Concord Camera 5340z manual

User ’ s Guide User ’ s Guide 5340z 5.0 MEGAPIXELS www .concord-camera.com[...]

1 ENGLISH T able of contents GETTING ST ARTED ............................................................................................................4 P ACKAGE CONTENTS .............................................................................................................. ............. 4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .............................[...]

2 Shooting Mode ................................................................................................................. ............... 15 Playback Mode ............................................................................................................................... .1 5 INFORMA TION DISPLA YED ON THE LCD MONITOR ...........[...]

3 SETTING USB MODE ............................................................................................................................ 28 FILE NAMES & PRINTING ................................................................................................29 ABOUT FILE AND FOLDER NUMBERS ................................................[...]

4 GETTING ST ARTED P ACKAGE CONTENTS Please contact your dealer immediately if any of the items below are missing or damaged. Camera Soft Case Strap Software Installation CD-ROM (include multi-lingual User ’ s Guide) GETTING ST ARTED USB Cable V ideo out Cable 2 AA Batteries Quick Start Guide[...]

5 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Windows: • PC with processor better than MMX Pentium 300 MHz • Windows XP/2000/ME/98SE • Minimum 128 MB RAM • USB port • CD-ROM drive • 1024 x 768 monitor , 24-bit color (true color) Specifications are subject to change without prior notice. SAFETY INFORMA TION • Before using the camera, please ensure that you re[...]

6 FCC COMPLIANCE AND ADVISOR Y This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1. this device may not cause harmful interference, and 2. this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause unsatisfactory operation. This equipment has been tested and found[...]

7 CAMERA COMPONENTS Front Rear To p GETTING ST ARTED Microphone AF LED Flash Ready LED[...]

8 Bottom Side USING THE INCLUDED ACCESSORIES Attaching the Wrist Strap Attach the wrist strap as illustrated. Don’t swing the camera when carrying it by the wrist strap. Using the Soft Case Store the camera in the soft case when it is not in use. GETTING ST ARTED Battery/Memory Card door[...]

9 OPERA TING THE MUL TI-CONTROLLER The multi-controller is used to set shooting mode, to move cursor when the camera Menu is shown, and to confirm the selection. Up Button • T o enter Quick View mode. • T o move the cursor up when MENU screen is shown. Right Button • T o set Flash mode in Shooting Mode. • T o move the cursor to right when M[...]

10 PREP ARING THE CAMERA INST ALLING THE BA TTERIES Insert two (2) AA-size batteries (Alkaline or Ni-MH rechargeable). 1. Be sure that the camera power is of f. 2. Slide the Battery/Memory Card door in the direction of the arrow , and lift it open. 3. Insert two AA batteries with the positive (+) and negative (-) poles matching the directions indic[...]

11 PREP ARING THE CAMERA INST ALLING AN SD CARD The digital camera is equipped with a 16 MB internal memory . If no SD card is inserted in the camera, all pictures/video clips recorded by the camera will be stored in the internal memory . When SD card is inserted in the camera, all pictures and video clips recorded by the camera will be stored on t[...]

12 PREP ARING THE CAMERA TURNING THE POWER ON / OFF Press the Power button and hold it until the LCD indicator begins flashing green. It takes about 1 second to power on the camera. To turn off the camera Press the Power button to turn off the camera. The camera might be powered off automatically after being idle for some time. The Auto-Off setting[...]

13 PREP ARING THE CAMERA DA TE ST AMP The camera provides a Date Stamp that can be turned on or off freely . If you want to have Date and T ime shown on the pictures, set the Date Stamp to ON mode. 1. Set the camera mode switch to Shooting Mode ( ) 2. Press the button. 3. Press the or to select Date Stamp then press the SET or button to enter its s[...]

14 PREP ARING THE CAMERA This chart shows the options for each menu settings. Menu Items Selectable with the MENU Button Menu Item A vailable Setting Shooting Mode REC Menu Scene Auto/Sport/Landscape/Portrait/Night Resolution 2592x1944, 2304 x1728, 1600x1200, 640x480 Quality Fine/ Normal/ Economy Exposure +2/+1.7/+1.3/+1.0/+0.7/+0.3/0.0/-0.3/-0.7/-[...]

15 BASIC FUNCTIONS BASIC FUNCTIONS SETTING THE LCD DISPLA Y MODE Press the DISP button to turn the LCD on or off. The LCD display changes as indicated below when DISP button is pressed repeatedly: Shooting Mode On (with Information) ‡‡ On (No Information) ‡‡ No LCD monitor display Playback Mode Display (Information) ‡‡ Simple Display (N[...]

16 INFORMA TION DISPLA YED ON THE LCD MONITOR The LCD can display below information. Shooting Mode Playback Mode BASIC FUNCTIONS[...]

