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MegaCam is also not just a digital camera. It lets you record short segments of video. What’s more, it can be used as a Web camera when you connect it to a computer.
Contents Know Your Camera ... 3 Camera Controls ... 3 Digital Interface Compartment ... 6 Preparing Your Camera ... 6 Start Using Your Camera ... 7 Formatting the SD Card ... 7 Shooting Photos ... 8 Viewing Photos ... 8 Taking Close-ups, Portrait and Distant Pictures ...
Know Your Camera This is not your traditional camera. This is a “digital camera”. A digital camera allows you to take pictures without the use of film. Eliminate developing costs by downloading the photos to your PC. You can send your photos via email, upload them to your web site.
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And what’s more is MegaCam allows you to scale the resolution up to 3 and 4 megapixels Front of Digital Camera Viewfinder Window - The Viewfinder window allows you to center on the subject or scene you want to photograph.
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• Digital Zoom provides four times magnification beyond the optical zoom. Press the Mode button to activate Preview and use the LCD display to frame your subject. And press Up/Down button once to zoom in/ouut your object. It does not function when you select 3M and 4M Scale up for your photo quality.
USB port. You can then transfer photos and recorded videos from the camera to your computer, or use the digital camera as a Web camera. Preparing Your Camera • Step 1 Insert the two AA batteries into the battery compartment located at the bottom of your digital camera.
Note: 1. To remove the SD card, push the SD card once and the card will be ejected from the memory compartment. 2. MegaCam comes with built-in 8Mbyte internal NAND Flash memory. You don’t necessarily add extra memory for it. •...
Taking Close-ups, Portrait and Distant Pictures The lens at the front of the digital camera can be adjusted for taking close-up pictures as well as people portrait and distant pictures. To take close-up pictures: •...
Deleting Photos You can choose to delete a single photo or all the photos previously taken with the digital camera. Deleting a Single Photo If you are not satisfied with some pictures, you may delete them from the memory. • Step 1 Make sure that the camera is turned on.
Changing Camera Settings Access the Camera Setup menu in your digital camera to change camera settings. • Step 1 Press Menu button bring up the camera’s menu screen. • Step 2 Press OK on the Setup option.
You must install the Dual Camera Driver from the Digital Camera CD before connecting in order for your computer to function properly using the USB. See the section, “Installing Software” on page 13 for details on how to install the driver.
Note: Channel may vary by manufacturer; refer to your VCR’s operating manual. Recording Video With your camera, you can record short sequences of video at a rate of twenty frames per second. The camera stores video in *.AVI format. Before recording, first set the camera to video recording mode.
Installing All Software and Driver To install the digital camera driver and all the software in the MegaCam CD: • Step 1 Place the MegaCam CD into your CD-ROM drive. • Step 2 The Software Installation screen appears, with the Install All the Software and Driver option selected.
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MSDC Driver. The PC Cam Driver allows you to connect the camera to your computer and download photos as well as use the digital camera as a Web camera. MSDC lets you copy photos and recorded video clips from the camera into your storage driver.
Downloading photos Here is the exciting time! After you have finished taking photos, you must like to see how the result is. Simply follow the steps below you will realize how easy downloading photos can be: • Step 1 Go to PC Mode options in your MegaCam Setup menu and select Storage Mode.
Appendix: Camera Specifications Image Sensor Optical Viewfinder LCD Display Imgae Size & Memory Color Exposure Control Lens Focus Length Flash Mode Self-timer White Balance Compression method USB Connection PC Camera 1600 X 1200, 2.0M pixel COMS sensor Built-in 1.5" color TFT LCD, Field of View 80% LED Backlight Resolution: 288 x 220 LCD Frame Rate: Min.
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