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Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 1
Key Features ............................................................................................................................................ 1
What Your Camera Includes .................................................................................................................... 1
Computer System Requirement for Windows XP .................................................................................... 2
Computer System Requirement for Windows Vista / 7 ............................................................................ 2
Computer System Requirements for Macintosh ...................................................................................... 2
Main Icons on the LCD............................................................................................................................. 4
Prepare Your Camera for use .................................................................................................................. 6
Install battery ............................................................................................................................................ 6
Charging your Lithium battery .................................................................................................................. 6
Install SD memory card ............................................................................................................................ 6
Starting Your Digital Camera .................................................................................................................... 7
Camera Mode .......................................................................................................................................... 8
Taking Photos........................................................................................................................................... 8
Install PhoTags Express Software............................................................................................................ 29
Everything you need to get the most from your photos............................................................................ 31
Photags Express software owner manual ................................................................................................ 35
Camera Maintenance...............................................................................................................................36
Appendix B: Troubleshooting................................................................................................................. 38

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Prepare Your Camera for use ........................6 Install battery ............................6 Charging your Lithium battery ........................6 Install SD memory card ..........................6 Starting Your Digital Camera ........................7 Camera Mode ............................8 Taking Photos............................8 Install PhoTags Express Software......................29 Everything you need to get the most from your photos................

  • Page 2: Introduction

    Introduction Thanks for purchasing this kind of Digital Camera, it not can only take good quality digital photos but also can be used as removable disk, everything you need to take quality photos is included with your camera, please read this manual carefully before using.

  • Page 3: Computer System Requirement For Windows Xp

    Computer System Requirement for Windows XP To be able to download photos and videos to your PC you will need the following minimum configuration: Pentium processor or above with Windows 2000, XP 128 MB RAM, more than 150MB free disk space. Available USB Interface CD-ROM Drive Recommended screen resolution 1024 X 768 pixels or higher.
  • Page 4 Quick Look at Your Camera...

  • Page 5: Main Icons On The Lcd

    Main Icons on the LCD...

  • Page 6: Battery Power Level

    Battery power level Self Timer Full battery power Self-timer On 10 seconds Medium battery power Self-timer On 5seconds Low battery power Self-timer On 2 seconds Photo quality Digital Zoom Normal quality Super quality Protect Fine quality Protect On Flash Anti-Shake Force Flash Auto Anti-Shake on...

  • Page 7: Prepare Your Camera For Use

    Prepare Your Camera for use Install battery Your camera supplied a lithium battery, please refer to the following illustration as correct installation method: 1. Slide and open the battery compartment. 2. Insert the lithium battery correctly as the correct polarity facing up. 3.

  • Page 8: Starting Your Digital Camera

    3. Don’t remove the SD card during formatting as this may damage the card and render it unusable. Starting Your Digital Camera Your digital camera is included 3 modes-Camera mode, Video mode and Playback mode. Camera mode is for you to take still photos. You can shoot video file in Video mode. And you can preview photos/videos, delete, rotate, protect, crop and printing your photos in playback mode.

