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Starting PC mode
[Using the USB cable with Cradle (optional) ][Using the USB cable with Camera]
ˆConnecting the camera to a PC

ˆDisconnecting the camera and PC : Refer to page 72
(Removing the removable disk). 
If you selected [Printer] in Step 4, when you connect the camera to your
printer, the [Connecting Printer] message will display and the connection will
not be established.
In this case, disconnect the USB cable, and then follow the procedure from
Step 2 and onward.
ƒTo save battery power, it is recommended that you use the cradle (optional)
when connecting the camera to a computer.INFORMATION
®If you connect the USB cable to a USB port on your PC and then turn on the
power, the camera will automatically switch to computer connection mode.
®In this mode, you can download stored images to your PC through the USB
cable.
®The LCD monitor is always turned off in PC mode.
SETUP
Format
Date&time
Imprint
Sound
USBBack:

Set:OK
Computer
Printer

ˆConnecting the camera to a PC
1. In any mode with the exception of Voice Recording
mode, press the Menu button.
2. Press the LEFT/ RIGHT button and select the
[SETUP] menu tab.
3. Select the [USB] menu by pressing the UP/ DOWN
button and press the RIGHT button.
4. Use the UP and DOWN buttons to select
[Computer], and then press the OK button.
5. Press the menu button twice and the menu will
disappear. 
6. Connect the PC to the camera with the USB cable.
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ˆDownloading stored images
You can download the still images stored on the camera to your PCs hard disk
and print them or use a photo editing software to edit them.
1. Connect the camera to your PC with the USB cable.
2. On your computers desktop display, select
[My computer] and double click [Removable
Disk DCIM 100SSCAM].
The image files will then be displayed.
3. Select an image and press the right
mouse button.
4. A pop-up menu will open.
Click the [Cut] or [Copy] menu.
- [Cut] : cuts a selected file.
- [Copy] : copies files.
5. Click a folder where you want to paste the file.

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Starting PC mode

ƒWe recommend that you should copy the images to the PC to view them.
Opening images directly from the removable disk may be subject to
unexpected disconnection.

ƒWhen you upload a file that is not taken by this camera to the Removable
Disk, the [File Error!] message will be displayed on the LCD monitor in the
PLAY mode, and nothing is displayed in THUMBNAIL mode.CAUTION7. An image file is transferred from the camera
to your PC. 6. Press the right mouse button and a pop-up
menu will open. Click [Paste].
- By using [Digimax Master], you can see the stored images in the memory
directly on the PC monitor and you can copy or move the image files.
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Removing the removable disk
6. A [Unplug or Eject Hardware] window will
open. Click the [Close] button and the
removable disk will be removed safely.
7. Unplug the USB cable.1. A USB Driver for MAC is not included with the software CD as MAC OS
supports the camera driver.
2. Check the MAC OS version during start-up. 
This camera is compatible with MAC OS 9.0 ~ 10.4.
3. Connect the camera to the Macintosh and turn the camera power on.
4. A new icon will be displayed on the desktop after connecting the camera to
the MAC.
1. Double click a new icon on the desktop and the folder in the memory will be
displayed.
2. Select an image file and copy or move it to MAC.
ƒFor Mac OS 10.0 or later : First complete uploading from computer to
camera and then remove the removable disk
with the Extract command.

ƒIf a movie clip can’t play back on the Mac OS, please visit the following
site(http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/) and download the codec. Or, use a
media player that supports the Xvid codec (Mplayer, VLC(VideoLAN Client)
media player).CAUTION
Setting up the USB Driver for MACUsing the USB Driver for MAC

ˆWindows 98/98SE
1. Check whether the camera and PC are transferring a file. 
If the camera status lamp blinks, please wait until the lamp has finished
blinking and is constantly on.
2. Unplug the USB cable.

ˆWindows 2000/ME/XP
(The illustrations may differ from those shown depending on  the Windows O/S.)
1. Check whether the camera and PC are transferring a file. 
If the camera status lamp blinks, please wait until the lamp has finished
blinking and is constantly on.
3. The [Unplug or Eject Hardware] window will
open. Select the [USB Mass Storage Device]
and click the [Stop] button.
4. The [Stop a Hardware device] window will open.
Select the [USB Mass Storage Device] and click
the [OK] button. 2. Double-click the [Unplug or Eject Hardware] icon
on the task bar.
5. A [Safe to Remove Hardware] window will
open. Click the [OK] button.
[Double-click!]
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ˆTo remove the USB driver, refer to the process shown below.
1. Connect the camera to your PC and turn them on.
2. Check whether the Removable Disk is on the [My Computer]. 
3. Remove the [Samsung Digital Camera] on the Device manager. 
6. Uninstallation is complete. 

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Removing the USB Driver for Windows 98SE
Digimax Master

ˆYou can download, view, edit and save your images and movies with this
software. This software is only compatible with Windows except for 
the Windows 98.

