Acer Digital Camera 300 User Manual
Introduction to Acer Digital Camera 300 1
Touring Your Camera 2
Preparing the Camera for Using 4
Acer Digital Camera 300
Electronic User’s Manual
Installing batteries and neck strap 4
Installing digital camera software 5
Using Your Camera 6
The digital camera mode 6
The PC camera mode 18
The video camera mode 25
Using the cradle 30
Installing the cradle 30
Troubleshooting Tips 33
Service Information 35
Technical support 35
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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 trans-
former. Remove the foreign substance or water, and send it to the maintenance center.
• Transfer the data to the computer as soon as possible to avoid losing your image data.
Introduction to Acer Digital Camera 300
Introduction to Acer Digital Camera 300
Acer Digital Camera 300 is equipped with the following features:
• Small size for easy carriage and convenience of use
• High resolution: 640 x 480 pixels in digital camera mode; selectable 640 x 480, 352 x
288, 320 x 240 or 176 x 144 pixels in PC camera mode
• 24-bit true color representation for high image fidelity
• Onboard 8MB memory to store up to 95 ~128 images in digital camera mode
• Mode selectable flash light
• Built-in self-timer
• Fixed focus : 8 inch(0.2m) for macro mode, and 2ft.(0.6m) 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
• 3 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
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Touring Your Camera
Front
Shutter
Flash light
Self-timer activation
indicator
Rear
MACRO indicator
BUSY indicator
Touring Your Camera
Viewfinder
Lens
Macro switch
USB connector
Status display
POWER button
SELECT button
MODE button
Neck strap holder
Battery compartment
cover
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Touring Your Camera
The status display
elete all images in memory
Delete the last image
Enter self-timer
mode
Image counter
Enter auto flash mode
Turn off flash
Battery status
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Preparing the Camera for Using
Installing batteries and neck 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 neck strap.
Preparing the Camera for Using
Now you are ready to use your camera!
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Installing digital camera software
Insert the digital camera software CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. The following
software installation menu will appear on computer screen automatically.
Click this item to install digital camera software
Click this item to install Presto! Mr.Photo Gold
Click this item to install Presto! Image Folio
Click this item to install Presto! VideoWorks
Click this item to open Electronic user guide
Click this item to install NetMeeting
Click this item to install Acrobat Reader
Note: If the software installation menu did not appear, open Windows Explore and
double-click the “Autorun.exe” icon in the CD-ROM directory.
Click Digital Camera 300 Driver first to install digital camera software. Follow the
on-screen instructions to proceed.
When you are done installing the digital camera software, you have the choice to go
back to the software installation menu and click other items to install the bundled
software programs.
Preparing the Camera for Using
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Using Your Camera
Acer Digital Camera 300 provides 3 different operation modes: Digital camera mode,
PC camera mode, and video camera mode. With these modes, you can not only use
Digital Camera 300 to take photos, but capture and show images in various ways.
The digital camera mode
In digital camera mode, you can take photos, view and download them from your camera and save them as files.
Taking pictures
Turn on the power of the camera by pressing the POWER button. The camera beeps
once and enters camera mode. The status of camera will appear on the status display.
: This icon indicates that the flash light is in Auto mode. You can choose to turn it
off. See “Turning on/off the flash light” on page 13.
Using Your Camera
: The counter that indicates the number of photos taken. You can choose to let
the counter display in another way. See “View picture counter” on page 16.
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Using Your Camera
: Indicates the battery status. If the battery power becomes low, the battery icon
will become empty.
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.
Press the shutter. The image will be taken 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. The memory of
camera allows you to take up to 95 ~ 128 photos.
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 2 minutes, it will be turned off automatically.
Turning off the camera
Press and hold the POWER button of the camera. The camera beeps once and the
power will be turned off.
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Managing photos in camera
Deleting the last photo taken
Press the MODE button 4 times. The icon flashes on the status display.
Press and hold the shutter for 1 second. The last photo taken will be deleted.
Deleting all photos
Press the MODE button 5 times. The icon flashes on the status display.
Using Your Camera
Press and hold the shutter for 1 second. All photos in camera memory will be deleted.
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Using Your Camera
Downloading photos from camera
Turn on the power of the camera by pressing the POWER button.
Refer to the illustration below to connect the camera to PC using the USB cable. When
connected, the number of images in camera memory will appear on the status display.
Power on your computer.
grams > Acer DC 300 > DC300 Digital Camera. Or, right-click on the icon on
Windows Taskbar and select “Digital Camera” in the submenu that appears.
Click the Start button on Windows Taskbar, and choose Pro-
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Using Your Camera
The image preview window will appear on your computer screen and start creating
thumbnails of the photos in the camera.
If there are more than 20 photos in the camera, the image thumbnails will appear on
different pages. Click on the tab on top of each page to switch among the pages.
Choose the thumbnail of the photo you want to download. You can:
• Click on each thumbnail to select a photo separately. Click on the thumbnail again
and the photo is not selected.
• Click on the Select All button to select all photos on a page.
• Click on the Unselect button to cancel selecting photos.
Click Save. A Save as dialogue box will appear. Specify the file name and location and
click Save. If you have selected multiple photos, you will be prompted to enter a prefix
for the file name of the photos. The image files will be named in the format of (pre-
fix)001, (prefix)002.... For example, if you entered “Mypic” as the prefix, the images in
camera will be saved using the names “Mypic001”, “Mypic002”...
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