3. LCD screen 4. Display button 5. Left/Self-timer button 6. Menu button 7. OK/Flash button 8. Down/Zoom out button 9. Right/Continuous mode button 10. Up/Zoom in button 11. Speaker 12. Power button Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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1. Lens door switch 2. Port for USB/Video Cable/DC IN terminal 1. Hand strap holder 1. Shutter button 2. Mode selector 3. Tripod mount 4. Battery/SD card door Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
• Setting Self-timer..............23 • Zoom in and out ..............23 • Setting Exposure Compensation ..........24 • Setting White Balance ............25 4 Recording Video Clips ............... 26 • Recording Video Clips ............26 Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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• Capacity of SD Card ............. 52 • Using your batteries .............. 53 • Tips, Your Safety & Maintenance..........53 • Uninstalling Polaroid PDC 3150 Driver ........54 • Regulatory Information ............55 Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide...
1 Getting Started The PDC 3150 camera provides you easy-to-use features. It can never be easier and enjoyable. Go ahead and enjoy your operation. Here are a few examples of what you can do with your camera. Enjoy point & shoot operation. Take digital pictures in your preferable detail, like size and white balance.
PDC 3150 The CD-ROM includes Warranty Card Polaroid PDC 3150 Camera Driver ArcSoft PhotoImpression 4.0 (PC & Mac) Adobe Acrobat Reader (PC & Mac) User manual in PDF format 2 x AA Batteries Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
• How to Navigate Menus Use the 4-way control to select on-screen menu items. Press to scroll up and down through menus. Press to scroll left and right. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
• The camera automatically switches over to AC adaptor powered operation whenever the AC adaptor is plugged into the camera. • We recommend using the AC adaptor to power the camera whenever connected to a computer. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Auto white balance 10 Sec. self-timer Fine The number of pictures Normal 2 Sec. self-timer taken Auto flash mode Record mode Flash mode on Continuous mode Flash mode off Video mode Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Setting Exposure Compensation and Setting White Balance on page 24). Playback mode Playback or delete pictures/video clips from the camera. Video mode Using this mode to record video clips with sound. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Use OK button to select a field, such as year, month, day, hour, minute, use Up or Down button to adjust the value in the field. Press OK button after all fields are set. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
2. Press Menu button and use the Right button to select “SETUP MENU”. Press Press Press Press 3. After the above operation, press Menu button to exit. NOTE: The default setting is “On”. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
• Power save setting is available in all camera modes. • Auto power off is automatically disabled while the AC adaptor is connected to the camera or the camera is connected to PC. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
1. Turn on the camera. 2. Press Menu button and use the Right button to select “SETUP MENU”. Press Press Press Press 3. After the above operation, press Menu button to exit. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
1. Turn on the camera. 2. Press Menu button and use the Right button to select “SETUP MENU”. Press Press Press Press 3. After the above operation, press Menu button to exit. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
LCD screen. LCD screen on, LCD screen on, Information display on Information display off Press Display button LCD screen off, information display off Press Display Press Display button button Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Release your finger, recompose the scene and press the Shutter halfway to reset the focus. Framing Mark Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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When the flash mode is set to Off “ ”, the icon might appear on LCD screen to remind you to hold the camera steady. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Auto Flash Mode, the flash fires automatically as needed. Use this setting to take most pictures. Red eye, use this setting to avoid red glare in your subject’s eyes. The camera fires a brief, preflash flash before the regular flash. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
1. Set the Mode selector to Auto or Manual. 2. Turn on the camera. 3. Press Menu button and use the Right button to select “RESOLUTION”. Press Press Press 4. After the above operation, press Menu button to exit. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Therefore, the number of pictures you can store on a card may vary. The number of pictures on the LCD screen is for reference only. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
“zoom” in on the central area of a photo and photograph only the enlarged portion of the picture. 1. Set Mode selector to Auto or Manual. 2. Turn on the camera. 3. Press Up/Down button to zoom in/out the subject before taking a picture. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
• When shooting under very dark or very bright conditions, you may not be able to obtain satisfactory results even after performing exposure compensation. • Exposure compensation returns to its standard default setting (AUTO) once you turn off the camera. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
AUTO No Icon shown on LCD balance automatically.) DAYLIGHT Outdoor daylight SHADE Shade TUNGSTEN Indoors, illuminated by light bulbs Indoors, illuminated by fluorescent lighting FLUORESCENT Converts pictures to black and white BLACK&WHITE Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
When recording video clip, the video counter (in seconds) begins to count indicating the length of video clip. A red spot appears on LCD screen. Operation LED and the red spot blinks. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
3. Press the Display button, information display is off. 4. Press the Display button again, the thumbnail pictures will be shown on the LCD screen and the latest picture reviewed will be highlighted. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
4. Press OK button to start playing video clip, you can hear the sound of video clip from the Speaker. Press OK button to pause and press Menu button to stop Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
LCD screen after your setting. Press Menu button twice to exit. Protecting all pictures and video clips Press Press Press The protect icon appears on the LCD screen after your setting. Press Menu button to exit. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Select icon to return. If you want to exit, press Menu button. Deleting all pictures and video clips Press Press NOTE: NO IMAGE The protected file(s) cannot be deleted. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Inserting the SD (Secure Digital) card Turn off the camera and open the SD card door as illustrated. Insert the SD card, ensure the card is inserted the correct position as illustrated, close the SD card door. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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• Should water or any foreign objects ever get into the card slot, immediately turn off the camera, remove the batteries or disconnect the AC adaptor, and contact your dealer or nearest service provider. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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• Formatting a memory card destroys all the pictures/video clips, even those are protected. After the memory is formatted, a message “NO IMAGE” appears on the LCD screen. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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Remember to format a memory card if it was used in another digital camera or other devices. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
With this camera, you should always select images by viewing them on the LCD screen. Do not specify images by file name without viewing the file contents. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
For more detailed information, please go to the PRINT Image Matching website http://www.printimagematching.com. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
Our CD-ROM is tested and recommended to use under English Windows OS. • IMPORTANT! (For Windows® 98SE) On Windows® 98SE Mass Storage function needs to install the PDC 3150 Driver. IMPORTANT! (For Windows® ME, 2000, XP) Directly plug-in the camera to transfer and play the pictures and video clips, no need to install the driver, if you want to use PhotoImpression™...
