G s Camera Capturing, saving and editing etting tarted January 2007 Getting started Camera Contents Introduction ............................................................................................... 2 Activating the camera and video recorder ................................................ 3 Camera ...................................................................................................... 4 Taking a picture or recording a video clip .............................................. 4 Camera functionality .............................................................................. 5 Camera options ...................................................................................... 6 Editing pictures with PhotoDJTM .......................................................... 10 Video recorder ......................................................................................... 13 Capturing a video clip .......................................................................... 13 Video recorder options ........................................................................ 13 Handling pictures and video clips ........................................................... 15 Picture and video clip formats ............................................................. 15 Viewing your pictures and video clips ................................................. 16 Use a camera picture as a screen saver or wallpaper ......................... 17 Assigning a picture to a phone contact ............................................... 17 Printing a picture with PictBridge ........................................................ 17 VideoDJTM ................................................................................................ 18 VideoDJTM options ............................................................................... 19 Sharing pictures and video clips ............................................................. 20 Transferring pictures and video clips to your computer ...................... 20 Exchanging pictures and video clips ................................................... 20 Related information ................................................................................. 21 1 January 2007 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 one built-in camera. The 2.0 megapixel main camera includes 4× digital zoom, auto focus. The horizontal user interface means you can handle the camera more easily. The built-in LED light allows you to take pictures in dark environments. The phone memory capacity is up to 64MB internally and can be extended with a Memory Stick MicroTM (M2TM), also referred to as a memory card. You can save your camera pictures in three different sizes: 2 MP 1632×1224, 1 MP 1280×960, VGA 640×480. This allows you to decide on the number of pictures you can be 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 the 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, BluetoothTM wireless technology or infrared (if supported by your phone). 2 January 2007 Getting started Camera PictBridgeTM Pictures taken with your camera can be printed directly on a PictBridge compatible printer using the USB cable or a memory card. No computer or additional photo editing software is needed, but the printer must be PictBridge compatible % 17 Printing a picture with PictBridge. Blog You can send pictures to a blog if you have started one and if your subscription supports it. See % 6 Blog. For more information, contact your service provider or www.sonyericsson.com/support. Activating the camera and video recorder To activate the camera/video recorder from standby mode, press and hold the camera button slide open the lens cover. and/or Mega Pixels Auto Focus You can also scroll to Cyber-shotTM in the menu overview. 3 January 2007 Getting started Camera Camera 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. Taking a picture or recording a video clip 1. Activate the camera, from standby press and hold the camera button or slide open the lens cover. 2. Press or to switch between camera and video. on the screen shows the current setting. 3. Press half way down to Focus. 4. Press all the way down to take a picture or start video. 5. Press again to end video recording. · Press to return to the viewfinder to take another picture or record another video. · To deactivate the camera or the video recorder, close the lens cover. The picture is saved in your phone memory/on your memory card and can be found in File manager } Camera album. 4 January 2007 Getting started Camera Camera functionality The camera has functions such as take a self-portrait picture. You can zoom in on an object, adjust the brightness or use the built-in LED light. } Settings to view more options before you take a picture. Take a self-portrait Mega Pixels Auto Focus Hold the phone so that you can see your reflection in the mirror next to the lens. Press the picture. You can also use the self-timer, % 7 Turn on self-timer. to take To use the zoom Use the volume buttons on the side of the phone to zoom in or out. Zoom is not available in all camera modes. Brightness The brightness determines how much white is added to each colour in a picture. To adjust brightness 1. Slide open the lens cover. 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. LED light Do not look directly at the camera LED light using a magnification device, such as a magnifying glass. Failure to comply with this warning may damage your eyes. You can enhance lighting conditions using the built-in LED light. You can turn the LED light on or off. 5 January 2007 Getting started Camera To turn on the camera light 1. Slide open the lens cover. 2. } Settings and scroll or to the light icon 3. Press to turn on the light. Repeat the steps to switch off the camera light. . 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. From menu } 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 1632×1224, 1 MP 1280×960, VGA 640×480. Scenes to adapt the camera to a bright, dark or fast moving surrounding. 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. 6 January 2007 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 ­ to take 4 pictures. You can later select the best of them. The picture size is automatically set to 640×480 pixels. Scenes · Auto ­ automatic settings for your surroundings. · Twilight landscape ­ to be used at night or in dark environments. Focus is set on distant objects. · Twilight portrait ­ to be used at night or in dark environments. · Landscape ­ set focus on distant objects. · Portrait ­ give the picture a softer appearance and emphasise on skin tones. · Beach/Snow ­ use in bright environments. · Sports ­ use for pictures of fast-moving objects. Picture size · 2 MP 1632×1224. · 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. Focus · Auto ­ use to focus automatically on the object in the centre of the viewfinder (press camera button halfway down to activate the auto focus, then press all the way to take a picture). · Macro ­ use for close-ups, for example, on small objects such as flowers and insects. · Infinite ­ use to focus on all scenery. Light The LED light can be used to enhance lighting conditions when taking pictures in a dark environments, % 5 LED light. 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 7 January 2007 Getting started Camera 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. · Black & white: This effect allows you to take black & white pictures. · Negative: This effect inverts red, green and blue separately, and to varying degrees. 8 January 2007 Getting started Camera · 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. · Solarize: Solarize adds an artificial effect to your picture. 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 ...