  • Page 9: Camera Mode

    Power off Press Power button once to turn off your camera. When there is insufficient battery power, your camera will show “Low Battery” on the LCD screen and power off automatically after a moment. Camera Mode After you power on your camera, icon will appear on your LCD screen, indicating your camera is on Camera Mode.
  • Page 10 Press the Flash button repeatedly. Select the icon shown on the LCD screen. This will activate the automatic flash. Press the Flash button repeatedly. The icon will appear on the LCD screen. This means the flash function has been "forced on" (manual flash). If the flash is not ready, a red LED will light up beside the LCD screen and the icon will flash repeatedly- wait until the flash is ready before taking a photo.
  • Page 11 Note: 1. After you selected your scenery, the corresponding scenery icon will be appeared on the LCD. 2. You can press Left button for setting different scenes quickly: a. Press Left button. b. Press Up/Left/Right/Down button to select the scene and press Menu or Function button A to confirm. Image Size The image size and quality settings determine the number of photos can be saved and the amount of memory required for each photo.
  • Page 12 Note: You can press Function button B to exit in each menu. Anti-Shake Your Digital Camera has a function that prevents some blurry photos from trembling when taking photo. Because of this function, you are not required to use a tripod for steady shooting photos. To set as below: 1.
  • Page 13 3. Press Up/Down button to select On. 4. Press Menu button or Function button A to confirm. Smile Capture Press Menu button. Press Right/Left button to select the icon Press Up/Down button to select: On/Off. Press Menu button or Multi-Function button A to confirm. Continue Shot You can take 6 photos continuously after pressing Shutter button only once with this function on.
  • Page 14 Press Right/Left button to select the icon Press Up/Down button to select: On/Off. Press Menu button or Multi-Function button A to confirm. Self-Timer You can include yourself in a photo by using this feature to delay the time between your pressing the shutter and when the photo is actually taken.
  • Page 15 selection) until the photo is taken. Setup Menu You can set Exposure, ISO, White Balance, Sharpness, Quality, Date, Auto Power off, Frequency, Language, Copy, Format, Default Setting. Exposure This setting allows you to control the brightness of your images. 1. Press Up/Down button repeatedly to select Exposure in Set up menu. 2.
  • Page 16 3. Press Up/Down button to select exposure value (from+3 to -3). 4. Press Menu button or Function button A to confirm. The corresponding icon of exposure will appear on the LCD screen. Note: You can press Function button B to exit in each menu. This is an special function that allow you to compensate the light conditions when the light source is not good and also you are not admit to use flash light or tripod.
  • Page 17 2. Press Menu button or Function button A. 3. Press Up/Down button to choose the best option: Auto/Daylight/Cloudy/Incandescent/Fluorescent. 4. Press Menu button or Function button A to confirm. Note: You can press Function button B to exit in each menu. Sharpness This setting allows you to adjust the sharpness of your images, making edges more or less distinct.
  • Page 18 3. Press Up/Down button to select a sharpness value. 4. Press Menu button or Function button A to confirm. Note: You can press Function button B to exit in each menu. Quality The quality of your photos also affects the number of shots you can take. The Super setting means you can take fewer photos, but they will be better quality.
  • Page 19 Press Up/Down button to select a video size per your request. Press Menu button or Function button A to confirm. Note: You can press Function button B to exit in each menu. Date This allows you to set system time which will be display on the photos if you selected date on. 1.
  • Page 20 Set date: Press Menu button or Function button A to enter Set date option. Press Right/Left button select value, and press Up/Down button to set the Date, time and format. Press Menu button to confirm and exit. Beep Sound Auto Power off The default setting is will be automatically power off if your camera is idle for I minute.
  • Page 21 Language You can select your language per your request. 1. Press Up/Down button repeatedly to select Language in Set up menu. 2. Press Menu button or Function button A. 3. Press Up/Down button to select a language you want to use. 4.
  • Page 22 Note: Now you can press Function button B to exit. 3. Press Up/Down button to select OK. 4. Press Menu button or Function button A to confirm. 5. Press Right/Left button to select “Yes” to format, “No” to exit. 6. Press Menu button or Function button A to confirm. Default Setting If your camera setting is in a confused status, you can execute this function to your camera original setting.
  • Page 23 3. Press Up/Down button to select OK: set to default setting, Cancel: to exit. 4. Press Menu button or Function button A to confirm. 5. Press Right/Left button to select: Yes: set to default No: exit the menu 6. Press Menu button to confirm. Cancel This is for you to exit the menu manually, select it in setup menu and press down Joystick button to exit.
  • Page 24 1. The file you recorded will be saved as AVI format. 2. When the camera's memory is full, the “Memory Full Insert a SD Memory Card to Transfer and Shoot More video!” message will appear on the LCD screen when you attempt shoot more videos. Download the test file from the internal memory to the PC or delete them to shoot more videos.
  • Page 25 1. Press Function button A/Function button B repeatedly to zoom the photo. 2. Press Menu button. 3. Press Up/Down/Left/Right button to preview the photo more clearly. 4. You can press Function button B to zoom back out it. Note: when you select a file is JPEG file, then the icon will display on the LCD screen.
  • Page 26 3. Press Up/Down button to select how much degrees you want to rotate. 4. Press Menu button or Function button A. Note: 1. “Rotate and Saving” will show on the LCD after you pressed down Joystick button to confirm. 2. You can press Function button B to exit in each menu. Protect You can protect your photos/videos from accidental deletion.
  • Page 27 At step 3, select “Unlock” and press Menu button or Function button A to unlock the current file. Note: You can press Function button B to exit in each menu. Delete Delete unwanted photos and videos at any time to free up memory. You can delete one image or video clip at a time or delete all the unprotected photos and videos that are currently recorded on the memory card at once.
  • Page 28 Crop Image Crop your photos to show only a specific portion of an image or to highlight certain focal points. The Crop feature lets you zoom in on an image and then save that part of the image as a new photo. 1.
  • Page 29 Print Your camera allows you to print the photos with printer. The operation as below: 1. Select a photo you want to print. 2. Press Menu button. 3. Press Right/Left button to select icon , the function menu as below: 4.

