Vivitar Vivicam 3340 User Manual

							 3. Click “Next” to continue.  Follow the instructions to complete the camera driver installation. After the 
installation is completed, the following message will 
appear on the screen.   
4. Click Finish to restart your PC and complete               installation. 
            
 
   
						

							 · Note: Mac OS and Lycoris Desktop LX users will not be 
using the PC/web camera feature.  Therefore, no 
driver is required.  Your Mac OS or Lycoris Desktop LX 
computer will automatically recognize the camera and 
load its own USB mass-storage device driver.  
· Mac and Lycoris users: Make sure the camera is set to 
HDD (see section on Setup mode.) 
· Use the included USB cable to connect your camera to 
your computer.   
						

							 6. TRANSFERRING IMAGES TO A COMPUTER 6.1 Connecting Your Computer 
 
Method 1:  USB Mass Storage Device (all users) - 
 
Your digital camera functions with your computer as if it 
were a storage device (like a card reader, CD, or floppy 
disk) device. Follow these steps to use your camera as a 
mass storage device: 
 
4. Install the driver (if required) as described in the 
previous chapter. 
5. Turn on the camera and make sure the USB mode is 
set to “HDD”. 
6. Use the USB cable included with the camera to 
connect to your computer. 
7. After your system completes the configuration, you 
will find a “Removable Disk” drive under “My 
Computer” icon on your desktop. 
8. Double click on the removable disk drive icon and 
then double click on subsequent folders to locate your 
images and movies. You can drag & drop or cut & 
paste the image files from the removable disk 
(camera memory) to a folder in your hard disk. 
Method 2:  Using TWAIN (PC users only) - 
PC users may also use a process known as TWAIN to 
transfer images from camera to PC, as follows: 
9. Set your camera to HDD mode and connect your 
camera to your PC by USB cable.    
						

							 10. Launch any TWAIN compliant imaging application. Click on TWAIN > Select Source > Camera 
TWAIN DS (or V3340) option to invoke the TWAIN 
interface. Arcsoft PhotoImpression on the V3340 
CD-ROM supports TWAIN. For more information, 
please refer to its respective on-line help. 
11. The TWAIN program will automatically detect and 
read the images from your camera and display 
images indexes on the following screen. 
If TWAIN cannot read images from your camera, make 
sure the camera mode is set to Mass Storage (HDD) 
mode, the USB cable is connected, and Camera Twain 
DS or V3340 is selected from the list of sources. 
  
Details of the Vivicam 3340 TWAIN User Interface are 
explained in the following section:   
						

							 (1) Display TWAIN program information, version 
number and copyright. 
(2) Quit TWAIN program and return to the 
imaging application. 
(3) Save the selected images into a directory 
(4) Select all images 
(5) Unselect all images 
(6) Delete the selected images 
(7) Transfer the selected images to the 
application 
(8) Next page 
(9) Previous page 
(10) Images display area 
 
12. When you move the cursor over an image, an 
enlarged window will pop up for you to review.   
						

							  
13. You may select one or more images. Then, press the 
transfer button (7) to transfer the selected images to 
a the imaging application. You can transfer the 
images in either “Standard” or “Large” file size, as 
shown below:    
						

							 14. Standard and Large files sizes for images: Original Size 
640x480(VGA) 
1280X1024(1.3M) 
 
15. You may select one or more images. Then, press the 
Save button (3) to save the selected images into a 
specific directory.  
  
 
16. Using this dialog 
box, you can 
specify the 
Directory, 
Filename, Format 
and Picture Size of 
the images you are going to save. 
 Standard Size  
 
 
Large Size 640x480(VGA)         640x480(VGA)             1280x1024(1.3M)       1280x1024(1.3M)     
 
 
640x480(VGA)         1024x768(0.8M)             1280x1024(1.3M)       1600x1200(2.0M)    
						

							 7. USING YOUR CAMERA AS A PC CAMERA 7.1 Live Camera Video for PC Users - 
 
In addition to capturing movies and images, your camera 
can also act as a video camera for your PC. To use your 
camera as a PC Camera: 
1. Install the PC camera driver as described the previous 
chapter “Driver Installation” section. 
2. Turn on the camera and make sure the USB mode is set 
to “CAM”. 
3. Connect your camera to your PC using the USB cable.  
4. After your system completes the configuration, you will 
find a “Dual Mode Digital Camera 1.3M (Video)” in your 
Software Video capture source list. 
5. You can view live video from your camera using ArcSoft 
Video Impression which is included on the V3340 CD 
ROM. You may also use third-party video programs such 
as MS NetMeeting and Windows Movie maker.