G s Camera Capturing, saving and editing etting tarted June 2006 Getting started Camera Contents Introduction ............................................................................................... 2 Instruction symbols ................................................................................ 2 Camera ...................................................................................................... 3 Taking a picture or recording a video clip ............................................. 4 Camera functionality .............................................................................. 4 Camera options ..................................................................................... 5 Editing pictures with PhotoDJTM ............................................................ 8 Video recorder ......................................................................................... 11 Capturing a video clip .......................................................................... 11 Video recorder options ........................................................................ 11 Handling pictures and video clips ........................................................... 12 Picture and video clip formats ............................................................. 13 Viewing your pictures and video clips ................................................. 13 Use a camera picture as a screen saver or wallpaper ......................... 14 Assigning a picture to a phone contact ............................................... 15 VideoDJTM ................................................................................................ 15 VideoDJTM options ............................................................................... 17 Sharing pictures and video clips ............................................................. 17 Transferring pictures and video clips to your computer ...................... 17 Exchanging pictures and video clips ................................................... 17 Related information ................................................................................. 18 1 June 2006 Getting started Camera Introduction Instruction symbols The following instruction symbols may appear in this Getting started guide: Note Some icons in user documentation may differ from those below. Indicates that a service or function is network- or subscription-dependent. Contact your network operator for details. % See also page ... Use the selection keys or the navigation key to scroll and select. Press the navigation key centre. Press the navigation key up. Press the navigation key down. Press the navigation key left. Press the navigation key right. } Your mobile phone has two built-in cameras. The main camera is a 2.0 mega pixel and includes up to 2.5x digital zoom for still images and 4x digital zoom for video recording. There is also a VGA video call camera, located above the screen, that activates during a video call. The horizontal user interface means you can handle the camera more easily. The phone memory capacity is up to 16 MB internally and can be extended with a Memory Stick MicroTM (M2TM), also referred to as a memory card. A 64 MB Memory Stick MicroTM (M2TM) is supplied. You can save your camera pictures in three different sizes: 2 MP 1600×1200, 1 MP 1280×960, VGA 640×480. This allows you to decide on the number of pictures you can save in your phone memory/ on your memory card. Before taking a picture, you can change settings and add effects or frames. After taking a picture, you can use the PhotoDJTM to add effects, frames or clipart objects to your taken picture. As soon as you take pictures or video clips, you can send them in a picture message (MMS), as email attachments or send them to a blog. You can also use a picture as a screen saver or wallpaper, or save it together with a contact so that the picture appears when that person calls. To use email and picture messaging (MMS), you must subscribe to these services. Please check with your network operator. You can also exchange pictures using the USB cable that comes with your phone or BluetoothTM wireless technology. 2 June 2006 Getting started Camera Blog You can send pictures to a blog if you have started one and if your subscription supports it. See % 5 Blog. For more information, contact your service provider or www.sonyericsson.com/support. Camera Activating the camera and video recorder To activate the camera/video recorder from standby mode, press and hold the camera button in the menu overview. or scroll to Camera , Camera button Keys used in camera mode 3 1 Selection key 2 Selection key Navigation key 1, 2 Areas used to show functions such as View, Settings and Select. To select a function, press the relevant selection key. 3 Area used to show the camera or video function selection. Use the navigation key to switch between the functions in the viewfinder. 3 June 2006 Getting started Camera Taking a picture or recording a video clip 1. Activate the camera, from standby mode press and hold the camera button . 2. Press or to switch between camera and video recorder. on the screen shows the current setting. 3. Press to take a picture or start recording. 4. Press again to end video recording. · Press to return to the viewfinder to take another picture or record another clip. · To deactivate the camera or the video recorder, press and hold . The picture is saved in your phone memory/on your memory card and can be found in File manager } Camera album. Camera functionality The camera has functions such as take a self-portrait picture or take a rapid sequence of pictures. You can zoom in on an object or adjust the brightness. } Settings to view more options before you take a picture. Take a self-portrait Mirror Hold the phone so that you can see your reflection in the mirror next to the lens. Press picture. You can also use the self-timer, % 6 Turn on self-timer. to take the To use the zoom Volume buttons Use the volume buttons on the side of the phone to zoom. Press the right or left arrow buttons to zoom in or out. 4 June 2006 Getting started Camera Brightness The brightness determines how much white is added to each colour in a picture. To adjust brightness 1. From standby mode press and hold the camera button to activate the camera. 