Information, Shooting tips and information – Olympus E-PL2 User Manual

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Shooting tips and information

The camera does not turn on even when a battery is loaded

The battery is not fully charged

Charge the battery with the charger.

The battery is temporarily unable to function because of the cold

Battery performance drops at low temperatures. Remove the battery and warm it by
putting it in your pocket for a while.

No picture is taken when the shutter button is pressed

The camera has turned off automatically

The camera automatically enters sleep mode to reduce the drain on the battery if no
operations are performed for a set period of time.

g [SLEEP] (P. 13)

If no operations are performed for a set time (5 minutes) after the camera has
entered sleep mode, the camera will turn off automatically.

The fl ash is charging

On the LCD monitor, the

#mark blinks when charging is in progress. Wait for the

blinking to stop, then press the shutter button.

Unable to focus

The camera can not focus on subjects that are too close to the camera or that are
not suited to autofocus (the AF confi rmation mark will blink in the monitor). Increase
the distance to the subject or focus on a high contrast object at the same distance
from the camera as your main subject, compose the shot, and shoot.

Subjects that are diffi cult to focus on
It may be diffi cult to focus with auto focus in the following situations.

Subject with low
contrast

Excessively bright
light in center of
frame

Subject containing
no vertical lines

Subjects at different
distances

Fast-moving subject

Subject not inside
AF area

AF confi rmation
mark is blinking.
These subjects
are not focused.

AF confi rmation
mark lights up but
the subject is not
focused.

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