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Turning on/off your camera
,
Press the POWER button.
The POWER ON/OFF lamp lights in green, 
the power is on, and the lens cover opens. 
When you turn on your camera for the first 
time, the “CLOCK SET” screen appears 
(see the next page).
To turn off the power
If you press the POWER button again, the 
POWER ON/OFF lamp goes out, and the 
camera turns off.
if you turn the power on when the Mode dial is 
set to 
, or SCN, the lens begins to move 
(DSC-P71 only). Please be careful not to touch 
the lens.
1
POWER button
POWER ON/
OFF lamp
The Auto Power Off feature
If no tasks are performed for a while* 
when shooting, playing back, or 
performing SET UP while using the 
batteries, power is automatically shut 
off to preserve battery power.
However, in the following 
circumstances, even if the battery is 
being used to power the camera, the 
Auto Power Off feature will not work.
• Movies are being played back
• A slide show is being shown
• There is a plug in the USB terminal 
or the VIDEO OUT jack 
*
When POWER SAVE is set to ON: 
approximately 90 seconds 
When POWER SAVE is set to OFF: 
approximately 3 minutes
How to use the 
control button
To change the current settings of the 
camera, bring up the menu or SET UP on 
the LCD screen (page 55), and use the 
control button to make the changes. 
For each item, press v/V/b/B to select the 
desired value, then press the center z or 
b/B to make the setting.
 (Spot light-metering) is not displayed on 
the menu of the DSC-P31 (page 61).
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Setting the date and time
,
Turn the Mode dial to 
.
To change values for the time and the date that 
have been previously set, change the Mode dial 
to SET UP, choose “CLOCK SET” in “SETUP 
1” (page 97), then proceed from Step 3.
You can also carry out this operation when the 
mode dial is set to SCN, 
, or 
.
,
 Press the POWER button.
The POWER lamp lights in green and the 
“CLOCK SET” screen appears.
,
Choose the desired order for 
the date, the month and the 
year using 
v
/
V
 on the control 
button, then push the center 
z
You can choose from “Y/M/D” (year/
month/day), “M/D/Y”, and “D/M/Y”.
If the rechargeable button battery, which 
provides the power for saving the time data, 
ever loses its charge (page 99), the “CLOCK 
SET” screen automatically reappears. If this 
happens, reset the date and time by following 
the above procedure, starting from Step 3.
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Mode dial
2
D/M/Y
OK
CANCEL
M/D/Y
Y/M/D
CLOCK SET
2002 /
:
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12
02
AM
OK
POWER button
3
D/M/Y
OK
CANCEL
M/D/Y
Y/M/D
CLOCK SET
2002 /
:
/   1
  1
12
02
AM
OK
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