AMKOV CDC3, Manual

Page 1: ...Digital Camera Please read this manual carefully before using this unit and keep it for future reference ...

Page 2: ...Install battery 7 Charging your lithium battery 7 Install a SD memory card 7 Starting Your Digital Camera 8 Camera Mode 9 Taking Photos 9 Video Mode 17 Playback Mode 18 Install PhoTags Express Software 21 Everything you need to get the most from your photos 23 Download photos to your PC 24 PhoTags Express software owner manual 28 Transferring photos and videos to your PC manually 28 Transferring p...

Page 3: ...ra resolutions 4896x3672 18M 4608x3456 16M 4416x3312 14M 4000x3000 12M 3648x2736 10M 3264x2448 8M 3648x2048 7M HD 2592x1944 5M 2048x1536 3M 1920x1080 2M HD 640x480 VGA 2 7 inch TFT LCD 4X digital zoom Anti shake function Face detection Smile Capture Continue Shot SD memory card slot accepts SD compatible memory card up to 32GB Built in Flash PhoTags Express software for managing and enhancing your...

Page 4: ...videos to your PC you will need the following minimum configuration Windows Vista 800MHz processor and 512 MB of system memory 20GB hard driver with at least 15GB of available space Support for Super VGA graphics Available USB Interface CD ROM Drive Computer System Requirements for Macintosh Power Macintosh G3 500 MHz or higher Mac OS X version 10 5 X or later 128 MB or more available system RAM 2...

Page 5: ...4 Quick Look at Your Digital Camera ...

Page 6: ...5 Main Icons on the LCD ...

Page 7: ...ality Flash Force Flash Auto No Flash Red eye reduction Modes Camera Playback Video Self timer On 10 seconds Self timer On 5seconds Self timer On 2 seconds Self timer off Digital Zoom Protect Protect Anti Shake Anti Shake on Anti Shake off Scenes Auto Night Portrait Night Scenery Portrait Scenery Sport Party Beach High Sensitivity ...

Page 8: ... use your camera for a long time Charging your lithium battery To charge your battery you only need to connect your camera to PC with supplied USB cable correctly The LED light will light up and it will be off after full charge Install a SD memory card This camera supports any compatible SD memory card up to 32GB Limited internal memory is only for you to take test photo these photo will be lost w...

Page 9: ...rotected data 3 Don t remove the SD card during formatting as this may damage the card and render it unusable Starting Your Digital Camera Your digital camera is included 3 modes Camera mode Video mode and Playback mode Camera mode is for you to take still photos You can shoot video file in Video mode And you can preview photos videos delete rotate protect crop and printing your photos in playback...

Page 10: ...ull Insert a SD memory Card to Transfer and Take More Photos when you attempt to press Shutter button to take photo now you need to download these photos to PC or delete them for taking more photos alternatively you can insert a SD memory card for expanding the memory Digital Zoom function You can magnify your subject up to 4 times using the digital zoom Press Multi Function button A to zoom in th...

Page 11: ... You can choose your best scenery according to your light and environment conditions Press Power button to turn on your camera the icon will appear on the top left of your LCD screen 1 Press Menu button 2 Press Right Left button to select the icon 3 Press Up Down button to select Auto Night Portrait Night Scenery Portrait Scenery Sport Party Beach High Sensitivity 4 Press Menu button or Multi Func...

Page 12: ...some blurry photos from trembling when taking photo Because of this function you are not required to use a tripod for steady shooting photos To set as below 1 Press Menu button 2 Press Right Left button to select the icon 3 Press Up Down button to select On Off 4 Press Menu button or Multi Function button A to confirm The icon will appear on the LCD screen if you select On Note You can press Multi...

Page 13: ...ue shot on if you try to change the image size Continue Shot Mode Off information will remind you that you can only use continue shot function when the image size is VGA Self Timer You can include yourself in a photo by using this feature to delay the time between your pressing Shutter button and when the photo is actually taken 1 Press Menu button 2 Press Right Left button to select icon the func...

Page 14: ...een Note You can press Multi Function button B to exit in each menu ISO This is a special function that allow you to compensate the light conditions when the light source is not good and also you are not admit to use flash light or tripod And you will know the flash light or a tripod is best to compensate the light conditions for your primal choice and then ISO When you want to use ISO sensitizati...

Page 15: ...lect Sharpness option in Setup menu 2 Press Menu button or Multi Function button A to enter the Sharpness submenu 3 Press Up Down button to select Normal Sharp Soft 4 Press Menu button to confirm and return to the Camera mode Note You can press Multi Function button B to exit in each menu Quality The quality of your photos also affects the number of shots you can take The Super setting means you c...

Page 16: ...he photo you take and LCD screen Off won t show date on photos and LCD screen Set Date set the system date 4 Press Menu button to confirm Note You can press Multi Function button B to exit in each menu Set date 1 Press Menu button or Multi Function button A to enter the Set date submenu 2 Press Right Left button select value and press Up Down button to set the Date time and format 3 Press Menu but...

Page 17: ...n button to select Frequency option in Setup menu 2 Press Menu button or Multi Function button A to enter the Frequency submenu 3 Press Up Down button to select 50Hz 60Hz 4 Press Menu button to confirm and return to the Camera mode Note You can press Multi Function button B to exit in each menu Beep sound Sets the button sound on off 1 Press Up Down button to select beep sound option in Setup menu...

