Sakar 11199 User Manual

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Owner’s Manual

11199 KeyChain Digital Camera

© 2006 Sakar International, Inc. All rights reserved.

Windows and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

All other trademarks are the property of their respective.

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System Requirements 2

Contents

Product Package Contents 2

Profile 2

Overview 2

To know Digital Camera 2

Install Battery 3

Software Installation 4

Take Photos 8

Camera Functions Control 9

Video Conference 18

Download Photos 11

Capturing AVI 16

Appendix1: Specifications 18

Appendix2: Answers of frequent asked questions 19

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 Available USB Interface and CD-ROM

 Color Monitor (Suggest at least 800*600 24 bit or above)

Profile

Thank you for purchasing the11199 Keychain digital camera. It not only can

take photos but also has the built-in PC camera functions. This camera is

equipped with a 16MB SDRAM: if you want the photos in the camera to be

download to your computer, you are only required to connect the USB cable to

your computer and your camera; It is also possible to use the built-in PC camera

to hold a video conference via the internet, enabling you to have a face to face

online conversation with others.

Product Package Contents

●Digital Camera ●User’s Manual

System Requirements

 Win98SE/2000/XP

Overview

 125MB free hard disk space or above, 32MB or more RAM

●Software CD ●USB cable

B. LCD

To Know Digital Camera

A. Shutter button

F. Hanging Strap Hole

E. USB Socket

C. Lens

D. Viewfinder Button

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1. Open the battery box.

2. Load the batteries correctly: when you load the batteries, please place one

3. Close the battery box cover.

1. When you use the USB cable to connect the camera with a computer, is

Note:

H. Battery Box

G. Start/Function Key

battery according to the pole directions for batteries on the battery box;

Install Battery

2. Before you use the PC camera functions, please download all photos in

unnecessary to use the batteries because the camera use the power provided by

the computer through the USB interface.

the camera to your computer, which will avoid pictures missing

1. Don’t open the battery box at will, and the power cut will cause the photos

3. Please pay attention to that the reasonable distance between you eyes and
viewfinder is about 30cm

2. If you don’t use the camera for a long time, please take out of the batteries

3. Please don’t put the battery into fire for fear of explosion to cause

in the camera missing.

Warning

4. When the power of battery lower 1.2V,the symbols in LCD will flash

for fear of the discharging or corrosion of the batteries;

indicating the power shortage

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restart your computer after the installation

connected to the computer.

camera software” screen, select your camera model from the drop down

1. Insert the CD into your CD-Rom drive. Make sure that your camera is not

Automatically enter the energy saving status

Software Installation

IMPORTANT: Before attempting to install the software, make sure that

you do not have the camera or the USB cable attached to your computer.

This will affect the install process and will cause your installation to fail.

In order to save the energies of batteries, if the camera is not used in 30s,the

camera will auto enter the energy saving status.

Do not connect the cable to the computer until the entire installation

SECTION ONE- Software & Camera Driver Installation

process has been completed. We suggest you follow the step by step

instructions that will appear on your screen during the installation process.

2. For WIN 2000 or WIN XP operating systems - On the “Install your

For WIN 98SE operating system- On the “Install your camera software”

screen and follow these instructions:

1. Click the “DirectX” button and follow the installation instructions,

list and click the “Install” button to install PhoTags Express followed by

the installation of PhoTags WebCam Express and your camera driver.

2. Insert the CD into your CD-Rom drive. Make sure that your camera

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is not connected to the computer.

model from the drop down list and click the “Install” button to install

PhoTags Express followed by the installation of PhoTags WebCam

Express and

3. On the “Install your camera software” screen, select your camera

3. On the “PhoTags Express" screen, click the “Next” button.

4. Please review the license terms and click the “Agree” button to continue.

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5. Let the “PhoTags Express” installer create the folder where the program

will be installed to, and then click “Install”

program.

6. Click “Finish” to let the “PhoTags Express” installer finish the installation

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7. This will automatically launch the Install shield for the camera driver.

Click “Next” to continue.

computer.

8. Once the program has finished installing you will have to restart your

9. Congratulations!! You have successfully installed the “PhoTags Express”

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software, the “PhoTags WebCam Express” and the Camera driver.

1. Press function button to open the camera and the LCD will be lightened.

2. Use the viewfinder to find the things for which you desire to take photos;

3. Hold the camera steadily, and press the shutter button to take photos

4. When you hear the buzzer beeps once, which indicates you have already

5. When the camera is fully loaded with photos, the buzzer will give out

1. When taking photos, please hold camera steadily

SECTION TWO: Take photos

Please be sure that the power of the batteries is enough before you use this

camera to take photos. If you want to take photos, please:

taken a photo, and you can go on taking photos;

2. The shortage of rays will reduce the quality of picture

continuous beeps sound for alarm.

