Vivitar Vivicam 3350 Users Manual

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 4.10 Light Frequency - 
 
When capturing images or movie clips under indoor lighting the image 
quality will be best if you set the camera to match the frequency of the 
room-lighting. In generally 60Hz frequency is used in United States and Asia. 50Hz is most common in UK, Japan, and Europe. 
 
To change the frequency, turn on the camera. Press the Menu button eight 
times until 50 or 60 appears in the display. This is the current setting.  Press 
the shutter button to change to the other frequency setting. 
 
4.11 Image Storage - 
 
The following chart summarizes the number of images that can be stored in 
the camera, depending upon both resolution and compression settings.  
 
Resolution Ld compression Hd compression Hi = 640 x 480 (VGA) 26 52 Lo = 320 x 240 (QVGA) 104 208 Movie = 320 x 240 (QVGA) 17 seconds (104 frames) Note: The best quality images are captured using Hi and Ld. 
 
   
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 4.12 Techniques for Capturing the Best Images - 
 
The ViviCam 3350 can take good images.  There are a few tips for getting 
the best possible images from your camera. 
 
1. Use good lighting.  The ViviCam 3350 works best with adequate 
lighting.  Since it has no flash your subject must be adequately 
illuminated. 
2. Avoid uneven lighting and high contrast.  Compose your scenes 
so that there are no deep shadows or bright backgrounds. The 
key to good images is balanced (even) scene lighting. 
3. Minimum focus distance.  Make sure your subject is not too close.  The minimum focus distance is three to four feet (one meter.) 
4. Position your primary subject in the center of the image.  The 
ViviCam 3350 focuses best in the center of the image.  The 
edges of your images are softly focused, giving a nice soft 
perimeter effect to each image. 
   
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 5.0 Download Images to your Computer 
 
Note:  Before connecting your ViviCam 3350 to your PC for the first time 
you must first install the Twain driver first (see section 3.1).  After the driver 
software has been installed, your still images and movie clips can be 
transferred to your PC using the USB cable.  You will know that the 
ViviCam 3350 is ready to use when two icons appear on your desktop.  The 
“ViviCam 3350” icon is used for downloading still images to your computer.  
The “PCCam” icon is for using the live video feature of the ViviCam 3350. 
 
ViviCam 3350 Desktop icons: 
 
 
Desktop icon used for 
downloading still images Icon used for live video 
(PCCam) feature 
 
Connect your camera to your PC using the USB cable.  The camera will 
beep once, indicating the connection is established.  The camera 
installation process will be completed the first time the camera is connected 
to your PC.   
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 5.1 Transfer Images to your PC - 
 
To transfer images to your PC 
connect the camera to your PC.   
 
Double click on the desktop camera 
icon:   
 
   
This screen (called the Graphical 
User Interface, or GUI) will appear:  
 
Step 1: Click on the “Down Load” 
button.   
 
 
 
Images from the camera will appear in the 
display area.  (If there are more than twelve 
images you may click on the “Next Page” 
button to see more.)  These small images 
are called “thumbnail images”.  They are 
small representations of the images stored in 
the camera.The Vivicam 3350 GUI   
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Step 2:  Select the images you wish to transfer to your PC.  You may 
download some, or all, of the images in the camera.  You may select those 
images that are of interest to you by clicking on any thumbnail image to 
select it.   
 
Selected images will be highlighted with a red border around the thumbnail 
image.  To un-select an image click on it again to remove the red border.  
An image that is un-selected will have a blue border.  You may enlarge a 
thumbnail image by right-clicking on it. You may select every image by 
clicking on the “Select All” button. 
 
Step 3:  After you have selected some images, click on the button labeled 
“Save to Disk”.  This is described in more detail in the following section. 
 
