Canon XA10 - Manual (Page 161)

Troubleshooting
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The red ON/OFF (CHG) indicator flashes very slowly ( one flash at 2-second
intervals).
- The temperature of the battery pack is outside its operating range (approximately 0 – 40 °C).
Remove the battery pack, warm it or let it cool down, as necessary, and try charging it again.
- Charge the battery pack in temperatures between approximately 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,
remove the battery pack and disconnect all other power sources from the camcorder. Then,
press the RESET button with a pointed object to reset all the camcorder’s settings to default
values.
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 61). This is not a malfunction.
No picture appears on the viewfinder.
- Pull out the viewfinder to activate it.
- No picture will be output to the viewfinder if a cable is connected to the HDMI OUT,
COMPONENT OUT or AV OUT/ X terminal in playback mode. Remove the cable.
Viewfinder picture is blurred.
- Adjust the viewfinder with the dioptric adjustment lever ( 0 24).
Audio cannot be recorded.
- When using a microphone connected to the MIC terminal, make sure the microphone is turned
on. Also, make sure its battery is not exhausted.
- The audio input switch is not set correctly ( 0 72) or the audio recording level is not set
correctly ( 0 75).
- An external microphone that requires phantom power is connected to the XLR terminal. Set the
XLR terminal switch to MIC+48V ( 0 74).
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