® DC1500 Video & Photo Software
Digital Camera DC1500 User Guide Table of Contents Lincense Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Electromagnetic Compatibility Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Caution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Attention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 In This Package . . . . . . . . . . .
Digital Camera DC1500 User Guide License Agreement ColorMOS is a trademark of VLSI Vision Ltd., UK. Microsoft, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, 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.
Digital Camera User Guide In This Package • DC1500 Digital Camera • Digital Camera Software CD-ROM • USB cable • 9-pin (RS232) connecting cable • User Guide (Inside CD-ROM) Note: The AAA batteries needed for the Digital Camera are NOT included. Use alkaline batteries are recommanded.
Digital Camera DC1500 User Guide Batteries Installation 1. 2. 3. 4. Open the battery door on the bottom of your camera. Install 3 AAA batteries into Digital Camera, as shown. Make sure to orient the positive (+) and negative (-) ends of the batteries exactly as shown. Replace the door. 1. 2. AAA UM4- / LR 03 / 1.5V R03 3. x3 AAA UM4- / LR 03 / 1.5V R03 x3 CAUTION – To avoid battery leakage: • Non-rechargeable batteries are not to be recharged.
Digital Camera DC1500 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 • 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 DC1500 User Guide Taking Photos Once your camera is connected to your computer and your Digital Camera Suite is installed, you’re ready to learn about taking photos. Holding the Camera Hold the camera as shown below when taking photos. • • Press the mode button. The LED will light up, 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 DC1500 User Guide Changing the Capture Mode • Select the Low Resolution Mode • Press Mode button to select • Press Shutter button to change it then the frame counter will change to 80. Note: If you want to change the resolution, it is needed to clear all photos by the function • . Select the Continuous Mode • Press Mode button until is shown. • Hold down the Shutter button for taking photos continuously until the frame counter countdown to 00.
Digital Camera DC1500 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.
Digital Camera DC1500 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 DC1500 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 DC1500 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 DC1500 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. 5.
Digital Camera DC1500 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. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Digital Camera DC1500 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 DC1500 User Guide AVI Creator AVI Creator can transfer your CoolCam™ photos to AVI (Video) format. The total time is 8 seconds for QCIF (Low Resolution) photo and 2 seconds for CIF (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 DC1500 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 DC1500 User Guide Trouble Shooting • 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 file size of a photo (CIF size, save as BMP file) is 298KB. For 20 photos, the file size will be 5944KB (equal to the AVI file size). If the compression is set to on in the AVICreator, the file size will be reduced to 1354KB but the video quality is not so good.
Digital Camera DC1500 User Guide Product Specifications • Digital Camera 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. • Resolution Lens Memory Number of Pictures View Finder LCD Buzzer LED Power Switch Picture Retention Battery Power Auto-Off Upload speed : : : : : : : : : : : : : 352x288 pixels (CIF), 176x144 pixels (QCIF) Plastic, two elements, F 2.0, 35mm (Equiv.) 2MB SDRAM 20 for CIF, 80 for QCIF Yes. 2 digits 7-segment display Yes. Beep sound indicates working mode Yes.
