Shooting – Olympus C-370 ZOOM User Manual

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Troubleshooting

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Shooting

Possible cause

Corrective action

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No picture is taken when the shutter button is pressed.
The batteries are
exhausted.

Replace the batteries with new ones.

P.15

The camera is in the
playback mode.

Press

or the shutter button to switch to

the shooting mode.

P.25

The power is off.

Turn on the camera.

P.24

The flash has not
finished charging.

Release your finger from the shutter button, and
wait until the

mark stops blinking. Press the

shutter button again.

P.50

The internal memory
or card is full.

Erase unwanted pictures or insert a new card.
Before erasing, download important images to a PC.

P.74,

75, 78

The battery ran out of
power during shooting or
while the images were
being written to the internal
memory or the card. (The
monitor goes off.)

Replace the batteries with new ones. (If the
orange lamp is blinking, wait until the lamp stops
blinking.)

P.15

There is a problem
with the card.

Refer to the "Error codes".

P.124

The picture is out of focus.
The subject was too
close.

Move further away from the subject. To take pictures
closer than 20 cm (7.9") with the zoom in the
maximum WIDE position, use the super macro mode.

P.53

Auto focus is not
possible.

Obtain the correct focus with the focus lock
operation.

P.42

There is condensation*
on the lens.

Turn the camera off and wait until it dries before
turning it on again.

The flash does not fire.
The flash is set to the
flash off mode.

Select a flash mode other than flash off.

P.49

The subject is
illuminated.

If you want the flash to fire on a brightly
illuminated subject, set the flash to fill-in mode.

P.49

Movie mode, or super
macro shooting is set.

The flash does not fire in the movie mode or
super macro shooting.

P.45, 53

*Condensation: When it is cold outside, the water vapor in the air is rapidly cooled and

turns to droplets of water.
Condensation occurs when the camera is suddenly taken from a cold
place into a warm room.

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