BENQ Digital Camera 1300 Electronic User's Manual Introduction to Benq Digital Camera 1300 1 Touring Your Camera 2 Preparing the Camera for Using 5 Installing batteries and strap 5 Installing Digital Camera Software 6 Using Your Camera 8 The digital camera mode 8 Taking pictures 8 Managing photos in camera 11 The continuous shooting mode 13 The video camera mode 14 The sound recording mode 15 The PC camera mode 16 Options 18 Troubleshooting Tips 25 Service Information 26 Copyright Copyright (c) 2002 by Benq Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without prior written permission from Benq. Brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Disclaimer Benq makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Benq assumes no responsibility for any error that may appear in this document. Benq makes no commitment to update nor to keep current the information contained in this document. Taking care of your camera · Do not use your camera over the following environmental range: temperature: O C to 40 C, relative humidity: 45% ~ 85%. · Do not use or store your camera in environments listed below: Direct sunlight High humidity and dusty places. Next to the air conditioner, electric heater or the other heat sources. In a closed car that is directly under the sun. Avoid shaky places. · If your camera becomes wet, wipe it with dry cloth as soon as possible. · Salt of seawater may cause severe camera damage. · Do not use organic solvents, such as alcohol, etc., to clean your camera. · If the lens or viewfinder is dirty, please use the lens brush or soft cloth to clean the lens. Do not touch the lens with your fingers. · To prevent electrical shock, do not attempt to disassemble or repair your camera by yourself. · Water may cause a fire or electric shock. Therefore, please store your camera in a dry place. · Do not use your camera outdoors when it is raining or snowing. · Do not use your camera in the water. · If the foreign substance or water gets in your camera, please tum the power off immediately and disconnect the batteries and the transformer. Remove the foreign substance or water, and send it to the maintenance center. Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Benq Digital Camera 1300 .....................................1 2. Touring Your Camera ........................................................................2 3. Preparing the Camera for Using ......................................................5 3.1. Installing batteries and strap ....................................................................... 5 3.2. Installing Digital Camera Software ............................................................. 6 4. Using Your Camera ............................................................................8 4.1. The digital camera mode ............................................................................. 8 4.1.1. Taking pictures ........................................................................................................... 8 4.1.3. Managing photos in camera ..................................................................................... 11 4.2. The continuous shooting mode ..................................................................13 4.3. The video camera mode ..............................................................................14 4.4. The sound recording mode .........................................................................15 4.5. The PC camera mode ..................................................................................16 4.5.1. Using Digital Camera as a PC camera .................................................................. 16 4.5.2. The function of the DC 1300 monitor frame ...................................................... 17 4.6. Options ..........................................................................................................18 i 5. Troubleshooting Tips .......................................................................25 6. Service Information ..........................................................................26 ii 1. Introduction to Benq Digital Camera 1300 1. Introduction to Benq Digital Camera 1300 Benq Digital Camera 1300 is equipped with the following features: · Small size for easy carriage and convenience of use · High resolution: 1280 x 1024 pixels in digital camera mode · Onboard 16 MB memory · Mode selectable flash light · Built-in self-timer · Fixed focus : 40 cm for macro mode, and 1.5 m to infinity from camera for normal mode · Electronic shutter · Easy recognizable LCD screen for camera and image handling · USB interface for easy and quick connection to PC · Automatic power-off system · 5 operation modes: Digital camera mode for taking photos PC camera mode for using the camera as an image capturing device for PC Video camera mode for capturing motion clips with a PC Continuous shooting mode for taking photos continuously Sound recording mode for recording sound 1 2. Touring Your Camera 2. Touring Your Camera Front View Shutter Flash light Viewfinder Lens Macro switch Self-timer activation indicator USB connection port Rear View Viewfinder Strap Eyelet Busy indicator Status display Flash/ Enter button Power/ Mode button White Balance Mode/ + button Pixel Selection/ _ button 2 2. Touring Your Camera Bottom View Battery compartment cover Tripod set The status display Flash Mode Daylight Mode Tungsten Light Mode Auto mode (White Balance) Compression Selection Mode (Fine/ Normal) Resolution Selection Mode (1280 X 1024) (1024 X 768) (640 X 480) Overcast Mode Fluorescent Mode Self-timer Mode Battery status Erase Mode Image counter PC Camera Mode Sound Recording Mode Video Camera Mode Continuous Shooting Mode Digital Camera Mode 3 3. Preparing the Camera for Using 3. Preparing the Camera for Using 3.1. Installing batteries and strap Open the battery compartment cover and insert two AAA alkaline batteries into the compartment. Note the polarity of the batteries when you install. Refer to the illustration below to install the strap. Now you are ready to use your camera! 