Operation Manual of VR285 Digital Video Camera
Appearance and Key Definition:
Battery Installation:
1. Open battery cover.
2. Install three AAA (7#) batteries according to positive and negative pole
instruction.
3. Install battery cover.
It is recommended to use high-quality alkaline battery.
Step 1
Shot mode
Record Mode
Install Memory Card:
1.According to instruction beside memory card slot, fully insert SD card or MMC card into
the slot.
2. Slightly press the tail of memory card inwards, then the memory card will be popped up.
3.After memory card is inserted into the camera, LCD of camera will display memory card
icon.
General Memory Card Icon
Locked Memory Card Icon
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Mode Icon (Record)
White Balance
Metering Mode
Resolution (Record)
Time (Record)
Memory Card Icon
Battery Capacity State
Digital Zoom Indicator
LED State (Enable)
1 There is no built-in storage in the camera, so please insert memory card before shooting;
2 The camera can support 8GB SDHC card to the great utmost.
1. Mode Icon (Shoot)
2. Auto-shoot (Enable)
3. White Balance
4. Metering Mode
5. Exposure Mode
6. Resolution (Picture)
7. Picture Quality
8. Number of Picture Taken
9. Auto-shoot Timer
10. Memory Crad Icon
11. Battery Capacity State
12. Digital Zoom
Indicator
13. LED State (Enable)
Step 2
Power On/Off:
1. Power on: Press power key and hold on for about 2 seconds under power-off mode until LED screen is lighted, then
the camera will be started up.
Step 6
Menu Setup
2. Power off: Press power key under power-on mode (idle mode) to shut down the camera.
3. Auto Off: The camera will be shut down automatically after being under idle mode for a certain time (1/3/5 minutes
Press Menu/Ok key to enter main menu; Under main menu, press the key to exit menu mode again.
can be set up) so as to save electric quantity.
Step 3
Press arrow key (ꢀ/ꢁ) to select menu item; press (ꢂ) key to enter setup menu or submenu; press (ꢃ) key to
return main menu;
Press Menu/Ok key to confirm setup.
Mode Conversion:
Press MODE to change mode.
Pressing (ꢃ) key to return under submenu will not change last alteration.
After power on, the camera will enter record mode and record mode icon (
on LCD; press MODE key to switch over among the following three modes:
) will display
System setup mode (
) menu can be invoked under all modes.
Each mode setup refers to as follows:
Record Mode Setup
Resolution (Record)
ꢂ
Play Mode
Æ
Æ
640x480 / 320x240
Record Mode
Shot Mode
Frame Rate (Frame/second)
Metering Mode
White Balance
High/Low
Central metering/ Multi spot metering/Spot metering
Auto, Sunlight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Tungsten light
Step 4
Prepare to shot:
Press the macro shooting switch on the top of the camera, then micro distance
focus and general focus will be switched over.
Micro distance focus: It is suitable for shooting object 15cm-25cm away from
the camera lens. When application, please push macro shooting switch to the
Camera Mode Setup
Resolution (Picture)
Image Quality
1280x1024; 640x480
Super Good, Good, Normal
end of
mark.
Metering Mode
White Balance
Exposure
Central metering/ Multi spot metering/Spot metering
Auto, Sunlight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Tungsten light
Step length of +2.0~-2.0 is 0.3EV
General focus: It is suitable for shooting object 1.4 meters away from the
camera lens. When application, please push macro shooting switch to the end of
Press the right key of arrow key to turn on LED fill light.
Under shot mode, press the left key of arrow key to turn on the 10 seconds’ auto-shot mode.
mark.
Close:
shots
2
seconds,; Auto-shoot: 10 seconds; Auto-shoot: continuous
Camera Mode
Special Effect
Normal, Black & White, Classic, Negative film: Green and Blue
Step 5
Shot
Record: Under record mode, press the shutter on the top of camera to begin to record, then press the shutter again to stop
recording.
Shoot: Under shot mode, press the shutter on the top of camera to take a photograph or begin to take photograph
automatically (auto-shot mode).
Play: Under power-on mode, press MODE key to enter play mode, and pressing the left and right key of arrow key can
select to play other pictures.
ꢂ
Play Mode Setup
Lock Picture
Delete Picture
Slide Display
Lock/unlock file; Lock all, Unlock all
Delete the file; Delete all
Start, Interval, Loop
Normal, Black & White, Classic, Negative film: Red, Green and Blue;
Binarization, Sunset; Warm, Cool, Solarization
Rotation, Save and Back
2048x1536 ; 1280x1024; 640x480
Add; Delete
Special Effect
Connect Camera to Computer
Install driver (camera mode).
There are two kinds of modes to connect camera to computer: Movable disk (MSDC) and camera mode (PC-CAM).
Movable disk mode is default connection mode. It is not necessary to install driver for operating system above
WINDOWS ME.
Rotation
Zoom-in
Sound Memorandum
Set up as Startup Interface
Yes/No (only valid for picture)
All files recorded by camera will be saved in “DCIM\ 100MEDIA” list of SD/SDHC card.
System Setup
Sound
Power Frequency
Auto-off
Date and Time
Language
TV
USB
Stratup-screen
Format
The camera driver can be found in attached installation disk.
Set up shutter/power-on/off sound, key sound and volume
50Hz / 60Hz
1minute/3minutes/5minutes
Set up date, time and display mode
Select language type
Install Driver
PAL/TNSC
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2.
Place installation disk into CD-ROM drive of computer;
WINDOWS window will pop up installation interface
automatically. Click “Install Driver” to install camera driver.
Finish installation according to installation hint window.
Reboot computer after installation is finished.
Movable Disk/Camera
Close; System; Custom
Yes/No
3.
4.
Default
Yes/No
Appendix:
System Request
Microsoft Windows 98 SE、Me、2000、 XP、Vista
Camera Function
OS
CPU
Memory
Sound Card/Display Card
CD Drive
Intel Pentium III above 667MHz or CPU with same performance
Above 128MB
Support DirectX8 or higher version
4 times speed or quicker speed
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Install camera driver according to the above-mentioned method.
Install attached software “Video Impression 2”.
Set up USB mode as “camera mode” through camera menu.
Connect camera to computer.
Hard Disk
Other
Technical Parameters
Image
Sensor
Residual space above 500MB
1 standard USB1.1 or USB2.0 interface
5.
Start up program “Video Impression 2”, and click
and
right figure.
. Then, camera function can be realized as shown in
Video
(pixel)
Resolution
Resolution
JPG: 1280x1024(1.3 mega)
640x480(0.3 mega)
0.3 mega pixels (CMOS)
AVI：VGA(0.3 mega) --- 30/15 FPS
Video
(pixel)
Lens
Fix: F3.0, f=4.5mm
1.44 inch TFT
QVGA(0.1 mega) ---30/15FPS
LCD
Display
Screen
White Balance
Digital Zoom
Auto/Manual
4 times
If there is no image, please check whether the camera driver is installed correctly and check whether
the device name selected on window is
SD/SDHC(not include)
(128MB~8GB)
Memory
Medium
USB
Interface
Size
94.6mm × 57.1mm ×40.5mm
76g (excluding battery)
USB2.0, TV Out
3
AAA alkaline battery
Weight
Power
(not include)
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