User manual SONY ERICSSON K610I - CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDER

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 picture by adding clipart, effects and frames using the picture editor tool, PhotoDJTM. 8 June 2006 Getting started Camera To open PhotoDJTM When the PhotoDJTM is started you can begin to edit using the tools in the toolbar. The PhotoDJTM automatically makes a copy of the picture that you want to edit. The copy is not saved to memory until you have selected Save picture. To open PhotoDJTM when Camera is in shoot mode 1. From standby mode press and hold the camera button 2. Take a picture } More } Edit in PhotoDJTM. to activate the camera. To open PhotoDJTM when Camera is in standby mode 1. From standby mode press and hold the camera button 2. } View and scroll to the desired picture in Camera album. 3. } More } Edit in PhotoDJTM. to activate the camera. To open PhotoDJTM from File manager 1. } File manager } Camera album or } Pictures and scroll to the desired picture. 2. } More } Edit in PhotoDJTM. To open PhotoDJTM from Entertainment 1. } Entertainment } PhotoDJTM } Open. 2. Scroll to the picture that you want to edit } Select. To exit the PhotoDJTM Press to exit the PhotoDJTM. The Toolbar When editing pictures press , , , . Auto level Automatically adjusts the contrast in a picture. Light balance Adjust the light balance with the horizontal slide. Bright/contrast Adjust the brightness with the vertical slide. Adjust the contrast with the horizontal slide. Red-eye rem. Select this option to remove the red eye colour in pictures. Rotate Rotate the picture from landscape view to portrait view or vice versa. The rotation is 90º clockwise. 9 June 2006 Getting started Camera Add effect Negative Cartoon Frosted glass Painting 10 June 2006 Getting started Camera Add item · Add clipart: Select a clipart item and use the navigation key to place it on the picture. Use the volume buttons to enlarge or reduce the size of the clipart. · Add frame: Select to add a frame to your picture. · Text: Select to add some text to your picture and use the navigation key to place it on the picture. Use the volume keys to enlarge or reduce the size of the clipart. Video recorder Capturing a video clip 1. Make sure the video recorder is activated. From standby mode press and hold the camera button or open from menu. 2. Press or to switch between camera and video recorder. on the screen indicates the current setting. 3. Press to start recording. To end the video recording, press again. 4. The video clip is saved in your phone memory/on your memory card and can be found in } File manager } Camera album. 5. If you want to delete the video clip immediately, press the button. 6. Press to return to the viewfinder to record another video clip. 7. Press and hold to exit the camera. You can transfer video clips saved in your phone memory/on your memory card to a computer % 17 Transferring pictures and video clips to your computer, and view them by using the QuickTimeTM player software that can be installed from the CD which is included with the phone. Video recorder options You can select different settings to personalize or change the appearance of a video clip. For example, Effects provides several options, and White balance gives you the best colour options for your surroundings. To enter the Settings menu When the video camera is activated } Settings to view more options before you take a video clip. 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 · For picture message if you would like to send a video clip as a picture message (MMS). · High quality video if you would like to record a long, high-quality video clip. A video clip recorded using this shoot mode may be too large to send as a picture message (MMS). 11 June 2006 Getting started Camera Turn on night m. In dark environments, the night mode effect enhances picture quality with longer exposure time. Please note that due to a longer exposure time, the camera is more sensitive to movements. A half-moon icon appears below the screen when night mode is turned on. When night mode is turned off the half-moon icon disappears. Effects Select different effects for your video clip % 6 Effects. · · · · Off: No effect. Black & white: The video clip is given a black & white effect. Negative: This effect inverts the red, green, and blue colours separately, and to varying degrees. Sepia: The sepia effect gives a video clip a brownish-red tint. Old films and photographs used to have a sepia tone and this effect can help you make a video clip appear older. White balance Adjusts the colour balance according to the lighting conditions % 8 White balance. Turn off mic. Turns the microphone on or off. A small icon appears below the screen when the microphone is turned off. When the microphone is turned on the icon disappears. Reset file number Resets the file numbering counter 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 recorded a video clip } More for additional options. Handling pictures and video clips Your phone comes with a number of pictures and video clips, which you can delete to free memory. All pictures and videos are saved in File manager. For more information on how to use the file manager, see the Managing files Getting started guide. The number of pictures and video clips that you can save depends on the size of the files. When taking pictures in VGA size, 300+ appears in the bottom left corner of the screen as long as the phone memory/ memory card is capable of saving more than 300 pictures. Once the memory exceeds the 300+ limit, the counter starts counting backwards. 