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Kim Landes (BASKETS4) 0 pts
December 19, 2008 10:37 AM
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I have a blinking question mark on my screen, and camera will not take a picture

I have only had my camera 2 weeks, so I am new at this. This past week when I would go to take a picture, when I pushed the shutter button down, it would not take. A blinking ?make comes up on the display screen. I am in auto mode.
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Brenda P (BrendaP) 28729 pts
December 21, 2008 11:36 PM
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Not sure. It's possible you just bumped a setting somewhere. Can you get into the menus and do a reset/ restore factory defaults?
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Kim Landes (BASKETS4) 0 pts
December 22, 2008 6:34 AM
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Thanks. I will try that. My kids have had my camera, so that could be the problem.
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bukit97 (bukit97) 12611 pts
December 23, 2008 8:50 PM
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In auto mode, the ' ? ' mark will be blinking if the' subject is too dark '.
Usually the flash will pop up under such situration and let you take pictures.

However, if you had set the flash to ' off ' previously and forget to turn it on again, the camera will not do so.
Just press the ' + ' button on the bottom left hand corner twice to bring up the screen for you to navigate to the ' flash ' and set it to ' on '. This enables the flash to pop up and you can take pictures again.
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Kim Landes (BASKETS4) 0 pts
December 23, 2008 9:02 PM
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Thank you. I just did that and it helped. I am just learning about my new camera.
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bukit97 (bukit97) 12611 pts
December 24, 2008 12:26 PM
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Glad my solution works.

Solving a problem by ' remote control ' and not actually handling the camera, involves a lot of guesses.
In this case I tried it out on my camera to find out what actually could be the problem. We are lucky that what I found is actually what you are facing.
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