Optional Items, CD-ROM or Diskette Contents

Optional Items:

Vivitar Corporation has been developing and marketing Digital Still Cameras since 1996. In that time we have learned a great deal from our customers about their needs and concerns with consumer digital imaging. The two most common concerns, or issues are 1) PC connectivity, and 2) Battery life.

The following accessories are strongly suggested to address those issues, and further enhance your ownership experience. We suggest the use of the following optional accessories –

1.Rechargeable batteries and chargers. Digital cameras are notorious for battery consumption. It is highly recommended that digital camera users use rechargeable NiMH (Nickel-Metal Hydride) AA batteries. Ideally, you would have two sets of these batteries and one charger. One set of batteries can be on-charge, while the second set would be in the camera. As the batteries deplete you would rotate the battery sets between charger and camera.

2.Compact Flash cards for additional image storage. These are available in various sizes from 2 MB to 32MB. Please note that the ViviCam 2750 has an upper memory limit of 32 MB. Do not attempt to use CF cards greater than 32 MB in capacity.

3.A Compact Flash card reader that allows you to download your images directly from a CF card to your PC via parallel port, or USB port. This method is much faster and easier than using a serial-data cable connection. This allows you to by-pass the serial data download process altogether. The CF reader is much faster and circumvents serial communications conflicts.

4.A PCMCIA CF adapter that allows mobile computers (laptops and notebooks) to read CF memory cards directly into a PCMCIA slot on your notebook computer. This allows notebook computer users to by-pass the serial data download process altogether. The CF adapter is much faster and circumvents serial communications conflicts.

5.AC Adapter. The optional 6.0 VDC power adaptor that allows you to use household AC power to operate your camera. This is generally useful while downloading your images.

These items are available through your dealer, most computer stores, on-line sources, or from the telephone ordering and fulfillment centers listed on the promotional coupons.

CD-ROM or Diskette Contents

There are two pieces of software required to connect your digital camera to your PC. The most fundamental component of software is called a “driver”. A driver is a software module that tells your computer, and its applications, about the specific nature of your camera (hardware) device. In the case of a digital camera, the driver has a User Interface (DUI) that helps you to download images from your camera, and also make adjustments and changes to the camera itself.

Furthermore, the driver included with the ViviCam is a “Twain” driver. Twain is an industry communication standard (protocol) by which hardware developers (camera companies, like Vivitar Corporation) and software application developers have agreed to in order to ensure universal hardware/software compatibility and inter-operability. What this means to the user is that the ViviCam 2750, being Twain-compliant, will “talk” to any virtually any software application (an image editing application, for example) which is also Twain compliant.