Contents 1. Instructions ...................... 3 General Description ................. 3 Camera Body Interface ................3 Camera components and features ............. 3 Remote Control ..................3 Shooting Information Display ..............4 Supported Format ................... 4 2.Cautions ......................5 Power Supply ..................6 Insert the SD-card ...................
1. Instructions 1.1 General Description This digital trail camera is a surveillance camera working automatically. It can be triggered at once by any movement of human (or animals) in a certain region of interested (ROI) monitored by a high sensitive Passive Infrared (PIR) motion sensor, and then automatically captures high quality pictures (up to 12M pixels) or records 1080p HD video clips (WVGA or QVGA).
Note: Press the punctuation “ ” for laser light. Note (Under TEST mode): 1. Press “Shot” directly, the camera will take picture or video directly. 2. Press “OK” directly, the picture or video recorded can be viewed. 3. Viewing picture, press “Up” or “Down”. 4.
Here are some important notices. You don’t need to concern about the file system format of the camera unless you have problems with reading the SD-card by your other equipment. If this happened, please format the SD-card in the camera or in a computer at first and then reinsert the card into your camera to try again.
Easy Operations 3.1 Power Supply To supply power for the camera, four or 8X AA size batteries are needed. Open the bottom cover. Confirm that the power switch is at the OFF (Right) position, pull out the battery depot. Load the fully charged batteries into the depot according the polarities sign shown below.
3.4 Enter into the TEST Mode Slide the power switch to the TEST position to enter into the TEST mode. There are some functions in TEST mode: Custom settings, manual capture, preview. 3.4.1 Custom Settings Press the MENU switch to enter into menu setting. The camera can be taken over control to manually customize the camera settings which display on the camera or external TV monitor.
4.Advanced Operations From the basic operations of the camera in previous chapter, we know that the camera has three basic operation modes: 1. OFF mode: Power switch is at OFF position (Right). 2. ON mode: Power switch is at ON position (Left). 3.
4.1.7 Set Photo Size This parameter has three values: 12MP, 8MP and 5MP. The default value is 5 mega pixels. The following shows how to set pixel size as 5M Pixel: a) Press MENU to display the setting menu. b) Press DOWN to select Resolution. c) Press Right to select 12M Pixel.
4.1.12 Set Video Length The following shows how to set video length to 30 Seconds, provided that the previous value is 10 Seconds: a) Press MENU to display the setting menu (under VIDEO column). b) Press DOWN to select Video Length. c) Press down the select switch to save the current setting, then press MENU to return to info display.
4.2 Playback In playback mode, images or videos can be viewed, deleted. The images and videos can be viewed on: LCD screen on camera and TV monitor which connect to camera with TV cable. For simplicity, operations with PC won’t be introduced here. 4.2.3 Viewing Photo or Video a) Switch to TEST mode and enter into info display.
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