Digital Camera User Guide Table of Contents Lincense Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Electromagnetic Compatibility Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Caution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Attention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 In This Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Digital Camera User Guide License Agreement Microsoft, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Me are registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. The TWAIN driver and the AVI Creator is developed by VLSI Vision Ltd.,UK. The Photo Fantasy, Photo Printer and Photo Studio is licensed by Arcsoft, USA. All other product names mentioned here in are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Digital Camera User Guide In This Package • Digital Camera • Digital Camera Software CD-ROM • USB cable Note: 3 x AAA batteries needed for the Digital Camera are NOT included. System Requirements • Multimedia PC Pentium 133 or higher / Mac G3 or higher • Windows 98 / 98SE/Me/2000/NT for USB port / Mac OS 8.
Digital Camera User Guide Batteries Installation 1. 2. 3. 4. Open the battery door at the back of your camera. Install 3 x AAA Alkaline batteries into Digital Camera, as shown. Make sure to orient the positive (+) and negative (-) ends of the batteries exactly as shown. Replace the door. CAUTION – To avoid battery leakage: • Non-rechargeable batteries are not to be recharged. • Be sure to insert the battery with the correct polarities according to battery manufacturer’s instructions.
Digital Camera User Guide AVI Creator Program • • • It is a program to create a video file from the camera. AVICreator will install in your hard disk automatically after Arcsoft’s software install completed. To launch AVICreator, click ‘Start’ from the Windows Taskbar, then search through ‘Programs’/Digital Camera Suite/ AVICreator’. Connecting Your Digital Camera to the PC / Mac USB If your computer has a USB port, insert the USB plug of the camera cable into the USB port on your computer.
Digital Camera User Guide Taking Photos Once your Digital CD-ROM software is installed, you’re ready to learn about taking photos. Holding the Camera Hold the camera as shown below when taking photos. • The camera will turn on once batteries are installed. • A beep sound will play and the LCD panel will turn on indicating the camera is on. • The LCD will show the capture mode first then skip to the frame counter .
Digital Camera User Guide Note: Default setting of the camera is on High Resolution Mode. • • Look through the viewfinder. The focus is set to work best when taking a photo of a subject that is minimum 2 feet away from the camera. Press the Shutter button, you’ll hear a beep sound and the frame counter will count down 1 frame which indicates an image has been taken.
Digital Camera User Guide Getting Started with Digital Camera Suite PhotoFantasy This is a funny role play program. In just a few seconds, you can become a supermodel, a pro athlete, a caveman or even Santa Claus. Let’s go into the program now. • To Launch PhotoFantasy 1. 2. Click ‘Start’ from the Windows Taskbar, then search through ‘Programs’/ Digital Camera Suite. Choose PhotoFantasy to run it. • Opening Screen • Quick Guide for Select Input Source from Digital Camera 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Digital Camera User Guide • Main Screen The Main Screen contains controls that allow you to access the other program screens, as well as to make final adjustments and enhancements to your photo fantasy. • Main Screen 7 1 8 2 9 3 4 5 10 6 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 13 14 Get Fantasy Button : opens the Get Fantasy Screen, so you can select the fantasy background for your photo fantasy. From this screen, you can also create your own fantasies.
Digital Camera User Guide Get Fantasy Screen Clicking the Get Fantasy Button takes you to Get Fantasy Screen. Here you can select the fantasy background from software CD and create your own fantasy background. • Get Fantasy Screen 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8 1 Fantasy Category Menu : provides a list of available fantasy categories. This list includes categories contained on your CD-ROM and a ‘My Fantasy’ category for adding your own fantasy backgrounds.
Digital Camera User Guide Get Photo Screen After you create the fantasy background, clicking the ‘Get Photo Button 1,2 or 3’ in the Main Screen takes you to the Get Photo Screen. You can choose the photos for your photo fantasy and create new category of photos. • Get Photo Screen 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 1 Photo Category Menu : provides a list of available fantasy categories. You can make your own category of photos, choose the ‘New’ option from the list. The default name will be ‘Untitled#’.
Digital Camera User Guide PhotoPrinter This is a simple program for you to print the picture in several steps. Go into the program and upload the pictures from the camera. Select a feature to print the photo to your favor. • To Launch PhotoPrinter 1. 2. Click ‘Start’ from the Windows Taskbar, then search through ‘Programs’/Digital Camera Suite. Choose PhotoPrinter to run it. • Opening Screen • Quick Guide for Select Input Source from Digital Camera 1. 2. 3. 4.
Digital Camera User Guide • PhotoPrinter Main Screen The PhotoPrinter Main Screen contains buttons that let you quickly access the Photo Album, Crop, Edit and Frame Screens. • PhotoPrinter Main Screen 1 6 2 7 3 4 8 5 9 10 1 Get Photos Button : this button takes you to the Photo Album Screen where you can select photo(s) for printing. Here you will find buttons that make it easy to create new photo albums, delete thumbnails and acquire photos from Digital Camera. • • • • • Acquire button.
Digital Camera User Guide PhotoStudio PhotoStudio is a powerful, easy-to-use, digital image editing program for PC’s running. It enables full-color images to be acquired, managed, enhanced, retouched, and output for publications, presentation, and the internet. • To Launch PhotoStudio 1. 2. • Click ‘Start’ from the Windows Taskbar, then search through ‘Programs’/Digital Camera Suite. Choose PhotoStudio to run it. • Opening Screen Select Input Source from Digital Camera 1.
Digital Camera User Guide • PhotoStudio Main Screen The PhotoStudio Main Screen contains commonly used commands and options grouped under different titles: File, Edit, Mask, Transform, Enhance, Effects, Convert, View Window and Help. Each menu group title has its own pull-down menu where specific commands and options are found. Some items in the pull-down menu may also contain a submenu, which, once clicked, will open a dialog box on the desktop.
