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## Batteries

On the battery
About the remaining battery charge
Batteries you can and cannot use with your camera
On alkaline batteries (supplied) / Oxy Nickel Primary Battery (sold separately)
On Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries (sold separately)

### On the battery

- Avoid rough handling, disassembling, modifying, physical shock, or impact such as hammering, dropping or stepping on the battery.

- Do not use a deformed or damaged battery.

- Do not mix a used battery together with a new battery or different types of batteries.

- Remove the batteries from the camera when you do not operate the camera for long periods, or when the batteries are dead.

### About the remaining battery charge

A: High
B: Low

- A remaining charge indicator appears on the LCD screen.

- It takes about one minute until the correct remaining charge indicator appears.

- The remaining charge indicator may not be correct under certain circumstances.

- When [Power Save] is set to [Standard] or [Stamina], if you do not operate the camera for a certain period of time while the power is on, the LCD screen becomes dark, then the camera turns off automatically (Auto power-off function).

### Batteries you can and cannot use with your camera

In the table below, indicates the battery can be used, while indicates the one cannot be used.

Battery type | Supplied | Supported | Rechargeable
LR6 (size AA) alkaline batteries* |  |  |
HR 15/51: HR6 (size AA) Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries* |  |  |
ZR6 (size AA) Oxy Nickel Primary batteries* |  |  |
Lithium batteries |  |  |
Manganese batteries |  |  |
Ni-Cd batteries |  |  |

* Before using batteries, read the following precaution for each type of battery.
As for unsupported batteries, operating performance cannot be ensured if voltage drops or other problems are caused by the nature of the battery.

### On alkaline batteries (supplied) / Oxy Nickel Primary Battery (sold separately)

- Alkaline batteries / Oxy Nickel Primary Battery cannot be charged.

- Alkaline batteries / Oxy Nickel Primary Battery have a shorter life compared to the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries. For this reason, the power may turn off even though the remaining-charge indicator shows sufficient battery life remaining.

- Battery performance differs greatly depending on the manufacturer and the type of battery, and in some cases the battery life may be extremely short. This is especially true at low temperatures, and you may not be able to shoot at temperatures below 5°C (41°F).

- Do not mix new and old batteries.

- The remaining-charge indicator may not display the correct information when using alkaline batteries / Oxy Nickel Primary Battery.

- Due to characteristics of alkaline batteries / Oxy Nickel Primary Battery, there is a large difference between the available shooting time and the available playback time. For this reason, the camera may turn off with the lens portion extended when you switch the mode switch. In this case, replace the batteries with new ones. Using the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries allows you to shoot for longer periods of time.

### On Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries (sold separately)

- Do not peel off the external seals or damage the batteries. Never use batteries from which the seals have been partially or completely removed, or batteries that have been split in any way. These may cause leakage, explosion, or heat-up of the battery, and personal scald or injury may be caused. These may cause a malfunction of the battery charger.

- Do not carry or store the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries with metallic objects. Since metallic objects may short the + and – ends, resulting in the risk of heating or fire.

- If the poles of the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries are dirty, the batteries may not charge properly. Wipe them with a dry cloth, etc.

- At the time of purchase, or when the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries have not been used for a long time, they may not full charge. This is typical of this type of battery, and is not a malfunction. If this happens, repeatedly using up the batteries fully, and then recharging them should correct the problem.

- If you recharge Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries before fully using up the existing charge, the low battery warning may be displayed sooner than expected. This is called the “memory effect.”* If this problem occurs, charging the batteries only after using up the existing charge will correct it.

* The “memory effect” – the situation in which the capacity of the battery is temporarily lowered.

- To use up the batteries completely, put the camera in the slideshow mode and leave it that way until the batteries are used up.

- Do not mix new and used batteries.

- Do not expose the battery to water. The battery is not water-resistant.

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