Pacific Digital MF-810S user manual Connecting a USB Card-Reader or Thumb-drive

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into the MemoryFrame until the internal memory of the MemoryFrame is full.

Important! The camera will need to be set into the appropriate mode to transmit its pictures. Many cameras have two modes of operation: proprietary and standard (driver-less) mode, and the camera has menu items and/or buttons that set the USB mode. The standard (driver-less) makes the camera look like a drive-letter to Windows Explorer without the need for the camera manufacturer's custom driver. This standard driverless mode (called “disk-drive” mode by some cameras) is required to interface to MemoryFrame. See your camera’s user manual for details of how to prepare your camera for driver-less USB transfers.

After the camera is connected, use the MemoryFrame’s onboard Menu System (described in Chapter 9 of this manual), and select either the “Copy Pictures from Camera” option or the “Fill MemoryFrame from Camera”option from the Main Menu.

Follow the onscreen instructions for transferring images to MemoryFrame from the camera and for setting the display times and transitions. More information on navigating the menu system is described in the Camera Download section of Chapter 9, the MemoryFrame Menu System chapter.

8.Connecting a USB Card-Reader or Thumb-drive

If you have a Camera that is not compliant with the USB Mass Storage specification, you can still bypass your PC by using MemoryFrame directly with USB thumb-drives or USB memory-card readers that support the USB Mass Storage Specification (see Chapter 12).

Important! To transfer images from the Memory Card Reader directly to your MemoryFrame, you first need to prepare your MemoryFrame for communicating, as described in the section below.

Preparing MemoryFrame to Communicate with Card-Readers

The MemoryFrame cannot be managed or communicate with a card reader while it is displaying a slide show. In all cases, you must stop the slideshow by pressing the Menu Button. This will place the

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Pacific Digital MF-810S user manual Connecting a USB Card-Reader or Thumb-drive