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  • Page 1 Instructions for Use Important: Please read before using and retain for future reference...
  • Page 2 Welcome his is a digital video camera of exceptional quality and value. You will be able to capture videos and edit pictures; then send and share them with friends and family. his digital video camera not only functions as a digital camera for taking pi ctures, but is also able to record video and audio.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Back…………………………………………………………………………………… ………10 Left……………………………………………………………………………………………10 Right……………………………………………………………………………………………11 Battery status indicator…………………………………………………………………………11 Charging the battery…………………………………………………………………………12 3.How to use digital video camera…..……..…..……………..………13 Preparations before operation………………………………………………… ……………13 4.Begin to use digital video camera …..……..…..……………..………14 Function list…………………………………………………………………………………14 Video mode……………………………………………………………………………17 Status indicator…………………………………………………………………………17 Hotkey menu…………………………………………………………………………17 Capturing video ……………………………………………………………………19 Video playback…………………………………………………………………………21 Video playback menu……………………………………………………………………22...
  • Page 4 Exposure adjustment…………………………………………………………………………26 Color effects……………………………………………………………………………26 Auto shutter………………………………………………………………………………26 Select date indicator………………………………………………………………………26 Return to photo mode………………………………………………………………………27 Flash light function……………………………………………………………………………27 How to take a picture………………………………………………………………………27 Capturing close-up photos……………………………………………………………………27 Capturing general photos……………………………………………………… ………… …27 Photo playback…………………………………………………………………………27 Photo playback menu……………………………………………………………………27 Exit photo playback menu……………………………………………………………32 M P 3 p l a y e r … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 3 2 How to playback MP3 music…………………………………………………………………32 Volume control……………………………………………………………………………33 Previous, next song…………………………………………………………………………33...
  • Page 5 P r e s t o ! M r. P h o t o 3 … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 4 8 XviD codec for PC…………………………………………………………………………..49 8.Appendix: digital video camera specificaions…………..…52 9.Troubleshooting…..…..………………..…………….…..….…..55...

  • Page 6: Precautions

    ●Copyright related issues All images captured by digital video camera, unless authorized by the rights holder, shall not violate copyright laws. In addition, if filming is prohibited for live performances and exhibitions, even if just for personal use filming is not allowed. Memory card transfers of data and copyrighted images should be bound within the range of copyright lays and not be exceeded.

  • Page 7: Precautions Before Operation

    2. To avoid scratches to the lens LCD screen surface, and view window, please do not bump the digital video camera against hard objects. 3. Please wipe the digital video camera exterior with a soft dry cloth and do not use cleaners or volatile solutions, or the digital video camera exterior shell and paint will disfigure and...

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    Package contents Digital Video camera wrist strap Leather case and Lens cap strap Headphones USB cable Audio IN/OUT cable Video IN/TV OUT cable Lens cap DC IN 5V Adapter LBC003 charger stand （please base on actual DC-IN Connector (optional) content）...
  • Page 9 ●Digital Video camera ●wrist strap ●Leather case and ●Lens cap strap ●Headphones ●USB cable ●Audio IN/OUT cable ●Video IN/TV OUT cable ●Lens cap ●DC-IN Connector ●DC IN 5V Adapter（please base on actual content） ●LBC003 charger stand (optional) ●NP-60 Li-Ion battery (optional) ●...

  • Page 10: Understanding Digital Video Camera

    2. Understanding Digital video camera D igital Video Camera construction Top view: 1. Shutter button 1. Shutter button - filming 2. MUSIC button – enters MP3 playback mode. 3. zoom button/volume 3. ZOOM button – Digital zoom control button (under radio and MP3 playback...

  • Page 11: Connector Ports

    1. USB port – Through the USB port connecting to a PC, the user can transfer photos, video, or audio to and from the digital video camera and PC; or using the digital video camera as a PC web cam. The unit can also connect through a USB adapter with Pen-Driver to perform data transfer.