4 3. Preparing the Camera for Using 3.2. Installing Digital Camera Software The CD that accompanies your camera contains the digital camera driver bundled with valuable image-editing software. To install digital camera software: Insert the utility CD into the CD-ROM drive. The software installation menu will appear automatically. 1. If the software installation menu does not automatically display, open Windows Explore and double-click the "Autorun.exe" icon in the CD-ROM directory. 2. If your Operating System is Windows XP, please feel comfortable to continue the installation process when the below dialog box appears on the screen. (In Windows 2000/NT, the same dialog box may also occur. Please feel comfortable to continue the installation process.) 5 3. Preparing the Camera for Using Click "Camera Driver" on the menu. Follow the on-line instructions to complete the driver intallation. Click to install digital camera driver Click to install Video Impression Click to browse User's Manual Click to install DirectX 8.1 Click to close the menu and exit You may be prompted to restart the computer at this point. Do not restart your computer until all the software has been installed. Click to install NetMeeting Click to install Photo Base Click to install Acrobat Reader 6 3. Preparing the Camera for Using Click on other items on the menu to install the bundled application software. Software DirectX 8.1 Description DirectX gives developers the tools to create amazing games for the Windows operating system and allows users the multimedia power to run the latest cutting-edge games. Install this software program to open document files in .pdf format. With VideoImpression you can edit and combine your video files. New videos can be created using existing video, animation, and image files. Quickly and easily create desktop video presentations for use at home, business or on the internet. You can use this application program to easily manage your pictures. This software program allows you to use your digital camera as a video camera for video conferencing. Acrobat Reader VideoImpression PhotoBase NetMeeting A desktop shortcut of the program is automatically created after successful installation. Restart your computer when you have finished installing all of the above software. 7 4. Using Your Camera 4. Using Your Camera Benq Digital Camera 1300 provides 5 different operation modes: Digital camera mode, Continuous shooting mode, video camera mode, Sound recording mode, PC camera mode. With these modes, you can not only use Digital Camera 1300 to take photos, but capture and show images in various ways by connecting to your PC. 4.1. The digital camera mode In digital camera mode, you can take photos, view and download them from your camera and save them as files. 4.1.1. Taking pictures Press the POWER button for 3 seconds to turn on the power of the camera. The camera beeps once and enters camera mode. The status of camera will appear on the status display. : This icon indicates that the white balance value setting is in Auto mode. You can choose to change the white balance setting. See "4.6.3. White Balance Setting" on page 21. 8 4. Using Your Camera : The counter that indicates the number of photos taken. You can choose to let the counter display in another way. : Indicates the battery status. If the battery power becomes low, the battery icon will become empty. : This icon indicates the DC 1300 is in digital camera mode. You can change the mode setting by pressing the Power/ Mode button. : This icon indicates the flash mode is set to flash off mode. You can change the flash mode setting by pressing the Flash/ Enter button. : This icon indicates the compression setting is set to "Fine". You can change the compression setting by pressing the Pix/ _ button. : This icon indicates the resolution setting is set to "1280 X 1024". You can also change the resolution setting by pressing the Pix/ _ button. Look through the viewfinder to determine the object to be taken. Make the object appear in the center of the viewfinder. Make the object appear in the center of the viewfinder. 9 4. Using Your Camera Press the shutter. The image will be taken with a beep sound and the BUSY indicator will flash, indicating that the camera is saving the image to memory. When the indicator becomes off, you are ready to take the next photo. Note: Do not press the POWER button when the BUSY indicator flashes. After the shutter is pressed, hold the camera still until the BUSY indicator becomes OFF to prevent blurred images. To save battery power, if the camera power is turned on and not used for 1 minutes, it will be turned off automatically. 4.1.2. Turning off the camera Press and hold the POWER button of the camera for 3 seconds. The camera beeps once and the power will be turned off. 10 4. Using Your Camera 4.1.3. Managing photos in camera 4.1.3.1. Deleting the last photo taken Press the "Power/ Mode" button 4 times. The icon mode. will appear on the status display. It indicates the camera is in Erase Press the "Flash/ Enter" button, the camera will beep once and the BUSY indicator will flash, then the last photo taken will be deleted. 4.1.3.2. Deleting all photos When in Erase mode, you can choose to delete the last photo or all the photos saved in the memory of camera by pressing the " WB/ +" button or "Pix/ _ " button. 11 4. Using Your Camera After choosing to delete all the photos saved in camera memory, press the "Flash/ Enter" button. The camera will beep once and the Busy indicator will flash, then all photos saved in camera memory will be deleted. 4.1.3.3. Downloading photos from camera Turn on the power of the camera by pressing the "Power/Mode" button. Refer to the illustration below to connect the camera to PC using the USB cable. When connected, the PC mode icon and the number of images in camera memory will appear on the status display. Then the system will transfer all the images from camera to PC automatically. The images will be downloaded to C drive and saved in the file folder named "My Medias". Everytime you connect the camera and PC for transferring images, the system will set up a new folder in "My Medias" for downloading and saving these images. To change the transferring settings, just right-click on the icon you can reset the transferring settings. on Windows Taskbar and select "Setting" in the submenu which a ...