17 BASIC FUNCTIONS USING THE ZOOM FEA TURE The camera has a 3x optical zoom lens with an effective zoom range 5.9 mm to 17.17 mm (equivalent to 35 mm to 103 mm in 35 mm film format) as well as 4x digital zoom capability . T elephoto / Wide Angle 1. Press T to zoom in for a telephoto shot. 2. Press W to zoom out for a wide angle shot. USING THE DIGI[...]

18 TA KING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS T AKING PICTURES BASIC STILL IMAGE SHOOTING 1. Set the camera mode switch to . 2. Frame the subject with the LCD or viewfinder . 3. Press the T or W button to zoom in or zoom out the subject. 4. Press the Shutter button halfway down to activate the auto-focus until AF LED stops blinking and the white AF Frame turned [...]

19 T AKING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS button to select YES , and then press SET to confirm. 3. Press the button again to return to shooting mode. SETTING THE IMAGE QUALITY AND RESOLUTION Y ou can change the image quality and resolution settings to suit the purpose of the image you are about to shoot. 1. Press the button. 2. Press the or button to select [...]

20 TA KING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS USING THE FLASH Use the flash according to the guidelines below Auto The camera judges if a flash is required. If the environment is too dark, the flash will fire. Red-eye reduction, Auto The flash fires automatically as required by the lighting level, and the flash pre-strobes before shooting to reduce red-eye pheno[...]

21 T AKING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS 4. Press the or to select the settings you wish to set then press the SET button. 5. Press the button to close the menu window . Light Metering menu will not be shown if “Sport”, “Landscape”, “Portrait” or “ Night” scene is selected. MACRO MODE Use the macro mode to shoot close-up of subjects in the r[...]

22 T AKING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS T AKING CONTINUOUS PICTURES 1. Press the button until the Continuous Shooting icon ( ) is shown on the LCD. 2. Shoot the image. The camera will capture 3 continuous pictures in 1600x1200 or 640x480 resolution. If the resolution is set at 2592 x 1944 or 2304x1728, when continuous shooting is selected, the resolution w[...]

23 T AKING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS 4. Shoot the image. ADJUSTING COLOR TONES ---SETTING THE WHITE BALANCE When the white balance mode is set to match the light source, the camera reproduces colors more accurately . Auto Settings are automatically set by the camera Day light For recording outdoors on a bright day Shade For recording under overcast, sha[...]

24 TA KING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS USING THE SCENE MODE The camera provides 4 preset scenes for you to get the best capture of specific scenes. 1. Press the button. 2. Press the or to select Scene then press the SET or button. 3. Press the or to select the setting you wish to set then press the SET button. Change of Scene setting will disable Macro mo[...]

25 T AKING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS T AKING VIDEO CLIPS The digital camera can shoot video clips with audio. 1. Set the camera mode switch to V ideo Mode ( ). • The LCD monitor displays the maximum recording time. 2. Press the shutter button all the way down to start record movie clip. 3. Press the shutter button again to stop recording. Otherwise th[...]

26 REPLA YING PHOTO & VIDEO CLIPS REPLA YING PHOTO & VIDEO CLIPS REPLA YING PICTURES/VIDEO CLIPS Y ou can view the recorded images and video clips on the LCD monitor . 1. Set the camera mode switch to . • The last recorded image or video clip appears on the LCD monitor . 2. Press the button to move to the previous file and press the butto[...]

27 REPLA YING PHOTO & VIDEO CLIPS ERASING FILES FROM MEMOR Y Erase files that you don’t want to keep to make more memory space available. Y ou can erase individual files or all files when the camera is in playback mode. Erasing files Individually 1. In the Review mode, press the or to find out the file to be deleted. 2. Press . 3. Press or to[...]

28 REPLA YING PHOTO & VIDEO CLIPS PLA YING A SLIDE SHOW (AUTO PLA Y) In slide show mode, all images can be displayed one-by-one in an automated slide show . 1. Set the camera to the Review mode. 2. Press button. 3. Press the to select SLIDE SHOW then press the SET or button. 4. Press the or to select OFF , 5 sec or 10 sec and then press SET . T[...]

29 FILE NAMES & PRINTING FILE NAMES & PRINTING ABOUT FILE AND FOLDER NUMBERS Images or video clips are assigned file numbers from 0001 to 9999, and folders are assigned folder numbers from 100 to 999 Folder File Capacity Each folder usually contains up to 9999 images. If a photo is taken when the folder with highest folder number contains a[...]

30 FILE NAMES & PRINTING 1. Press the button. 2. Press the to select the Setup. 3. Press the or to select File NO . Reset then press the SET or button. 4. Press the or to select On or Off and then press the SET button. 1. Setting the File No. Reset to OFF is useful for avoiding file name duplication when images are downloaded to a computer . 2.[...]

31 FILE NAMES & PRINTING PRINTING PICTURES DIRECTL Y There are two ways to print the stored pictures without the help of computer: Printing Pictures by Using SD Card 1. T ransfer the stored pictures from internal memory to SD card. (If necessary) (p. 28) 2. Set the printing order (p. 30). 3. Insert the SD card into the SD card slot of the direc[...]

