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InterchangeableLensDigitalCamera

ILCE-9 α9

Notesonmemorycard

Ifyourepeatedlyshootanddeleteimagesforalongtime,fragmentationofdatainafileinthememorycardmay

occur,andmovierecordingmaybeinterruptedinthemiddleofshooting.Ifthishappens,saveyourimagestoa

computerorotherstoragelocation,thenexecute[Format]usingthiscamera.

Donotremovethebatterypackorthememorycard,disconnecttheUSBcable,orturnthecameraoffwhilethe

accesslampislitup.Thismaycausethedataonthememorycardtobecome damaged.

Besuretobackupthedataforprotection.

Notallmemorycardsareguaranteedtooperatecorrectly.

ImagesrecordedonanSDXCmemorycardcannotbeimportedtoorplayedoncomputersorAVdevicesthatare

notcompatiblewithexFATwhenconnectedusingamicroUSBcable.Makesurethatthedeviceiscompatible with

exFATbeforeconnectingittothecamera.

Ifyouconnectyourcameratoanincompatibledevice,youmaybepromptedtoformatthecard.Neverformatthe

cardinresponsetothisprompt,asdoingsowillerasealldataonthecard. 

(exFATisthefilesystemusedonSDXCmemorycards.)

Donotexposethememorycardtowater.

Donotstrike,bendordropthememorycard.

Donotuseorstorethememorycardunderthefollowingconditions:

Hightemperaturelocationssuchasinacarparkedunderthesun

Locationsexposedtodirectsunlight

Humidlocationsorlocationswithcorrosivesubstancespresent

Ifthememorycardisusednearareaswithstrongmagnetization,orusedinlocationssubjecttostaticelectricityor

electricalnoise,thedataonthememorycardmaybecomedamaged.

Donottouchtheterminalsectionofthememorycardwithyourhandorametalobject.

Donotleavethememorycardwithinthereachofsmallchildren.Theymightaccidentallyswallowit.

Donotdisassembleormodifythememorycard.

Thememorycardmaybehotjustafterithasbeenusedforalongtime.Becarefulwhenyouhandleit.

Memorycardformattedwithacomputerisnotguaranteedtooperatewiththeproduct.Formatthememorycard

usingthisproduct.

Dataread/writespeedsdifferdependingonthecombinationofthememorycardandtheequipmentused.

Donotpressdownhardwhenwritinginthememospace onthememorycard.

Donotattachalabelonthememorycarditselfnoronamemorycardadaptor.

Ifthewrite-protectswitchordelete-protectswitchofamemorycardissettotheLOCKposition,youcannotrecord

ordeleteimages.Inthis case,settheswitchtotherecordposition.

TouseaMemoryStickMicromediaormicroSDmemorycardwiththisproduct:

Besuretoinsertthememorycardintoa dedicatedadaptor.Ifyouinsertamemorycardinto theproductwithout

amemorycardadaptor,youmightnotbeabletoremoveitfromtheproduct.

Wheninsertingamemorycardintoamemorycardadaptor,besurethatthememorycardis insertedinthe

correctdirectionandtheninsertitasfarasitwillgo.Ifthecardisnotinsertedproperly,itmayresultina

malfunction.

AboutMemoryStickPRODuomediaandMemoryStickPRO-HGDuomedia:

This MemoryStickisequippedwithMagicGatefunction.MagicGateiscopyrightprotectiontechnologythatuses

encryptiontechnology.

Datarecording/playbackthatrequiresMagicGatefunctionscannotbeperformedwiththisproduct.

High-speeddatatransferusingaparallelinterfaceissupported.