Prompt:

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released or the memory is full.

2. Press the shutter button within 5 seconds to activate the 10 seconds timer.

3. After 10 seconds, the camera will beep twice indicate that the photos has

1. Press the Function button to select shown on LCD display;
The digital camera will beep once every second.

been taken.

The function operation of the camera shall be conducted under the working state.

If the camera is in energy saving mode, please press Function button once to

start the camera and let it into the working state, and then conduct the following

operation.

Camera Functions Operation

Auto-shoot mode

1. Press the Function button to select shown on the LCD display;

Continuous Shoot Mode

AVI Capture

3. The camera will beep once for each photo taken till shutter button

2. Press shutter button within 5 seconds activate the continuous AVI capture
mode and do not release the shutter button until you want to stop shooting.

1. Press the Function button to select “C5” shown on the LCD display;

Continuous 3 Capture

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3. The camera will beep once for each photo taken.

2. Press shutter button within 5 seconds activate the continuous 3-capture

1. During the continuous shooting period, the incorrect exposure will

2. During the continuous shooting period, the operation can be executed

3. The photos under continuous shooting modes will be saved as AVI format

mode and take 3 continuous photos store in your memory.

possibly appear due to the shortage of rays.

under CIF and QCIF two modes.

Prompt:

in your camera. You can play them directry from your download software. Delete ALL photos.

2. Press the shutter button in 5s the photo counter will flash. Press shutter

1. Press the Function button to select shown on the LCD display
in camera will not be executed and the camera will return to the normal working

button again within 5 seconds will delete all photos stored in the memory

Note: If you don’t press shutter button in 5s,the operation of deleting the photos

state. Delete One photos.

1. Press the Function button to select “CL” shown on the LCD display

2. Press the shutter button in 5s the last photo will be deleted.

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on your computer.

your desktop to launch the “PhoTags Express”

mode, you can take more photos

2. Under mode, you can take the higher quality photos, Under

1. means low compression, means high compression

Image Compression Ratio shift

1. Press the Function button to select “oF” shown on the LCD display, and
press the shutter button in 5s to switch off the camera. SECTION THREE: DownLoad Photos

Switch OFF the camera:

2. Plug the other end of the USB cable into a USB port

1. Plug one end of the USB cable into the USB slot on your camera.

Use the “PhoTags Express” program to import the photos from your camera.

program.

3. Make sure that your camera is connected and turned on.

4. Double-click the “PhoTags Express” icon that is on

5. Click on the “Get Photos” button on the Main Menu.

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camera device selected in the “Active devices” list in the “Express”

mode. Click the “Next” button to proceed.

click the “Finish” button to copy the photos to your computer.

6. The “Get photos” wizard will appear with the correct name of your

7. On the next screen, choose where you want to place your photos and

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photos” mode’s main window.

8. All of the pictures you imported will then appear in the “Select

Everything You Need To Get The Most Of Your Photos And MORE

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on your PC and VCD’s for viewing on your TV using your DVD player.

WebCam Express- Use the WebCam Express software to snap photos, record

projects online at anytime and these will be automatically activated in PhoTags

uploading online.

Create Calendars, two-sided Greeting Cards and Postcards on standard photo

duplicating any photos. Burn CDs of any folders for backup and storage.

Enhance your photos; Auto Enhance, Crop and Correct Red Eye.

Add Active Captions- add Text Captions, Frames, Shapes, Keywords… and

more that can be viewed or hidden any time.

Locate and Organize your photos and collections- Search by Captions,

Category, Keyword or Date - directly from the operating system of your

Download photos instantly from your digital camera, media cards, CDs and

storage devices to your computer.

Manage your photos by creating countless unique photo collections without

computer.

paper... You can purchase Albums and Video CD, two additional workshop

Share your photos via E-mail, Local Printing and Create HTML web pages for

and create videos.

Express. Create Photo Albums and Slide Shows on CDs that can be viewed

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want and you will be referred to an online website where you can

purchase them.

automatically activated in the software.

1. To purchase the “Workshop Project” simply click the one you

2. Once you purchase the “Workshop projects” they will be

Now that you have your camera installed you can use it to capture short movies

called AVI files. The length of time you can record an AVI while the camera is

connected to your computer will vary, depending on how much hard drive space

you will use to save the file. Please take note that these AVI files take up a lot of

hard drive space. This is done through the PhoTags WebCam Express program.