Page 18: ...u button or Multi Function button A to confirm 5 Press Up Down button to select Yes set to default No exit the menu 6 Press Menu button to confirm Cancel This is for you to exit the menu manually select it in setup menu and press Menu button to exit Video Mode Note The camera has limited internal memory and does not allow recording videos without a SD card inserted A SD card up to 32GB needs to be...

Page 19: ...Exist will be displayed on the LCD screen if there are no photos videos in the camera Press Multi Function button B to return to the camera mode 2 Please go to the camera mode for setting video parameters for shooting videos such as Video size White balance and so on Thumbnail display When the camera is in the Playback Mode press Down button will take you to the thumbnail display Select a JPG file...

Page 20: ...tos videos from accidental deletion 1 Press Menu button 2 Press Right Left button to select the icon 3 Press Up Down button to select Lock Unlock 4 Press Menu button or Multi Function button A to confirm A lock icon will be shown on the LCD if you select Lock At step 3 select Unlock and press Menu button or Multi Function button A to unlock the current file Note You can press Multi Function button...

Page 21: ...rop your photos to show only a specific portion of an image or to highlight certain focal points The Crop feature lets you zoom in on an image and then save that part of the image as a new photo 1 Press Menu button 2 Press Right Left button to select the icon 3 Press Up Down button to select Crop Cancel 4 Press Menu button or Multi Function button A 5 Press Up Down Left Right button to select an a...

Page 22: ... to play Note For how to protect delete videos please refer to Operation of still photos Install PhoTags Express Software NOTE Make sure that your camera is not connected to the computer Insert software CD to your computer After a few seconds there will be shown an installing main window on the screen You can install AP Install DirectX Browse CD and Exit in this installing main window Install PhoT...

Page 23: ...ere will be showing some windows that help you to finish the installing You are only required to follow the description and click the buttons that it s defaulted by the software Register online Click Register online button to have a registration Or you can directly click Continue for registration next time ...

Page 24: ... photos 1 Select photos Select the photos that you download from your camera And edit it in the software 2 Edit photos Click the Enhance photos Add captions from the main window to edit your ideal photos 3 Share photos Share your photos via E mail Printing and Create HTML web to uploading online 4 Workshop ...

Page 25: ...um and slide shows on CD that can be viewed on your PC and VCD for viewing on your TV using your DVD player Download photos to your PC Turn on your camera connect your camera to the computer correctly with USB cable a MSDC will show on the LCD screen The screen of PC will be shown a window Removable Disk H as below NOTE Now you can copy the photos to your computer with two method as below ...

Page 26: ...STORAGE DEVICE 4 Click on the REMOVABLE STORAGE DEVICE to view the images The images are stored in the subfolder called DCIM 5 You can now copy and paste the images to any directory you choose 3 Download photos using PhoTtags Express Double click the PhoTags Express icon on the desktop to launch the application Click the Get Photos button on the main window The Get Photos wizard mode will appear o...

Page 27: ...he memory card will each appear in the Active Devices list Select Custom copy click Next to continue Note At this moment you can select Express option to copy all photos to your computer Select your photos click Next to continue Add active captions to the picture With this feature you can add a date keywords and categories Click Next to continue ...

Page 28: ...os to the location you selected Note All of the picture you imported will appear in the Select Photos main window And now you can edit your photos per your idea and then download it to your computer For how to edit the photos you can refer to the Quick Start guide in the PhoTags Express ...

Page 29: ...ion If PhoTags Express can not upgrade the DirectX automatically you can manually install the DirectX in the CD before using the Camera otherwise if the edition of DirectX in the windows operation is less than 8 1 then the AVI file can not be played Transferring photos and videos to your PC manually Turn on your camera Change your camera mode to Playback and connect your camera to the computer cor...

Page 30: ... step instructions will appear Follow the description and click the buttons that are defaulted by the system to finish transferring 2 Alternatively you can 1 Click on the MY COMPUTER Icon on the desktop 2 Your memory card will appear as a REMOVABLE STORAGE DEVICE 3 Click on the REMOVABLE STORAGE DEVICE to view the images The images are stored in the subfolder called DCIM 4 You can now copy and pas...

Page 31: ...taken Appendix A Technical Specifications Image Sensor CMOS Sensor Image Resolution 4896x3672 18M 4608x3456 16M 4416x3312 14M 4000x3000 12M 3648x2736 10M 3264x2448 8M 3648x2048 7M HD 2592x1944 5M 2048x1536 3M 1920x1080 2M HD 640x480 VGA Video Resolution 1280x720 HD 640x480 VGA 320x240 QVGA LCD Display 2 7 TFT LCD External Memory SD card Up to 32GB Digital Zoom 4X Digital Zoom Exposure EV 3 EV 3 Wh...

Page 32: ... try downloading them again It is also recommended that you have a SD card inserted in the camera Self timer Off 2s 5s 10s File Format JPEG AVI Anti shake YES Flash Auto Force Off Red eye reduction PictBridge YES Face Detection YES Smile Capture YES Continue Shot YES VGA 6PCS Microphone YES Optical Viewfinder N A TV out N A Interface USB 2 0 System Requirements Windows XP VISTA 7 MAC Battery Li io...

Page 33: ...serted If need be refresh the device options list until you see the removable device appearing If the computer does not recognize your device it may mean that your computer does not meet the minimum system requirements Please see the System Requirements section of this manual If your computer does not matches these requirements then it is possible that you will not be able to transfer the photos a...