Digital Camera User Guide AVI Creator AVI Creator can transfer your Digital Camera photos to AVI (Video) format. The total time is 15 seconds for CIF (Low Resolution) photo and 3 seconds for VGA (High Resolution) photo. • To Launch AVI Creator 1. Click ‘Start’ from the Windows Taskbar, then search through ‘Programs’/Digital Camera Suite/ AVICreator’. • AVI Creator Main Screen 1 3 2 4 5 1 Frame Rate Silde Button : silde this button to change the playback frame rate of the AVI file.
Digital Camera User Guide Hints On Taking Quality Photos • If you want to take a photo of your friend, try to take at least half the body size. You will not get her eyes clearly if you take the whole body. • Take care of the background light intensity. It will affect the exposure of the main object. The camera can calculate the total light intensity of the picture to fine adjust the exposure. If the background is too dark, the object will be too bright.
Digital Camera User Guide Trouble Shooting • Turning off the power will cause the loss of all stored photos. Please make sure you have uploaded the important photos before the switch is turned to off without the USB power provided. • If you disconnect the USB cable during operation, you need to close the Acquire dialog panel and then re-open it again for the PC to recognize the unit. • The camera is set to your country’s AC mains frequency.
Digital Camera User Guide Product Specifications • • • Digital Camera 1. Resolution 2. Lens 3. Memory 4. Number of Pictures 5. View Finder 6. LCD 7. Buzzer 8. Picture Retention 9. Battery Power 10. Auto-Off 11. Upload speed : : : : : : : : : : : 640x480 pixels (VGA), 320x240 (QVGA) Plastic, two elements, F 3.0, 35mm (Equiv.) 8MB SDRAM 26 for VGA, 107 for CIF Yes. Status LCD with ICON display Yes. Beep sound indicates working mode Yes. By main power batteries. 3A battery x 3 pcs ( 4.5V) Yes.
Digital Camera User Guide Appendix I Installing PC Driver & upload photos A. For Win 98/Me OS users Put the CD-ROM to the CD-ROM drive. It will automatically start the installation. In the final step, it will install the driver. You can select the languages for the driver’s dialog panel. After several seconds, it will request to re-boot. After re-boot, plug in the USB cable to the camera and it will recognize the unit. Check the Control Panel-System-Device Manger-Image Device-Digital Camera. B.
Digital Camera User Guide How to upload the images with the Arcsoft programs. A. PhotoStudio Goto Start-Program Files-Digital Camera Suite, double click on the PhotoStudio Select File-Acquire-Select Source, select the Digital Camera Select File-Acquire-Acquire, it will open the TWAIN driver dialog panel. If you have taken some photos and connected the USB cable, it will upload the thumbnails in several seconds. Double click on each thumbnail you can get the full size image.
Digital Camera User Guide B. PhotoPrinter Click Start-Programs-Digital Camera Suite, double click on the PhotoPrinter. Select the Get Photos icon. Select the Camera icon. Select the source : Digital Camera. Click OK. It will appear the dialog panel. Uplaod any or all photos to a new template in the PhotoPrinter. C. PhotoFantasy Click Start-Programs-Digital Camera Suite, double click on the PhotoFantasy. Select the Get Fantasy icon. It will show the photos stored in the templates.
Digital Camera User Guide Appendix II Installing Mac Driver & upload photos This MAC version CD-ROM consists of 8 folders and one PDF document listed as below : 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) Acrobat Reader 3.0 : Acrobat Reader for reading a PDF file MAC driver : CP084 MAC driver version 1.
Digital Camera User Guide Camera Control C. Install PhotoFantasy, PhotoPrinter or PhotoStudio In the CD-ROM, you can find the folders English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. Select the language you need. Eg. English folder. Inside it with the Arcsoft programs. Click on the PhotoFantasy. Click on the Install icon. After installation, click on the Quit icon. Do this the same for the other two programs. ** it needs 64MB SDRAM in order to start installation of the PhotoStudio.
Digital Camera User Guide D. Get the photos with the Arcsoft programs 1. PhotoFantasy Find the folder of PhotoFantasy in the hard drive. Double click on the PhotoFantasy 2000. It will see the dialog panel of PhotoFantasy. Click on the Get Fantasy icon. Select a Fantasy photo and click OK. Click on the Get Photos (#1) icon. Click the Add icon. Select a photo from the folder you stored the photos of the camera. Open the photo file and you can see the photo. Click OK to select this photo.
Digital Camera User Guide Appendix III FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS : 1. I always take bad quality photos at home, why? Take the photo with enough light intensity. You need to take photos in your office or outside with sunlight. It is not recommended to use it indoor at night. 2. How to get a good photo of my friend? If you want to take a photo of your friend, try to take at least half the body size. You will not get her eyes clearly if you take the whole body. 3.
Digital Camera User Guide 16. Can I use it when it is raining? Do not use it when it is raining or it is easy to get water drops. This camera is not protected from water. 17. Will the PC be damaged if I connect the camera with the USB cord? The current consumed from the USB port is small amount compared with the maximum output of the USB port. It will not damage the PC when something is wrong to the DC power line. 18. How to get the user manual hard copy? The user manual is in PDF format.
Digital Camera User Guide 30. Sometimes I cannot take a photo, why? You will hear a ‘Gi’ sound and the camera will not function to take a photo if the environment is too dark or too bright. It will operate properly for normal light intensity. 31. I found the unit is not function but ‘20’ (CIF model) or ‘26’ (VGA model) is seen on the LCD. Why? When old batteries are used, it may happen lock up. You cannot take a photo and the counter is always ‘20’ (CIF model) or ‘26’ (VGA model).
