Canon 4374B001 Instruction Manual page 175

The red ON/OFF (CHG) indicator flashes very slowly (
second intervals).
- The temperature of the battery pack is outside the charging range. If the battery pack's tem-
perature is below 0 °C, warm it before charging it; if it is above 40 °C, let the battery pack
cool down before charging it.
- Charge the battery pack in temperatures between 0 °C and 40 °C.
- The battery pack is damaged. Use a different battery pack.
o appears on the screen
- The LOCK switch on the Eye-Fi card is set to prevent accidental erasure. Change the position
of the LOCK switch.
- An error occurred when trying to access control data on the Eye-Fi card. Turn the camcorder
off then on again. If the icon appears often, there might be a problem with the Eye-Fi card.
Contact the card manufacturer's customer care.
Picture and Sound
The screen appears too dark.
- The LCD screen was dimmed. Hold h pressed down for 2 seconds to restore the LCD
screen to its previous brightness setting.
Screen displays turn on and off repeatedly.
- The battery pack is exhausted. Replace or charge the battery pack.
- Remove the battery pack and reattach it correctly.
Abnormal characters appear on the screen and the camcorder does not operate properly.
- Disconnect the power source and reconnect it after a short time. If the problem still persists,
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use the 6
ues.
Video noise appears on screen.
- Keep a distance between the camcorder and devices that emit strong electromagnetic fields
(plasma TVs, cellular phones, etc.).
Horizontal bands appear on the screen.
- This is a phenomenon typical of CMOS image sensors when recording under some types of
fluorescent, mercury or sodium lamps. To reduce the symptoms, set the recording program to
[Programmed AE] or [Shutter-Pri. AE] (0 68). This is not a malfunction.
b No picture appears on the viewfinder.
- Pull out the viewfinder until it clicks to activate the viewfinder (0 25).
b Viewfinder picture is blurred.
- Adjust the viewfinder with the dioptric adjustment lever (0 25).
[Reset All] menu option to reset all the camcorder's settings to default val-
one flash at 2-
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