Sealife DC300/DC310 manual Contents

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

How It Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Package contents . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Common (Optional)

Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

GETTING TO KNOW

THE CAMERA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Rear view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Mode dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 LCD monitor information . . . . . . 17 LED indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

GETTING STARTED . . . . . . . . . . 19

Installing the batteries . . . . . . . . . 19 Using the AC power adapter . . . 19 Loading a SD memory card. . . . . 20 Attaching the strap . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Choosing the language . . . . . . . . 21 Setting the date and time . . . . . . 21 Setting the image resolution

and quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

RECORD MODE. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Taking pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Using the viewfinder . . . . . . . . . 23 Using the LCD monitor . . . . . . . 24 Using the normal mode . . . . . . . . 24 Using the macro mode . . . . . . . . 25 Using the digital zoom . . . . . . . . . 26 Using the self-timer . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using the flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Taking pictures manually . . . . . . . 29

PLAYBACK MODE . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Viewing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Zoom Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Displaying thumbnail images . . . . 32 Slideshow display . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Protecting one image/video clip . 32 Setting DPOF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Deleting images . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4

MOVIE MODE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Recording video clips . . . . . . . . . 36 Viewing video clips . . . . . . . . . . 3 7

TRANSFERRING RECORDED IMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Step 1: Installing the USB driver on Windows

computers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Installing the USB driver

on Macintosh

computers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Step 2: Connecting the camera

to your computer. . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Step 3: Downloading images/video

clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 For computers running Windows

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 For computers running Mac OS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

INSTALLING

MGI PHOTOSUITE® . . . . . . . . . . 41

INSTALLING

MGI PHOTOVISTA® . . . . . . . . . . 42

INSTALLING THE USER’S MANUAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

INSTALLING

ACROBAT READER . . . . . . . . . 44

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