Summary of ViviCam 3350 GUI functions:  
o Click on “Down Load” to examine the images in the camera as thumbnail 
images 
o Click on an image to select it 
o Click on it again to deselect it 
o Right click on an image to enlarge it 
o Click on “Select All” to select all images 
o If there are more than twelve images click on “Next Page” to see more 
o Click on “Save to Disk” to save your images and movie clips 
    
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 5.1.1 Saving your Images to Disk - 
 
When you click on “Save to Disk” you will be presented with this dialog box: 
 
o Select or create a folder to save your 
images (Save in…desired folder) 
o Give your images a name prefix in the 
“File Name” field (perhaps….Photo) 
o Select a file type (JPG is highly 
recommended) 
o If you have movie clips, select a frame 
rate for your clips (6 fps is good.) 
o Click on Save 
o Your still-images will be saved as 
image files (JPG) that can be used with virtually any imaging software. 
o Movie clips will be saved in AVI format.  Use Windows Media Player to 
view your movie clips. 
o You may email your images as attachments. 
 
Note:  You may also launch the ViviCam 3350 GUI by clicking on: Start, 
Programs, ViviCam 3350, Vivicam 3350. 
 
Note: After your images are downloaded to your PC, disconnect the camera 
and close the ViviCam 3350 GUI.  Your images remain in camera memory.  Delete the images from camera memory as described in section 4.7 so that 
you may capture more images.   
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 5.2 Transferring Images to a Twain-aware application – 
 
You may call the Vivicam 3350 GUI from any Twain-aware application such 
as PhotoImpression using the acquire function. There is an advantage to 
doing this.  Instead of saving your images directly to disk you may transfer 
your images to an image-editing program.  You may first edit your images 
(rotate, crop, adjust colors, etc.) before saving them to disk.  You may use 
any Twain-aware imaging application.  
 
5.2.1 Transferring your Images to PhotoImpression – 
 
To transfer your images from the ViviCam 3350 to 
PhotoImpression follow these steps:  
 
Step 1:  Start PhotoImpression.  Click on 
the camera/scanner button: 
Step 2:  Select the Twain source.  From the “Select 
Source” drop down 
menu locate and 
highlight “ViviCam 
3350”.  (You may 
have other Twain 
devices on your PC.)   
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Step 3: Click on the Acquire 
button.  (The button with 
the image of a scanner and 
digital camera). 
 
The ViviCam 3350 GUI will 
appear.  Use the ViviCam 
3350 GUI as described in 
Section 5.1 with one 
exception.  Because the 
ViviCam 3350 GUI has 
been called from a Twain application, a fourth yellow button will appear in 
the GUI.  Click on “Transfer to AP” to transfer images into the calling 
application. 
 
Note: A Twain-aware application is any software application that recognizes 
a Twain device.  Most imaging and image editing application programs 
support Twain cameras.  Refer to the help file for your favorite image 
program for more information.   
 
Note: Some Twain applications only allow you to transfer one image at a 
time. 
   
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 5.2.2 Transferring your Images to FunHouse – 
 
To transfer your images from the ViviCam 3350 to 
FunHouse follow these steps: 
 
Step 1: Start FunHouse.  Select a template. 
 
Step 2: Click on “Get Photo”. 
 
Step 3: Click on the “Acquire” button.  The Twain 
source selection dialog box will appear.  Select ViviCam 3350 and the 
ViviCam 3350 GUI will appear.  Use the ViviCam 3350 GUI as usual. 
 
Note:  You may also select “Dual-Mode DCS(2770)” to import a live-video 
snapshot from the camera.   
						

							Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 6.0 PC/Web Camera Video Function 
 
6.1 Using the ViviCam 3350 in Video Mode – 
 
PC users may use their Vivicam 3350 as a PC/Web cam.  Note that the 
ViviCam 3350 is a dual mode camera.  It is both a digital-still camera and a 
PC video camera.  In the video mode the ViviCam 3350 is known as the 
“Dual-Mode DSC(2770)” camera.  
 
To use your camera as a PC/web cam you must first install the driver from 
the Vivicam 3350 CD ROM.  After the driver is installed and the camera is 
connected to your PC you may view live video several ways: 
 
1. Use the PCCam video utility included with the camera.  
Double Click on the “Live Video” icon (refer to section 5.) 
 
2. From the Windows XP desktop double click on My Computer.  Look 
for “Scanners and 
Cameras”.  Locate the 
Dual-Mode DSC(2770) 
camera icon.  Double 
click on the 
video-camera icon to 
begin the video function.