ˆTo start the program, click [Start Programs Samsung Digimax Master].
3. Click [Next >] button.
ƒDownloading images
1. Connect the camera to your PC.
2. A window for downloading images will
display after connecting the camera to your
PC.
- To download the captured images, select
the [Select All] button.
- Select desired folder in the window and
click the [Select All] button. You can save
captured images and selected folder.
- If you click the [Cancel] button, downloading will be
cancelled. 4. Disconnect the USB cable. 
5. Remove the [Digimax S800] on the Add/Remove Programs Properties. 
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Digimax Master

ƒImage viewer : You can view the stored images.¹
½
¾
¿
º
»
¼- Image viewer functions are listed below.
¹Menu bar : You can select menus.
File, Edit, View, Tools, Change functions, Auto download, help, etc.
ºImage selection window : You can select the desired images in this window.
»Media type selection menu : You can select image viewer, image edit and
movie edit functions in this menu.
¼Preview window : You can preview an image or a movie clip and check the
multi media information.
½Zoom bar : You can change preview size.
¾Folder display window : You can see the folder location of the selected
image.
¿Image display window : Images of the selected folder are displayed.

Refer to the [Help] menu in Digimax Master for further information.
4. Select a destination and make a folder to
save downloaded images and folders.
- Folder names can be made in order of date
and images will be downloaded.
- Folder name will be made as you want and
images will be downloaded.
- After selecting a folder that was made
before, images will be downloaded.
5. Click [Next >] button.
6. A window will open as shown alongside.
The destination of the selected folder will be
displayed on the upper side of the window.
Click the [Start] button to download the
images.7. Downloaded images will be displayed.
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ƒImage edit : You can edit the still image.¹
º
»¼- Image edit functions are listed below.
¹Edit menu : You can select the following menus.
[Tools] : You can resize or crop the selected image. See the [Help] menu.
[Adjust] : You can modify image quality. See the [Help] menu.
[Retouch] : You can change image or insert effects on the image. See the
[Help] menu.
ºDrawing tools : Tools for editing an image.
»Image display window : A selected image displays in this window.
¼Preview window : You can preview the changed image.

A still image edited with Digimax Master can’t be played back on the camera.

Refer to the [Help] menu in Digimax Master for further information.

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Digimax Master

ƒMovie edit : You can get the still image, movie clip, narration, music files together
in a movie clip. ¹
º- Movie clip edit functions are listed below.
¹Edit menu : You can select the following menus.
[Add Media] : You can add other media elements to a movie.
[Edit Clip] : You can change the brightness, contrast, colour and saturation.
[Effects] : You can insert an effect.
[Set Text] : You can insert texts.
[Narrate] : You can insert a narration.
[Produce] : You can save the edited multi media as a new file name.
You can select AVI, Windows media (wmv), Windows media
(asf) and movie clip for this camera (avi, MPEG-4) file types.
ºFrame display window : You can insert multi media in this window.

Some movie clips that were compressed with a codec that is not compatible with
the Digimax Master can’t play back in the Digimax Master.

Refer to the [Help] menu in Digimax Master for further information.
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FA QDigimax Master
FA QFA Q

ˆPlease check the following if the USB connection malfunctions.Case 1 USB cable is not connected or it is not the supplied USB cable. 
Connect the supplied USB cable. 
Case 2 The camera is not recognised by your PC.
Sometimes, the camera may appear under [Unknown Devices] in
Device Manager. 
Install the camera driver correctly.
Turn off the camera, remove the USB cable, plug in the USB cable
again, and then turn on the camera.
Case 3 There is an unexpected error during file transfer.
Turn the camera power off and on again. Transfer the file again.
Case 4 When using the USB hub.
There may be a problem in connecting the camera to the PC through
the USB hub if the PC and the hub are not compatible. Wherever
possible, connect the camera to the PC directly.
Case 5 Are other USB cables connected to the PC?
The camera may malfunction when it is connected to the PC at the
same time as another USB cable. In this case, disconnect the other
USB cable, and connect only one USB cable to the camera.

ˆMovies for viewing on the camera : You can play back a movie on this camera
1. Select a movie for playing back on the camera by pressing the [Add] button. 
Insert effects and edit the movie. To save the edited movie, press the [Make] button. 
2. Select [Movie for camera] video type. 
3. Select Camera option, Output location, File name and press the [Make] button. 
- Frame size : Selecting the width and height of the frame. 
- Frame rate : Selecting the frame rate per second. 
- File location : Selecting a location where the edited movie is saved. 
- File name : To play back the movie on the camera, you must keep the DCF
rule. Save the movie as S800XXXX.avi (You can input any
numbers between 0001 ~ 9999
instead of XXXX letters). 
4. Connect the camera to the computer with the
included USB cable. 
5. Copy the edited movie to [Removable
Disk\DCIM\XXXSSCAM]. 
(You can input any numbers between 100 ~ 999
instead of XXX letters)
6. You can play back the movie in the Play mode of
the camera. 
Play:Capture:E
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							Case 6 When I open the Device Manager (by clicking Start (Settings) 
Control Panel (Performance and Maintenance) System 
(Hardware) Device Manager), there are Unknown Devices or Other
Devices entries with a yellow question mark(?) beside them or devices
with an exclamation mark(!) beside them.
Right-click on the entry with the question (?) or exclamation (!) mark
and select Remove. Restart the PC and connect the camera again.
For Windows 98 PC, remove the camera driver also, restart the PC,
and then reinstall the camera driver.
Case 7 In some security programs (Norton Anti Virus, V3, etc.), the computer
may not recognise the camera as a removable disk.
Stop the security programs and connect the camera to the computer.
Refer to the security program instructions about how to temporarily
disable the program.
Case 8 The camera is connected to the USB port located on the  front of the
computer.
When the camera is connected to the USB port located on the front of
the computer, the computer may not   recognise the camera. Connect
the camera to the USB port located on the back of  the computer.