2. Use the navigation key to adjust brightness. Press once to decrease brightness or once to increase brightness. Press and hold to continuously increase or decrease the brightness. Blog Send pictures to publish in a blog if your subscription supports it. Web services may require a separate licence agreement between you and your service provider. In some locations, additional regulations and/or charges may apply. For more information, contact your service provider. To send a just taken picture to a blog 1. When viewing a picture you have just taken } More } Blog this. 2. Add title and text } OK } Publish to send a picture to your blog. 3. Follow the instructions that appear for first-time use, for example, approve terms and conditions. A text message is sent to your phone with your Web address and log-in information. You can save the address as a bookmark or forward the text message for others to access your Web page photos. To send a picture to a blog from File manager 1. } File manager and select a picture in a folder. } More } Send } To blog. 2. Add title and text } OK } Publish. 3. Follow the instructions that appear for first-time use, for example, approve terms and conditions. To add a blog address to a contact 1. 2. 3. 4. } Contacts and select a contact. } More } Edit contact. } Web address: and enter the address to a blog. } Save to save the address. You can also save as a bookmark, see Using the Internet Getting started guide. To visit a blog address in a contact } Contacts and select a contact web address } Go to. Camera options When taking a picture, you can select different settings to personalize or change the appearance of the picture. You can, for example, use Panorama to combine several pictures into one wide picture. You can also select Picture size for saving your picture in 2 MP 1600×1200, 1 MP 1280×960, VGA 640×480. Turn on self-timer makes it possible for the photographer to participate in the picture too. Effects provides several colour selections to choose from and White balance gives you the best colour options for your surroundings. 5 June 2006 Getting started Camera To enter the Settings menu When the camera is activated } Settings to view more options before you take a picture. Switch to video camera ­ to record a video clip, Switch to still camera ­ to take a picture. shows the current setting. on the screen Shoot mode · Normal ­ no frame. · Panorama ­ to combine several pictures into one wide picture. · Frames ­ to add a frame to your picture. When you have selected Frames, a frame is shown on the screen. Use the navigation key to scroll through Frames. When you select Frames, the picture size is automatically set to 640×480 pixels. · Burst ­ take a rapid sequence of pictures. Picture size · 2 MP 1600×1200 · 1 MP 1280×960 · VGA 640×480 If you are going to send a picture message (MMS), please note that some phones (that support pictures) cannot receive picture sizes of more than 160×120. You can resize a high-resolution picture before you send it. In the bottom left corner of the screen you can see the number of pictures that can be saved in your phone memory/on your memory card. Note that this number changes as you change the picture size. If you select a smaller picture size, you can save more pictures than if you select a bigger picture size. Turn on self-timer When the self-timer is selected, the picture is taken 8 ­10 seconds after beeps slowly and then more quickly just before the picture is taken. is pressed. The self-timer Effects You can select different effects for your picture. See some examples below: · Off: No effect. The picture will be just as it appears in the viewfinder. 6 June 2006 Getting started Camera · Black & white: This effect allows you to take black & white pictures. · Negative: This effect inverts red, green and blue separately, and to varying degrees. · Sepia: The sepia effect gives the picture a brownish-red tint. Old film and photographs used to have a sepia tone. This effect can help you make a picture appear older. 7 June 2006 Getting started Camera White balance The white balance effect adjusts the picture colour balance according to the lighting conditions. Normally our eyes compensate for lighting conditions with different colour temperatures. A digital camera needs to find a reference point which represents white. It will then calculate all the other colours based on this white point. For example, if a halogen light illuminates a white wall, the wall will appear yellow, while in fact it should be white. So if the camera knows the wall is supposed to be white, it will then compensate for all the other colours in the scene accordingly. Most digital cameras feature automatic white balance where the camera looks at the overall colour of the image and calculates the best white balance. However, these systems may not work properly if the scene is dominated by one colour or if there is no natural white. To adjust White balance manually, choose between Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent and Incandescent. Before taking the actual picture, you can focus on an area in the scene which should be white or neutral grey, or on a plain white or grey background. The camera will then use this reference when taking the actual picture. Picture quality You can select the quality you would like for your picture. Normal picture quality will use less memory space than Fine picture quality. Shutter sound Choose between four different shutter sounds. The shutter sound will be turned off if the phone is set to silent. Press and hold to set the phone to silent. Turn on time and date Add the time and date to your picture. It appears in red text in the lower right corner of the picture. The text is only legible when viewed at 1:1 size. Use zoom when viewing the picture to see the text. Reset file number Resets the numbering for pictures saved in your phone memory/on your memory card. Save to Select to save pictures in your phone memory/on your memory card. If memory is full, you cannot save anything until you have deleted some files. When you have taken a picture } More for additional options. Editing pictures with PhotoDJTM To edit pictures taken with the camera or downloaded to the phone, you should consider the following: · Picture types WBMP and GIF can be edited if they are no larger than a picture size of 320×240. · Animated GIF and progressive JPEG cannot be edited. · Picture type JPEG can be edited if it is no larger than a picture size of 2048×1536. You can edit a pict ...