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WARNING
To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose the unit to rain or moisture
For the Customers in the U.S.A
If you have any questions about this product, you may call:
Sony Customer Information Center 1-800-222-SONY(7669)
Attention for the Customers in Europe
NOTICE FOR THE
CUSTOMERS IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM
For the Customers in
Do not shake or strike the camera
“Memory Stick”s unusable or image data breakdown, damage or loss may occur
LCD screen, finder (only models with a finder) and lens
Be sure to read the following before using your camera
Operating instructions
Introduction
Stick”
“ImageMixer”
How to use the PLAY/STILL
MOVIE selector
How to use the control button
Identifying the parts
O(Flash) button/Z “Memory Stick” cover
(Flash) lamp (22)“Memory Stick” slot (17)
wl MS /FD“Memory( Stick”/floppy
disk) selector
Preparing the power supply
Installing the battery pack
Charging the battery pack
NP-F330(supplied)/F550 (optional) battery pack
Auto power-offfunction
started
again, slide the POWER switch down to turn on the camera again
Note on the POWER ON/OFF (CHG) lamp during charging
STILL mode recording/playback when using “Memory Stick”s
“Memory Stick”s
(77°F) with a fully charged battery pack, 640× 480 image size
and in NORMAL recording mode
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Using the AC power adaptor
Setting the date and time
Select the desired date display format with
Getting
Select the year, month, day, hour or minute item you want to set with
The item to be set is indicated with v/V
started
Inserting a floppy disk
Inserting a “Memory Stick”
Recording still images
Press the shutter button fully down. The shutter
“RECORDING”
appears
on the
LCD screen, and the image will be recorded on the floppy disk or the
Adjusting the brightness of the LCD screen
To turn off the LCD backlight
Using the zoom feature
If you cannot get a sharp focus on a close subject
Minimum focal distance to the subject
The indicators on the LCD screen during recording
Using the self-timer
Recording images with the flash
Recording moving images
Playing back still images
Playing back moving images
To pause playback
Viewing images using a computer
Viewing images on a computer using the USB cable
Viewing images on Windows
Step 1 Installing the USB driver to the computer
General procedure for viewing images
Step 1 Installing the USB driver to the computer (page 29)
Step
Step 2 Connecting your camera to your computer using the USB cable (page 30)
Step 3 Viewing images on Windows (page 32)
For Windows XP users
procedure fromStep
Step 2 Connecting your camera to your computer using the USB cable
2Connectcamera. the AC power adaptor to your cam
Use the supplied dedicated USB cable to
Computer
To the USB
To the USB jack
Step 3 Viewing images on Windows
If the Copy Wizard appears (for Windows XP users)
If the Removable Disk does not appear
Viewing images on Macintosh
Step 1 Installing the USB driver to the computer
Double-click“SetupMenu”theicon in the CD-ROMwindow
4Click“USB Driver” button (folder button)
The folder containing the six Sony USB driver related files opens
“OK.”
Step 3 Viewing images on Macintosh
Notes on using your computer
Image file storage destinations and image file names
Location
File
Meaning
sssf
When using“Memory Stick”s
ssss
For Windows Me users (The drive recognizing the camera is [D:])
Folder
Imcif100
DSC0ssss.JPG
DSC0ssss.TIF
TIFF mode (page 63)
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“ ImageMixer”
Installing
For Macintosh users
4Remove the CD-ROMfrom the computer
To copy image data to your“ImageMixer”computer usi
“ImageMixer”
Use the following procedure of
2Start“ImageMixer” on your computer
Open the nested windows in the following“Start”order:t“Program” t
Import
Capture
Preferences
Click the Preferences button
“Capturing/Recording Preferences” screen appears
6Select a folder in which the copied image is stored
Click
Then, click “OK.”
Viewing images using “ImageMixer”
Viewing the
on-line
help of
Before performing advanced operations
How to use the PLAY/STILL/MOVIE selector
How to use the control button
Menu bar
performing Before
operations advanced
The
How to change the menu settings
Menu settings
(self-timer)
Records with the self-timer(page 21)
EFFECT
Item
FORMAT
Formats a
(When the
MS/FD
selector is
Before
advanced
CAMERA
ISO
TOOL
COPY
FD t FD
RESIZE
SETUP
DEMO
INDEX (Only in PLAY (single) mode)
DELETE (Only in PLAY (single) mode)
(Return) (Only in PLAY (INDEX) mode)
BVarious recording
Setting the image size
(IMAGE SIZE)
The number of images or the time that you can record on a floppy disk or a
“Memory Stick” (8 MB)
Image size
Usage
Printing in post card size
Creating Clip Motion Files
Record the image for the first frame
Record the image for the next frame
Image recording can be repeated up to the maximum number of recordable frames
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•Reading and writing data takes more time than normal image recording
Recording still images for e-mail (E-MAIL)
Recording text documents (TEXT)
Recording still images as uncompressed files (TIFF)
Recording images in
Setting the distance
macro
to the subject
Using the PROGRAM AE function
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Adjusting the exposure (EXPOSURE)
Adjusting the white balance (WHITE BALANCE)
Recording the date and time on the still image (DATE/TIME)
Enjoying picture effects (PICTURE EFFECT)
BVarious playback
Playing back six images at once (INDEX)
Enlarging a part of the still image (Zoom and trimming)
Playing back the still images in order
(SLIDE SHOW)
Viewing images on a TV screen
B Editing
Preventing accidental
erasure (PROTECT)
Deleting images
(DELETE)
Changing the recorded still image size (RESIZE)
Copying images
(COPY)
In single mode
set to MS
When selecting [MS
FD], if the
amount of total images that wi
To cancel copying partway
Copying all the information on your floppy disk (DISK COPY)
Selecting still images to print (PRINT MARK)
Format
B As an external drive
Using the camera as
an external drive of a
computer
Precautions
— Very humid
— Vibrating
— Dusty or dirty
— Extremely hot or cold
On the
On “Memory Stick”s
Using your camera abroad
About “InfoLITHIUM” battery pack
Effective use of the battery pack
—Use the large capacity battery pack (NP-F550,optional)
How tostore the bat
1.Fully charge the battery
2.Discharge on your camera
Troubleshooting
Cause and/or Solution
You cannot display a print • You cannot display print marks on moving images
mark
text images and Clip Motion images
tMove your camera away from the TV, etc
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Your computer does not recognize your camera
Battery packs
The battery pack cannot be charged
• The battery level is low
tUse the AC power adaptor (page 13)
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Warning and notice messages
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Self-diagnosisdisplay
Specifications
LCD screen indicators
The indicators duringstillimag
“Memory
Stick”
The indicators during moving image playback
or“Memorya Stick”
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