1 Instruction..............1 1.1 Camera Body Interface........1 1.2 General Description........2 1.3 Shooting Information Display ..... 2 1.4 Saving Images or Videos......4 1.5 Cautions ............4 2 Quick Start Guide ..........5 2.1 Power Supply ..........5 2.2 Insert the SD card ........5 2.3 Power on and Entering into ON Mode..
1.2 General Description This camera, a bird watching camera with White LEDs or 940nm black IR LEDs, is a digital infrared surveillance camera, triggered by any movement of animals or humans monitored by a high sensitive Passive Infrared (PIR) motion sensor, and then automatically captures high quality pictures or records video clips according to default settings or preset customer settings.
1.4 Saving Images or Videos The camera uses a standard SD(Secure Digital) memory card to save images(in .jpg format) and videos(in .avi format). SD and SDHC(High Capacity) cards up to 32GB are supported. Before inserting the SD card be sure that the SD card is unlocked. Note: without SD card inserted, the camera will turn off automatically.
2 Quick Start Guide 2.1 Power Supply Use 4 AA batteries or 6V external power supply to support the camera. Use high-capacity and high-performance alkaline betteries(recommended), rechargeable Lithium batteries or rechargeable Nimh batteries. 2.2 Insert the SD card Open the bottom cover, insert SD card into the card slot.
2.3 Power on and Entering into ON Mode Before switching on, please pay attention to the follows: 1. Avoid temperature and motion disturbances in front of the camera such as big leaf, curtain, air-conditioner, air outlet of the chimney and other heat sources to prevent from false triggering.
2.4 Custom Settings Press MENU on the remote control to enter into menu settings. The camera can be adjusted to manually customize the camera settings which displayed on the LCD screen of the remote control. You can press SHOT key to manually capture photos or record a video and again SHOT to stop a video.
3 Item Settings 3.1 Camera Menu To view the camera settings menu, press MENU on the remote control. With the remote, use “▲” or “▼” key to select the sub-menu, use “►” key to select the different options. Press “OK” to save the settings and MENU to exit.
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Photo Choose the image size, e.g. 5 mega pixels Size or 10 mega pixels. Photo Choose the continuous shooting numbers Burst after each triggering. Video Choose the video size: 1280x720 or Size 640x480. Choose duration of recording video. Its value extends from 5 to 60 seconds with Video a step of one second.
3.2 Default Setting Setting Default Options Submenu Items Camera Photo Video Mode Set Clock Enter Adjust Clock Photo Size 10MP Photo 2 Photos 1 Photo Burst 3 Photos Video Size 1280x720 640x480 Video 10 sec 5–60 sec Length Normal High, Low Sensitivity 0–55 Sec, 5 Sec...
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remote to view the latest picture in TEST mode, UP or DOWN to view the previous and the next one. And OK to return to info display. Note that video can not be displayed on the screen. Delete Photo or Video: View the image (or video) which to be deleted, select the one you want to delete.
4 Trouble Shooting 1 There is something in front of the camera lens. Is the camera broken? A: The camera is not broken. It’s an IR-cut filter. When the camera is powered on, the IR-cut will be reset and cover the lens. Only when the camera is powered off, the IR-cut will be at a random place 2 The camera controller is not working anymore.
5 PIR Detection Zone This camera has a new design of PIR and the new PIR is patented. The new patented PIR’s detection range can reach to 73ft in good environments. Following picture shows the compared detection zone between normal PIR and the new patented PIR.
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