Curtis VR285 operation manual Step Shot mode Record Mode, Install Driver, Camera Function

Operation Manual of VR285 Digital Video Camera

Appearance and Key Definition:

Battery Installation:

1.Open battery cover.

2.Install three AAA (7#) batteries according to positive and negative pole instruction.

3.Install battery cover.

It is recommended to use high-quality alkaline battery.

Step 1

Shot mode

Record Mode

Install Memory Card:

1.According to instruction beside memory card slot, fully insert SD card or MMC card into

the slot.

2. Slightly press the tail of memory card inwards, then the memory card will be popped up.

3.After memory card is inserted into the camera, LCD of camera will display memory card

icon.

General Memory Card Icon

Locked Memory Card Icon

1.

Mode Icon (Record)

1 There is no built-in storage in the camera, so please insert memory card before shooting;

1.

Mode Icon (Shoot)

9.

2 The camera can support 8GB SDHC card to the great utmost.

2.

Auto-shoot (Enable)

Auto-shoot Timer

2.

White Balance

3.

White Balance

10.

Memory Crad Icon

3.

Metering Mode

4.

Metering Mode

4.

Resolution (Record)

11.

Battery Capacity State

5.

Exposure Mode

5.

Time (Record)

Step 2

6.

Resolution (Picture)

12. Digital Zoom

6.

Memory Card Icon

Power On/Off:

Indicator

7.

Battery Capacity State

7.

Picture Quality

1. Power on: Press power key and hold on for about 2 seconds under power-off mode until LED screen is lighted, then

13. LED State (Enable)

8.

Digital Zoom Indicator

8.

Number of Picture Taken

9.

LED State (Enable)

the camera will be started up.

2. Power off: Press power key under power-on mode (idle mode) to shut down the camera.

Step 6

Menu Setup

3. Auto Off: The camera will be shut down automatically after being under idle mode for a certain time (1/3/5 minutes

Press Menu/Ok key to enter main menu; Under main menu, press the key to exit menu mode again.

can be set up) so as to save electric quantity.

Step 3

Press arrow key (

/ ) to select menu item; press (

) key to enter setup menu or submenu; press ( ) key to

Mode Conversion:

return main menu;

Press Menu/Ok key to confirm setup.

Press MODE to change mode.

Pressing ( ) key to return under submenu will not change last alteration.

After power on, the camera will enter record mode and record mode icon (

) will display

on LCD; press MODE key to switch over among the following three modes:

System setup mode (

) menu can be invoked under all modes.

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Each mode setup refers to as follows:

Record Mode Setup

Record Mode

Shot Mode

Play Mode

Resolution (Record)

640x480 / 320x240

Frame Rate (Frame/second)

High/Low

Metering Mode

Central metering/ Multi spot metering/Spot metering

Step 4

White Balance

Auto, Sunlight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Tungsten light

Prepare to shot:

Press the macro shooting switch on the top of the camera, then micro distance

focus and general focus will be switched over.

Camera Mode Setup

Micro distance focus: It is suitable for shooting object 15cm-25cm away from

Resolution (Picture)

1280x1024; 640x480

the camera lens. When application, please push macro shooting switch to the

Image Quality

Super Good, Good, Normal

end of

mark.

Metering Mode

Central metering/ Multi spot metering/Spot metering

General focus: It is suitable for shooting object 1.4 meters away from the

White Balance

Auto, Sunlight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Tungsten light

camera lens. When application, please push macro shooting switch to the end of

mark.

Exposure

Step length of +2.0~-2.0 is 0.3EV

Press the right key of arrow key to turn on LED fill light.

Camera Mode

Close: 2

seconds,; Auto-shoot: 10 seconds; Auto-shoot: continuous

shots

Under shot mode, press the left key of arrow key to turn on the 10 seconds’ auto-shot mode.

Special Effect

Normal, Black & White, Classic, Negative film: Green and Blue

Step 5

Shot

Record: Under record mode, press the shutter on the top of camera to begin to record, then press the shutter again to stop

Play Mode Setup

recording.

Shoot: Under shot mode, press the shutter on the top of camera to take a photograph or begin to take photograph

Lock Picture

Lock/unlock file; Lock all, Unlock all

Delete Picture

Delete the file; Delete all

automatically (auto-shot mode).

Slide Display

Start, Interval, Loop

Play: Under power-on mode, press MODE key to enter play mode, and pressing the left and right key of arrow key can

Normal, Black & White, Classic, Negative film: Red, Green and Blue;

select to play other pictures.

Special Effect

Binarization, Sunset; Warm, Cool, Solarization

Connect Camera to Computer

Install driver (camera mode).

Rotation

Rotation, Save and Back

Zoom-in

2048x1536 ; 1280x1024; 640x480

There are two kinds of modes to connect camera to computer: Movable disk (MSDC) and camera mode (PC-CAM).

Movable disk mode is default connection mode. It is not necessary to install driver for operating system above

Sound Memorandum

Add; Delete

WINDOWS ME.

Set up as Startup Interface

Yes/No (only valid for picture)

All files recorded by camera will be saved in “DCIM\ 100MEDIA” list of SD/SDHC card.

The camera driver can be found in attached installation disk.

System Setup

Sound

Set up shutter/power-on/off sound, key sound and volume

Power Frequency

50Hz / 60Hz

Auto-off

1minute/3minutes/5minutes

Install Driver

Date and Time

Set up date, time and display mode

1.

Place installation disk into CD-ROM drive of computer;

Language

Select language type

TV

PAL/TNSC

2.

WINDOWS window will pop up installation interface

USB

Movable Disk/Camera

automatically. Click “Install Driver” to install camera driver.

Stratup-screen

Close; System; Custom

3.

Finish installation according to installation hint window.

Format

Yes/No

4.

Reboot computer after installation is finished.

Default

Yes/No

Appendix:

Camera Function

System Request

1.

Install camera driver according to the above-mentioned method.

OS

Microsoft Windows 98 SE、Me、2000、 XP、Vista

CPU

Intel Pentium III above 667MHz or CPU with same performance

2.

Install attached software “Video Impression 2”.

Memory

Above 128MB

3.

Set up USB mode as “camera mode” through camera menu.

Sound Card/Display Card

Support DirectX8 or higher version

4.

Connect camera to computer.

CD Drive

4 times speed or quicker speed

5.

Start up program “Video Impression 2”, and click

Hard Disk

Residual space above 500MB

and

. Then, camera function can be realized as shown in

Other

1 standard USB1.1 or USB2.0 interface

right figure.

Technical Parameters

Image

0.3 mega pixels (CMOS)

Video

Resolution

JPG: 1280x1024(1.3 mega)

Sensor

(pixel)

640x480(0.3 mega)

Lens

Fix: F3.0, f=4.5mm

Video

Resolution

AVI：VGA(0.3 mega) --- 30/15 FPS

(pixel)

QVGA(0.1 mega) ---30/15FPS

LCD

If there is no image, please check whether the camera driver is installed correctly and check whether

Display

1.44 inch TFT

White Balance

Auto/Manual

the device name selected on window is

Screen

Memory

SD/SDHC(not include)

4 times

(128MB~8GB)

Digital Zoom

Medium

USB

USB2.0, TV Out

Size

94.6mm × 57.1mm ×40.5mm

Interface

Power

3

AAA

alkaline

battery

Weight

76g (excluding battery)

(not include)