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. 12 June 2006 Getting started Camera Picture and video clip formats Your pictures are saved in JPEG format and your video clips are saved in 3GP format. You must transfer files to a computer to change format. Your phone can receive and handle the following file types: · GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) · JPEG (Joint Photographer Expert Group) · WBMP (Wireless Bitmap - Wireless Application Protocol) · PNG (Portable Network Graphics) · BMP (Bitmap) · SVG-Tiny (Scalable Vector Graphics) · MP4 (algorithms with synthesis of speech and video, fractal compression, computer visualisation and artificial intelligence-based image processing techniques) · RealVideo 8 · WMV (Windows Media Video) Viewing your pictures and video clips To view your pictures and video clips 1. } File manager } Camera album. Note: Video clips edited with VideoDJTM will be saved in Videos. 2. Select a picture or a video clip } View or } More and select an option. To display pictures in a slide show 1. 2. 3. 4. } File manager } Camera album and select a picture. } View } More } Slide show. } Portrait or Landscape to view the slide show in either horizontal view or in vertical view. To end the slide show, press and hold . To view information about a picture or a video clip 1. } File manager } Pictures or Videos, select a file. 2. } More } Information. 13 June 2006 Getting started Camera Timeline view If you have saved several pictures in your phone memory/on your memory card, you can search for them by month or day depending on when they were taken or recorded. To search for a picture or video clip The magnifying glass in the bottom of the screen means that you can use the navigation key to select a picture. 1. } File manager } Camera album } Open. 2. } More } Timeline view and press or to switch between month or day. In Timeline view you choose a day or month that you want to view pictures from. In Browse mode you choose a picture and see which day or month the picture was taken. Remote screen Use a compatible Bluetooth accessory to view pictures on a remote screen such as a TV. Use the slide show function to show several pictures in succession. The accessory is not included with your phone. For a complete list of compatible accessories, please visit www.sonyericsson.com/support. To connect to a remote screen } File manager } Camera album or } Pictures } View } More } Remote screen. The phone searches for other Bluetooth devices and a list of available devices appears. Select the device to use. See the User guide for more information about connecting and using Bluetooth wireless technologym, or see the Synchronizing with a computer Getting started guide, provided on www.sonyericsson.com/support for details. Use a camera picture as a screen saver or wallpaper The phone has a screen saver that is automatically activated when the phone has been idle for a few seconds. After a few more seconds, the screen saver changes to sleep mode to save power. Press any key or button to activate the screen again. If you have a picture as wallpaper, this picture is shown in standby mode. To use a picture as a screen saver 1. } File manager } Camera album or } Pictures and select a picture. 2. } More } Use as and select an option. An animation of more than 1MB set as wallpaper may affect performance. 14 June 2006 Getting started Camera Assigning a picture to a phone contact You can add a picture to a saved phone contact. When that saved contact calls, the picture appears on the screen (provided your subscription supports the Calling Line Identification service). To add a picture to a contact 1. 2. 3. 4. } Contacts and select the contact you want to add a picture to } More } Edit contact. Scroll to the relevant tab, select Picture and } Add. Select Take picture to take a picture, or Camera album or Pictures to select an existing picture. } Save to save the picture to the contact. To add a picture from the file manager } File manager } Camera album or } Pictures and select picture } More } Use as } Contact picture. VideoDJTM Compose and edit your own storyboard by adding video clips, pictures or text. You can also use the trim function to delete unwanted parts and shorten a video clip. To create a video 1. } Entertainment } VideoDJTM. 2. } Add } Picture, Video clip, Text or Camera to add a saved or new item to the storyboard. The item and how long it lasts appear below. 3. To add another item, press to highlight the blank page and } Add. 4. Press and to select a storyboard item that may already be added. 5. } More } Save to save the video. 6. Name your video } OK. To edit a created video that is saved in File Manager 1. } File manager } Videos and select the video you want to open. 2. } More } VideoDJTM to launch VideoDJTM. 3. You can select and edit an item from a storyboard. } Edit to view the options. The options list for each item is different. 15 June 2006 Getting started Camera To edit a selected video clip 1. Select a video clip item from a storyboard. 2. } Edit to view the following options: · Trim to make a video clip shorter. An orange vertical marker appears, follow the horizontal yellow bar to decide where to set the start and end points. } Set and select Start/End. You can re-select the start and end points until satisfied. } Done to finish the trim. To watch the trimmed video clip } More } Play. · Add text to your video } OK. and to move and } Paste. · Copy a video clip from a storyboard. Use · Move a video clip to another location } Place. · Delete a video clip from a storyboard and } Yes. To edit a selected picture 1. Select a picture item from a storyboard. 