  • Page 30: Install Photags Express Software

    2. Press Up/Down button to select “Play”. 3. Press Menu button to start playing. Note: For how to protect, delete photos/videos, please refer to Operation of still photos. Install PhoTags Express Software NOTE: Make sure that your camera is not connected to the computer. Insert software CD to your computer.
  • Page 31 And then the installer window will be shown as below. After you click “Install Photags Express” button, there will be showing some windows that help you to finish the installing. You are only required to follow the description and click the buttons that it’s defaulted by the software.

  • Page 32: Everything You Need To Get The Most From Your Photos

    After this step, the main window will appear on the screen. Everything you need to get the most from your photos 1. Select photos Select the photos that you download from your camera. And edit it in the software. 2. Edit photos Click the “Enhance photos”, “Add captions”...

  • Page 33: Download Photos To Your Pc

    Download photos to your PC Turn on your camera, connect your camera to the computer correctly with USB cable, a “MSDC” will show on the LCD screen. The screen of PC will be shown a window (Removable Disk H:) as below: NOTE: Now you can copy the photos to your computer with two method as below: 1.
  • Page 34 The “Get Photos” wizard mode will appear on the screen, you can select “custom copy” to download photos with your individuation. Or you can select “Express” option to download all photos to the computer without the option of selecting photos. In this mode you will not see a preview of the photos transferred. Custom copy This mode is used to manually select the photos you wish to copy to your computer.
  • Page 35 Add active captions to the picture. With this feature you can add a date, keywords and categories. Click “Next” to continue. Choose a position where you want to place the photos. Click “Finish” to copy the photos to the location you selected.

  • Page 36: Photags Express Software Owner Manual

    Photags Express software owner manual You can edit, printing, sharing photos with Photags Express. You can operate it as following step to know how to use Photags Express: Launch the Photags Express. Click “tour” button on the main window to view how to use the Photags Express in detail. Attention：...

  • Page 37: Camera Maintenance

    Camera Maintenance Your camera is a delicate instrument - please handle it with care. Appendix A: Technical Specifications Image Sensor CMOS Sensor 4000x3000(12M); 3264x2448(8M); 3648x2048(7MP HD); 2592x1944 (5M); Image Resolution 2048*1536(3M); 1920x1080 (2M HD); 640x480(VGA) Video Resolution 640x480(VGA), 320x240(QVGA) LCD Display 2.7”...
  • Page 38 Anti-shake Flash Auto/On/Off/Red eye reduction PictBridge Smile Capture Continue Shot Face Detection Interface USB 2.0 System Requirements Windows XP/VISTA//7 Mac Battery Lithium Battery 0-40 ℃ Working Temperature Dimension (mm) 95 x 62 x 25 mm...

  • Page 39: Appendix B: Troubleshooting

    Appendix B: Troubleshooting Q: I have taken photos but my computer does not recognize my camera. What do I do? First, ensure that you have in fact taken photos. Press the Shutter button a few times to take some sample photos and then try downloading them again.

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