ˆWhen the movie clip doesn’t play back on the PC

When the movie clip recorded by the camera doesn’t play back on the PC,
the causes are mostly due to the codec installed on the PC.

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FA Q

ƒWhen codec for play back the movie clip isn’t installed
Install the codec as listed below.
[ Installing codec for Windows ]
1) Insert the CD provided with the camera.
2) Run the windows explorer and select [CD-ROM drive:\XviD] folder and
click the XviD-1.0.3-20122004.exe file.

The XviD codec is distributed according to the GNU General Public License
and everyone can copy, distribute and change this codec. This License
applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the
copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General
Public License. 
For more information, see the License documents
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).
[ Installing codec for Mac OS ]
1) Visit the following site for downloading the codec.
(http://www.divx.com/divx/mac)
2) Click the [Free Download] button located at the upper right side of the page
and a window for downloading the DivX codec will display.
3) Select Mac OS you use and click the [Download] button. Save it on a folder
you want to.
4) Run the downloaded file and the codec for playing back the movie clip will
be installed.

If a movie clip can’t play back on the Mac OS, use a media player that
supports XviD codec (Mplayer, VideoLanClient).
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FA Q
Correct Disposal of This ProductCorrect Disposal of This Product (Waste Electrical & Electronic
Equipment)
(Applicable in the European Union and other European countries with
separate collection systems) This marking shown on the product or its
literature, indicates that it should not be disposed with other household
wastes at the end of its working life. 
To prevent possible harm to the environment or human health from uncontrolled
waste disposal, please separate this from other types of wastes and recycle it
responsibly to promote the sustainable reuse of material resources. Household
users should contact either the retailer where they purchased this product, or their
local government office, for details of where and how they can take this item for
environmentally safe recycling. Business users should contact their supplier and
check the terms and conditions of the purchase contract. 
This product should not be mixed with other commercial wastes for disposal.

ƒWhen the DirectX 9.0 or later is not installed
Install the DirectX 9.0 or later
1) Insert the CD provided with the camera
2) Run the windows explorer and select the [CD-ROM drive: USB
Driver\DirectX 9.0] folder and click the DXESETUP.exe file.
The DirectX will be installed. Visit the following site for downloading the
DirectX.http://www.microsoft.com/directx

ƒIf a PC (Windows 98) stops responding while the camera and PC are connected
repeatedly
If a PC (Windows 98) is turned on for a long time and the camera is
connected repeatedly, the PC may not recognise the camera. In this case, re-
start the PC. 

ƒIf a PC connected with the camera stops responding while Windows is starting. 
In this case, disconnect the PC and the camera and Windows will start.
If the problem happens continuously, set the Legacy USB Support to disable
and re-start the PC. The Legacy USB Support is in the BIOS setup menu.
(The BIOS setup menu differs from the PC manufacturers and some BIOS
menus don’t have Legacy USB Support) If you can’t change the menu by
yourself, contact to the PC manufacturer or BIOS manufacturer. 

ƒIf the movie clip can’t be deleted, removable disk can’t be extracted or an error
message displays during the file transfer.  
If you install only the Digimax Master, the problems mentioned above
occasionally happen. 
- Close the Digimax Master program by clicking the Digimax Master icon on
the Taskbar.
- Install all the application programs included in the software CD. 
(You must install the Movie clip codec)
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FCC notice
MEMO

ˆ

ˆ
NOTE: 
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a
Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are
designed to pro-vide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a
residential installation.
This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and,
if not in-stalled and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause
harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee
that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does
cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be
determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try
to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:
- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which
the receiver is connected.
- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

ˆ 
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CAUTION : 
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer
responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the
equipment.

ˆ 
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Declaration of Conformity
Trade Name : SAMSUNG TECHWIN
Model No. : Digimax S800
Responsible Party  : Samsung Opto-Electronics America, INC.
Address : 40 Seaview Dr. Secaucus,NJ 07094
Telephone No. : 201-902-0347
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to
the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful
interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received,
including interference that may cause undesired operation.
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