4. Install the software included. • Software Included with Your Camera PDC 3150 Driver Plug & Play removable disk Easy to use, just plug the camera to a computer and use it as a removable disk. Use the Arcsoft® PhotoImpression™ 4.0 to edit and print the Pictures.
• 64MB RAM (128MB recommended) • 150MB Free disk space • Colour monitor with high colour (16-bit) graphic capability or higher • CD-ROM drive • Standard mouse and keyboard • Stereo speakers Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
1. Turn on the camera. 2. Plug the labelled end of the USB cable into the socket marked on your computer. 3. Plug the other end of the USB cable into the port on your camera. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
4. Double click the folder “INTERNAL”/“EXTERNAL” to enter sub-folder “DCIM”. 5. Double click the folder “DCIM” to enter directory folder. 6. You can copy the pictures and video clips from this directory folder and paste to the hard disk. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
TV screen. 4. When the mode selector is set to Playback, you can review all the pictures stored on the camera as described in Video out cable Playback. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
1. Turn on the camera. 2. Select the Mode selector to Playback mode. Press Press Press Press NOTE: TV output signal mode setting can also be accessed through the Manual mode. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
I see the following error Polaroid PDC 3150 driver first and install again. message during driver installs second time. installation. “An error occurred during move data process: -115 Component: \WIN98\ICO File Group: 98ICO File: C:” Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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Open the lens cover. Background of Status LCD is blank. Please also refer to the help files & User Guides that accompany the enclosed applications. For further information and support, please visit our website: http://www.polaroid-digital.com Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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Macro Mode being used for Set the Normal/Macro selector to of focus. scenery or portraits Normal for scenery and portraits Normal Mode being used for Set the Normal/Macro selector to macro images. Macro for macro images. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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TV and put it in its video mode Select the proper video output system. Please also refer to the help files & User Guides that accompany the enclosed applications. For further information and support, please visit our website: http://polaroid-digital.com Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
ArcSoft Europe Support Centre Tel: 61 (2) 9899-5888 (Ireland) Fax: 61 (2) 9899-5728 Tel: +353-(0) 61-702087 E-mail:support@supportgroup.com.au Fax: +353-(0) 61-702001 E-mail: europe@arcsoft.com Visit http:// www.arcsoft.com for technical support and frequently asked questions (FAQ’s). Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
• Using SD card 8 M - Approx. 90 sec. 16 M - Approx. 190 sec. 32 M - Approx. 390 sec. 64 M - Approx. 800 sec. 128 M - Approx. 1870 sec. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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• Auto Power Off: 1 minutes after power saving • Power Saving: User setting, in Capture/Playback mode with battery power in (OFF/1 minute/3 minutes) • Monitor • 1.5” TFT colour panel with LED back light Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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• 2 x AA batteries (included) • +3.3V DC Adaptor (not included) • Operating System: • For Windows® Users: Microsoft® Windows® 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP • For Macintosh® Users: Mac® OS Version 9.0, 9.0.4, 9.1. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
The AC Adaptor carries voltage which can be dangerous if live parts are exposed. We recommend that you regularly examine the AC adaptor for any breakage. NEVER try to repair or open the AC adaptor. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
NOTE: The following driver uninstall procedure is for Windows 98SE user only because only Windows 98SE needs to install the PDC 3150 driver. 1. Open Add/Removable Program Properties in Control Panel and select Polaroid PDC 3150 program, then click Add/Remove .
Shielded cable must be used with this unit to ensure compliance with the Class B FCC limits. Under the environment with electrostatic discharge, the product may malfunction and require user to reset the product. Polaroid PDC 3150 Digital Camera User Guide www.polaroid-digital.com...
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