Protecting Images

You can protect important images from being accidentally erased.

Caution

Note

Once an image is protected, it cannot be erased by the camera's erase function. To erase a protected image, you must first cancel the protection.
If you erase all the images (), only the protected images will remain. This is convenient when you want to erase all unneeded images at once.
Voice memos can be added to protected images. For images with existing voice memos, additional voice memo recording is also possible.

Protecting Individual Images with the / Button

Select the image to protect.
- Turn the dial to select an image to protect.
Protect the image.
- Press the / button to protect the image, after which it will be labeled with a icon (1) at the top of the screen.
- To cancel protection and clear the icon, press the / button again.
- To protect another image, repeat steps 1 and 2.

Select [: Protect images].
Select [Select images].
Select the image to protect.
- Turn the dial to select an image to protect.
Protect the image.
- Press to protect the selected image, after which it will be labeled with a icon (1) at the top of the screen.
- To cancel protection and clear the icon, press again.
- To protect another image, repeat steps 3 and 4.

While looking at the images in the index display, you can specify the first and last images for a range to protect all the specified images at once.

Select [Select range].
Specify the range of images.
- Select the first image (start point).
- Next, select the last image (end point). The images in the specified range will be protected and the icon will appear.
- To select another image to protect, repeat step 2.

You can protect all the images in a folder or on a card at once.

When you select [All images in folder] or [All images on card] in [: Protect images], all the images in the folder or on the card will be protected.
To cancel protection, select [Unprotect all images in folder] or [Unprotect all images on card].
If the search conditions are set with [: Set image search conditions] (), the display will change to [All found images] and [Unprotect all found].
- If you select [All found images], all the images filtered by the search conditions will be protected.
- If you select [Unprotect all found], the protection of all the filtered images will be canceled.

Note

Protecting or unprotecting images by selecting [All images on card] or [Unprotect all images on card] applies to the card selected in [: Record func+card/folder sel.] (in either [ Record/play]/[ Record/play] or [ Play]/[ Play]).