32 FILE NAMES & PRINTING 7. Press the or to select Print then press the button. 8. Press the or to select Custom then press the button. 9. Press the or to select Start then press the SET button. The images will be printed. Before proceeding to print, you can set paper size by pressing the or to select Custom, then press to enter custom submenu,[...]

33 MAKING CONNECTIONS MAKING CONNECTIONS DOWNLOADING FILES TO A COMPUTER Download files taken with the camera to a computer in one of the following ways: 1. Directly from the SD card reader . 2. Connect the camera to a computer with the USB cable. Note for Win 98 SE users: Y ou must install the camera driver bundled on the Software Installation CD-[...]

34 MAKING CONNECTIONS Downloading Pictures with a USB Cable Note for Win 98 SE users: Y ou must install the camera driver bundled on the Digital Camera software installation CD-ROM before connecting the camera to the computer . Connect the supplied USB interface cable to the computer ’ s USB port and the camera’s DIGIT AL terminal. 1. Y ou do n[...]

35 MAKING CONNECTIONS Downloading files 1. Double-click on My Computer . 2. For WINDOWS 98 SE/2000/ME: Double-click “Removable Disk”. For WINDOWS XP: Double-click “Internal”. 3. Double-click “DCIM”. 4. Double-click the folder that contains the desired files. • The file names of the pictures (JPG) and video clips (MPEG4) stored in the [...]

36 INST ALLING SOFTW ARE INST ALLING SOFTW ARE The functions of the software that were bundled with the supplied CD-ROM are listed as below: Camera Driver Enable Win 98 SE users to download files from the camera to a computer . Ulead Photo Explorer 8.0 SE Enable Windows 98 SE/2000/ME/XP users to view the pictures and or video clips recorded with th[...]

37 INST ALLING SOFTW ARE Computer and find the CD-ROM drive, then double-it. 2. Click Drivers on the model selection screen. Choose a language from the menu and click OK . The “InstallShield Wizard” screen appears. Note: The computer may remind you to disconnect the camera with the computer and to prepare the system CD, please click OK to conti[...]

38 INST ALLING SOFTW ARE 2. Click Ulead Photo Explorer 8 SE Basic on the model selection screen. (Fig. 1.1) Choose a language from the menu and click Next. (Fig. 1.2) Fig. 1.3 Fig. 1.4 3. When the welcome window appears, click Next to continue with the installation. (Fig. 1.3) 4. When the Software License Agreement window appears, click Ye s to acc[...]

39 INST ALLING SOFTW ARE 10. When the Setup Options window appears, Click Next to continue. (Fig. 2.0) Fig. 1.9 Fig. 2.0 1 1. Now the installation starts. Please wait while the installing is in process. (Fig. 2.1) 12. When the File association window appears, select the option you want and then click Next to continue. (Fig. 2.2) Fig. 2.1 Fig. 2.2 1[...]

40 INST ALLING SOFTW ARE USING THE ULEAD PHOTO EXPLORER 8 SE BASIC - FOR WINDOWS 98SE/2000/ ME/XP Photo Explorer is a handy Web-enabled program for quickly viewing any multimedia file (such as image, animated GIF , video, or sound) in your computer . Operating very much like the Windows Explorer , Photo Explorer displays all your folders and files [...]

41 INST ALLING SOFTW ARE INST ALLING OTHER UTINITIES The utilities include QuickT ime, Indeo, Windows media format, Microsoft DirectX and Acrobat reader . The former three software can be used to play video clips in MOV format, in ASF format, in Indeo format or in Windows media video format. Acrobat Reader is used to read the PDF format documents. [...]

42 APPENDIX APPENDIX TROUBLESHOOTING Problem Cause Solution Power does not turn on Battery is inserted in the wrong direction Reload battery in the correct direction. Batteries are dead Replace or recharge batteries The battery compartment door is open Make sure the battery compartment door is securely closed. The camera does not take pictures The [...]

43 APPENDIX SPECIFICA TIONS Sensor 5.36 Mega Pixels CCD Size : 1/2.5 inch Lens Focal length: f 5.9 ~ f 17.17 mm, 3× zoom lens V iew Finder Optical with real image Color LCD Display 2” TFT LCD Panel Focus Range Normal Mode: 50 cm (1.64 ft.) ~ infinity , Macro Wide Mode: 10 cm ~ 50 (cm) (0.33 ft - 1.64 ft.) Macro T ele Mode: 30 cm ~ 50 cm (0.98 ft[...]

44 APPENDIX GETTING HELP T roubleshooting Section in this User’s Guide Please refer to the T roubleshooting section (p.42) first, as it contains some of the most common problems that users encounter . W ebsite Customer Support/F AQ For problems that are not listed in the T roubleshooting section, please visit our customer support website at www .[...]

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