  • Page 12: Left

    Left: 1. Up button (▲) – Under different menu selections enables the up selection, plays the previous song, photo, etc. Under photo mode, different flash modes can also be selected. 2. Down button (▼) –Under different MENU selections enables the down selection, plays the next song, photo, etc.

  • Page 13: Charging The Battery

    Charging the battery Insert the battery into the charger as shown and connect the power supply to the charging unit and the mains supply. Before insert the battery, the charger indicate light shows green. Inserting the battery, the charger indicate light shows red, and the battery is in charging.

  • Page 14: How To Use Digital Video Camera

    3. How to use DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA Preparations before operation ●First step: Please insert four AA alkaline or rechargable batteries and check the battery life. If battery life is low, please immediately replace the batteries to ensure proper digi eo camera operation.

  • Page 15: Begin To Use Digital Video Camera

    To remove the memory card, first lightly press the memory card the memory card will automatically pop up. Note: When the memory card is inserted in the digital video camera, will turn off the camera beforehand and require a restart. The built-in 32MB memory will be automatically disabled.
  • Page 16 Movie mode Photo mode...
  • Page 17 MP3 playback mode...
  • Page 18 Setup mode Audio mode...

  • Page 19: Video Mode

    Video mode [ ] Rotate the mode selection button to [Movie] Status indicator Movie mode indicator Image format White balance Color effects Image quality Battery status Image size Digital zoom status Built-in storage status Hotkey menu Under movie mode, continuously press the confirm button left of the LCD screen to access the hotkey function selection;...

  • Page 21: Capturing Video

    Capturing video T his digital video camera can capture video in MPEG4 format. Under movie mode, press the MENU button to enter the movie menu. Under the movie menu page, possible controls are as below: Select image size: 1. Press the up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the size option and press the confirm button 2.
  • Page 22 Image quality options: Best, standard. Select white balance mode: 1. Press the up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the white balance option and press the confirm button 2. Use the up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select your desired white balance mode and press the confirm button .

  • Page 23: Video Playback

    MP4 files not created by this camera, please rename the MP4 file name in the format as MPEG0001 before copying to the digital video camera. The 4 digits after "MPEG" should be changed accordingly to the number of files already stored on the camera. The file extensions should be either AVI or ASF (please make sure the file type is supported by the camera: AVI, ASF) and then copy the file to the directory DCIM/100FSCAM on the camera.

  • Page 24: Video Playback Menu

    Video playback menu: Under the video playback mode, press the MENU button to return to the playback menu. Delete single video 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the single choice to delete, then press the confirm button 2.

  • Page 25: Photo Mode

    to either delete all files or cancel deletion (protected files cannot be deleted). P rotect single video 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the single choice to protect, then press the confirm button 2. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to confirm or cancel, press the confirm button to either protect single video or cancel protection, a lock icon will now appear on the upper right corner of the screen (apply protection to protected files to unprotect it).
  • Page 26 access the hotkey function selection; this can control the captured video such as: Image file size, exposure, image quality, white balance, self-timer, color effect setups. After pressing the , press the up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select each submenu. confirm button The control procedures are as below:...

  • Page 27: Focus Locking

    Focus locking:...

  • Page 28: Photo Menu

    When pressing the shutter button to the first stage, a green [ ] indicates the image is focused. Photo menu: Setup the desired options before filming. Press MENU button to access the photo menu. The control procedures are as below: Select image size: 1.

  • Page 29: Select White Balance Mode

    Image quality options: best, standard. Select white balance mode: 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select white balance option, then press the confirm button 2. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select your desired white balance mode, press the confirm button White balance options: auto, sun light, cloudy, light bulb, florescent light.

  • Page 30: Return To Photo Mode

    How to take a picture: ●Step one Make sure the digital video camera is turned on ●Step two Aim the digital video camera at the object to capture, and view the filming angle m the LCD screen ●Step three Press the shutter button slightly to the first stage to lock the focus ●Step four Press the shutter button to the second stage, when capturing the picture, the LCD...

