Transferring Images To Your Computer - Vivitar Vivicam 2005 User Manual

5. Windows 98 Mass Storage Driver Installation
Windows 98 users will need to install a software "driver" before connecting their Vivicam 2005 to
their computer. It is important that Windows 98 users first install the driver from the CD ROM
before connecting the camera to their PC. Insert the product CD ROM and follow the on screen
instructions to install the driver for Win 98. Once the driver is installed you may transfer images
to your PC as outlined in the next section.
Windows ME, 2000, and XP as well as Mac OSX users do not need a driver. In fact, Win
Me/200/XP users should not install the Win 98 driver. Simply connect the Vivicam 2005 camera
to your PC or Mac and wait momentarily for the computer to initialize and recognize the camera as
a USB removable disk.

6. Transferring Images to your Computer

Downloading your images to your computer is easy.
Step 1: Connecting the Camera to Your Computer
1.
Connect one end of the USB cable to an available USB port on your computer.
2. Connect the other end of the USB cable to the USB connector on the camera.
3. Turn the camera on and allow the computer to recognize the camera.
4. From the Windows desktop double click on "My Computer".
automatically open on your PC. If so, skip to step 7.)
5. Look for a new "removable disk" icon. This "removable disk" is actually the memory (or memory
card) in your camera. Typically, the camera will be assigned drive letter "e" or higher.
6. Double click on the removable disk and locate the DCIM folder.
7. Double click on the DCIM folder to open it to find more folders - your images and video clips will be
inside these folders
Mac users: double-click the "unlabeled" disk drive icon on our desktop.
automatically launch. The volume label may vary depending upon whether you use internal
camera memory, or a memory card.
Step 2: Transfer images to your computer.
When the camera is turned on and connected to your computer, it is considered to be a disk
drive, just like a floppy disk or CD. You can download (transfer) images by copying them
from the "removable disk" ("untitled" disk on a Macintosh) to your computers hard drive.
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