2. } Edit to view the following options: · Duration to edit the duration of a picture in the video. Select between 1 - 8 seconds. · Delete a picture from a storyboard } Yes. · Move a picture to another location } Place. and to move and } Paste. · Copy a picture from a storyboard. Use To edit a selected text 1. Select a text item from a storyboard. 2. } Edit to view the following options: · Edit text to edit the text. · You can change the background to a different colour of the text item, to a picture or to the previous video (last frame) or next video (first frame) if these are available: } Colours } Background or Text colour and make selections. · Duration to edit the duration of the text in the video. Select between 1 - 8 seconds. · Delete a text item from a storyboard } Yes. · Move a text item to another location } Place. · Copy to copy a text item to another location. Use and to move and } Paste. To send a video clip from within VideoDJTM } More } Send and select one of the available transfer methods. To receive a video When you receive a video and choose to save it, it is saved in File manager/Videos. 16 June 2006 Getting started Camera VideoDJTM options While you are creating a video, there are even more options. } More to view the following options: · · · · · · · Play ­ If you want to view the current video clip. Send ­ If you want to send the current video clip using one of the available methods. Soundtrack ­ If you want to add a soundtrack to the current video clip. Transitions ­ If you want to add transitions between video clips, pictures and texts. Save ­ If you want to save the current video clip. Insert ­ If you want to insert an item into the current video clip. New video ­ If you want to create a new video clip. Sharing pictures and video clips Transferring pictures and video clips to your computer Using the USB cable, you can drag and drop camera pictures and video clips to a computer running Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Microsoft® Windows® XP or Mac OS X. See the Managing files Getting started guide at www.sonyericsson.com/support for details. Do not disconnect the USB cable during file transfer as this can damage the memory card. Exchanging pictures and video clips You can exchange pictures using the USB cable, picture messages (MMS), email or Bluetooth wireless technology. Please note that you are not allowed to exchange some copyright protected material. Before you send a picture or video clip using picture messaging (MMS) or email, make sure that settings are entered in your phone. The settings for picture messaging can be received by using the Sony Ericsson Phone setup for MMS at www.sonyericsson.com/support. For sending a picture or video clip using email, make sure that you have entered settings for your data and email accounts in your phone. For information on this, see the Email Getting started guide. You can also send pictures to publish on a blog, if you have started one and if your subscription supports it % 5 Blog. The file size is limited for a picture message. If a video is too long to be sent as a picture message, you can trim it to make it shorter. 17 June 2006 Getting started Camera To trim a video clip 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Select a video clip from the storyboard } Edit } Trim. } Set to set the start point and } Start. } Set to set the end point and } End. } Done or repeat steps 2 and 3. } More } Save. Name the trimmed video clip } OK. To send a picture } File manager } Pictures and scroll to a picture. } More } Send and select a transfer method. Or after taking a picture } Send and create your picture message (MMS). To send video clips } File manager } Videos and scroll to a video clip. } More } Send and select a transfer method. Or after recording a video clip } Send and create your picture message (MMS) to send the video clip. To receive and save a picture Open the message you received the picture in } Settings } Connectivity turn on the transfer method being used, for example, Bluetooth. All phones that support pictures can receive the picture size 160x120. Some phones cannot receive picture sizes of more than 160×120, % 6 Picture size for more information. If you received the picture in a message, } More } Save picture. If you received the picture via Bluetooth wireless technology, follow the instructions that appear on the screen. If the memory card is full, you cannot save any more pictures or video clips unless you delete or move files. Related information Support documents, software, settings and more information are available at www.sonyericsson.com/support. You can find the Managing files Getting started guide there. Trademarks and acknowledgements BluetoothTM is a trademark or registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG Inc. PlayNow, MusicDJ, PhotoDJ and VideoDJ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. 18 June 2006 Getting started Camera Microsoft® and Windows® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Memory Stick MicroTM and M2TM are registered trademarks of Sony Corporation. Real is a trademark or a registered trademark of RealNetworks, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. This Getting started guide is published by: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, SE-221 88 Lund, Sweden Phone: +46 46 19 40 00 Fax: +46 46 19 41 00 www.sonyericsson.com © Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, 2006. All rights reserved. You are hereby granted a license to download and/or print a copy of this document. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. 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