  • Page 31: Photo Playback Menu

    JPG format) 2. Under the photo playback mode, press the up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select photo to playback. Photo playback menu: Under photo playback mode, press the MENU button to display the photo playback menu. Control procedures are as below: Delete single photo 1.
  • Page 32 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the single photo choice to protect, then press the confirm button 2. Press up button ▲or down button ▼ to select Confirm or Cancel, press the confirm button to either protect single file or cancel protection, a lock icon will now appear on the upper right corner of the screen.
  • Page 33 supported printer. DPOF set single 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the “DPOF” option, then press the confirm button 2. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to set the single option, then press the confirm button to enter the single setting interface.
  • Page 34 Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the print option, then press the confirm button . Connect the digital video camera and printer with the USB cable and after successful connection is established the digital video camera will show print single and print all options.

  • Page 35: Exit Photo Playback Menu

    Print single 1. At the print menu, Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select to print single and then press the confirm button to go to the print single interface. 2. At the print single interface, with the hint to connect to printer, connect the digital video camera to printer with the USB cable.

  • Page 36: Volume Control

    How to play music: Under MUSIC playback mode, press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select songs, then press confirm button to playback music (if there is no music file on the camera, then connect the camera to a computer as a removable storage disk first (please refer to: 8. How to connect to computer), then copy the song files to the MUSIC folder on the camera.

  • Page 37: Stop Playback

    Stop playback During music playback, press the confirm button to stop music playback. Control procedures are as below:...

  • Page 38: Mp3 Player Menu

    MP3 player menu W hen playback is stopped, press the MENU button to display the menu. Delete single track 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the single track choice to delete, then press the confirm button 2.

  • Page 39: Return To Mp3 Player Interface

    to either protect single track or cancel protection, a lock icon will now appear on the upper right corner of the screen. Delete all tracks 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select all to delete, then press the confirm button 2.

  • Page 40: Recording Playback

    Recording playback: Under audio mode, press the playback button to go to the recording playback mode. If the audio to to be playbacked is not created by this camera, please rename the audio file name in the format as WAVE0001.wav. The suffix "0001" of "WAVE" should be changed accordingly to the number of audio files already stored on the camera.

  • Page 41: A U D I O P L A Y B A Ck Me N

    Audio playback menu: Under audio playback mode, press the MENU button to display the audio playback menu. Delete single audio 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select the single audio choice to delete, then press the confirm button 2.
  • Page 42 1. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to select all audio to protect, then press the confirm button 2. Press up button ▲ or down button ▼ to confirm or cancel, press the confirm button to either unprotect all audio or cancel undo protection (only undo protected files). Procedures as below: :Start / Stop...

  • Page 43: Ex It Au D Io P La Yb A Ck Men

    Exit audio playback menu: Under the audio playback menu interface, press the MENU button to exit audio playback m interface; press the playback button to return to audio mode. Setup mode After pressing the MENU button anywhere, then press DISP/SET button to enter the setup mode.

  • Page 44: Setup

    9. Frequency 10. Copy to card Setup options Under the setup mode, press the up button ▲ or down button ▼ to modify the options, and press the confirm button to perform setup. Date/time: yr/mo/date/hr/min/sec Button beep: on/off Format: confirm/cancel Factory defaults: confirm/cancel Memory info: video file count/photo file count/MP3 file count/audio file count/free space Language: English/Traditional Chinese/Simplified...

  • Page 45: Exit Setup

    Exit setup To exit setup mode, press the DISP/SET button to return to the interface before pressing MENU button; then press MENU button to return to the interface before that. 5. Video/audio out...

  • Page 46: How To Connect To Pc

    You can use the “video/audio out” on the digital video camera to output the video/audio to an external device (such as: TV), the method is as below: ●Step one Insert the black plug of the TV cable to the TV port on the back of the digital video mera, and the yellow plug to the video in of the TV.
  • Page 47 The digital video camera can also function as a webcam/storage device, procedures as below: ●Step one Make sure the digital video camera is installed with ur “AA” batteries/NP-60 Li-ion battery. ●Step two Connect the smaller end of the USB cable plug to the...

