of storable still pictures
Without
With sound
sound
24 1560
47 2907
90 4920
164 7996
14 954
28 1827
Continuous recording length
Using a 1 GB card
8 sec.
16 sec.
19 sec.
38 sec.
Using a 1GB card
Without
sound
1640
3198
5815
10661
984
1938
10 sec.
18 min. 37 sec.
22 min. 3 sec.
29 min.
55
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