How to purchase additional “Workshop” projects

In addition to the free Calendars, two-sided Greeting Cards and Postcards

Workshop projects, you have the ability to purchase two additional

Workshop projects: "Albums" and "Video CD" online, at anytime.

SECTION FOUR-Capturing AVI

This next section will walk you though capturing an AVI file.

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launch the “PhoTags WebCam Express” program. Adjust your

WebCam to the desired position. The screen will display what the

WebCam “sees”.

1. Double-click the “WebCam Express” icon that is on your desktop to

2. To add audio to your video, plug a microphone into your computer.

3. Click the “Capture” button to start recording the video. The

recording elapse time will appear under the video.

recording click the “Capture” button again.

can view them in the “Playback” window.

4. Click the “Pause” button to hold the recording. To continue

6. The videos will be automatically saved into a default directory. You

5. To finish recording click the “Stop” button.

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WebCam or from your existing AVI movies, go to the “Take Snapshots”

section in the Quick Start help.

section in the Quick Start help.

Note:

1. To take snapshots: to learn how to capture JPEG snapshots from your

Video Conference

The camera can be used as a PC camera to conduct image transmission or hold

online video conferences, you are only required to:

2. To learn how to change the user settings, go to the “Set User Preferences”

1Use the USB cable to connect the camera and the USB interface of PC

3Input others’ IP address in the address bar and dial

2Run the video conferences software Microsoft Netmeeting on your computer.

4Select [Tool]\[Video]\[Accept] and [Transfer]options .After others accepted

your calling, you can hold Video conference

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Appendix 1:Specifications

Product Type: Digital camera

Electronic Coupling Element: CMOS Sensor 100K Pixels

Image Resolution: 352*288Pixels(CIF) 176*144Pixels(QCIF)

Memory Devices: Built-in 1*16MB(SDRAM)

Memory Capacity: 20(CIF)(Hi) 80(QCIF)(Lo)

Viewfinder: Built-in

Auto shoot: 10s

Continuous Shoot: 10 pieces per second

Shutter Speed: 1/6-1/15000 seconds

Shoot Mode: Single/Continuous Photograph/Automatic shoot/PC camera

Automatic Energy Saving: automatically enter the energy saving mode in 30s

Image Process: Automatic Exposure/Automatic White Balance

Working voltage: AAA 1.5V*1/USB 5V

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[Properties]

Operation System: Win98SE/2000/XP

Transmission Interface: USB Interface

Working Temperature:0-40℃

Appendix 2:Answers of frequent asked questions

1Q: I finished installing the programme according to the standard ways but

no photos in cameras after download.

A: Please make sure that you’re taken photos by checking the number on the

camera LCD. Please also check if the USB cable is loose. If it still can’t work

please follow below steps.

If your OS is WIN XP or WIN 2000

(1) Find [My Computer] on the Desktop, Press right key of mouse and select

(2) Select [Hardware], click [Device Manager]

(3) Find [Imaging devices], Select your imaging device

[Properties]

device

(4) Press right key of mouse and select [Scan for hardware changes]

If your OS is WIN 98SE

(1) Find [My Computer] on the Desktop, Press right key of mouse and select

(2) Select [Device Manager], Find [Imaging devices], Select your imaging

(3) Press right key of mouse and select [Refresh]

2Q: The camera can’t work after connection, there’s a yellow “!” Before

Device Manager/Imaging devices/Dual-Mode DSC (2770).

A: It’s because of the collision of the computer peripheral please follow

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WIN ME, Press right key of mouse and select [Remove])

below steps:

(1) Select Dual-Mode DSC (2770) in [Device Manager]

(2) Press right key of mouse and select [Uninstall] (If OS is WIN98SE or

(3) Remove USB

(4) Restart Computer

(5) Reinsert USB

3Q: After finish install software and connect the camera to the computer,

There’s “unknown USB device” in device manager.

A: Connect the camera to your computer and run dear registry, then remove

cameras and reinstall driver.

4Q: May I connect the camera to the compute when I install the driver?

A: No, don’t connect the camera with your computer when you install driver.

5Q: My camera has no response when I press Mode key or shutter.

A: Please get out the battery and reload it.

6Q: Photos downloaded are with color spots stripes layers and segments.

A: Please open dr., and redownload, dr., will save this problem. Please send

A: Camera death caused by improper or bad batteries, then please cut off all the

this file back to your suppliers or customer service team. It is not noticed prior to design change

power, including USB and batteries, start again with new batteries after 10s.

7Q: Can’t download photos or has problem with photo download.