  • Page 48: System Requirements

    System requirements: During operation and use of the digital video camera, please refer to the minimum system requirements for the digital video camera. We strongly suggest you operate the digital video camera on higher level PC equipment for even greater performance. The digital video camera...
  • Page 49 For Microsoft Windows98SE/Me users, please connect the larger USB plug to the PC USB port and the other end to the digital video camera USB port after installing the drivers and application software. When the camera enters the “connection to PC” page, press the up button ▲ or down button ▼...
  • Page 50 PC webcam. Removable storage The digital video camera is able to provide removable storage functions as a card reader. You can use this camera as an SD card, removable disk. If your operating system is Windows 98SE, you will need to install the camera drivers. Windows XP/ME/2000 operating systems supports Plug-and-play and does not require manual installation of drivers.

  • Page 51: Driver Installation

    Displays the below screen. Install Press the install button to install the drivers. Please follow the on screen instructions. Press “finish” to restart the PC and complete the driver installation. Load the driver 1. Insert the included CD into the CD-ROM. 2.

  • Page 52: P R E S T O ! Vi D E O Wo R K

    2 . Presto! Video Works 6 Presto! Video Works 6 is an advanced application software for video editing. Install Presto! Video Works 6： 1. Insert the included CD into the CD-ROM. 2. If the CD does not auto-run, use Windows file manager to run the executable InstallMgr.exe under the root directory on the CD.

  • Page 53: Xvid Codec For Pc

    4. XviD codec for PC Installing the XviD codec program Insert the Software CD supplied into the CD-ROM drive Please double click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop. Then double click the CD-ROM drive icon and click the setup file of Xvid in the root directory In some PC users’ settings will execute AutoRun when CD-ROM is inserted, in this case please click right button to open the CD-ROM drive icon for access to the Xvid setup file in the root directory..
  • Page 54 Click "Browse" to select the folder location and click "Next" to continue. Click "Browse" if you want to select a different program folder or click "Next" to continue. Enter the additional tasks setup screen and press "Next" to continue.
  • Page 55 Enter the main program setup screen and press "Install" to start the installation. During the installation, press "Cancel" if you want to stop setup. 10. The following screen will appear after the installation is completed. Click "Finish" to complete the installation.

  • Page 56: Digital Video Camera Specifications

    8. Digital video camera specifications Digital video camera specifications: ●Lens: f=8.4 mm ●Sensor: 5.17Mega pixel cmos sensor ●Aperture: F / 2.8, 8.0 ●Exposure: ISO 100 ●White balance setting: Auto, sun light, light bulb, florescent light, cloudy ●Shutter: Mechanical shutter + electrical shutter ●Shutter speed: 1/4 sec ~ 1/500 sec...
  • Page 57 PHOTO/VIDEO CAPACITY FOR DIFFERENT MEMORY SIZE 256M MODE SIZE QUALITY 32MB 64MB 128MB 512MB FILE 2min1 4min 8min 16min 37min 1hr44min FINE 6sec 24sec 56sec 39sec 20sec 14min 45sec 640 X 1hr14 2min 4min 9min 17min 38min 2hr17min NORMAL MOVIE 19sec 27sec 44sec...
  • Page 58 3hr25 8hr57min 6min 12min 26min NORMAL 51min 1hr37min 18sec 20sec 40sec 07sec 36sec FINE 12MP NORMAL 1309 FINE 1021 NORMAL 2011 1010 FINE 1585 PHOTO NORMAL 3056 1571 JPEG FINE 2540 1280 NORMAL 5109 1252 2500 FINE 4133 1040 2090 NORMAL 8232 2080...

  • Page 59: Troubleshooting

    Do not attempt to disassemble and please return for repair. For error messages appearing when entering direct printing service, you Error message should remove the USB plug from the digital video camera and check when entering whether the printer is functioning properly; and the digital video camera is direct printing sufficiently charged.
  • Page 60 This product is covered by the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) regulations. It should not be discarded with normal household waste, but taken to your local collection centre for recycling. For further information, please contact the local authority or approved disposal agency. Satisfaction Guaranteed We promise to provide quality products and service at value for money prices.
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