CLASSROOM DIGITAL CAMERAQuick User Guide for Students

Sanyo VPC-S880

THE BASICS

ShutterButton

Power

Flash

Lens

LCD Monitor Zoom

Menu & Mode

4 Way Control

Set/Display

Battery & Memory Card

USB Connector

The labels on these images are referred to throughout this document. Please take a moment and familiarize yourself with the parts of the camera.

GETTING STARTED

To change the batteries OR To insert the memory card (allows more storage for saving pictures): Carefully open the door on the

bottom of the camera Pay close attention to the direction you

are inserting both the batteries and/or the memory card

For taking pictures, be sure that the memory card is not in the lock position

POINT AND SHOOT

1. Turn on the camera (press the Power button 1 time)2. Choose your mode

Press the mode button to choose: Capture (still pictures), Video, or Playback

3. Frame your picture using the following features: Zoom (zoom in or out with the zoom button) 4 Way Control Settings

Up button: focus Right button: flash Left button: backlight/exposure

4. Hold the shutter button until the picture takes5. The picture will briefly preview on the LCD display

To review pictures press the Mode button until the playback mode is displayed and use the right button to scroll through the taken pictures

MAKE YOUR PICTURES BETTERADVANCED SETTINGS

Press the Set/Display Button to use the following features:

Set Button Features: Scene: There are several scenes you can choose

from to make your picture better including portrait, landscape, sports, and text to name a few Take several different pictures using all of these features

to test the differences Panorama

You can take a series of shots and put them together on the computer with this feature

Anti-Shake This helps to minimize hand shaking in the picture taking

(I would recommend it with this camera since it is easy to come out with fuzzy pictures)

MORE ADVANCED FEATURES

Press the Menu Button and scroll through the menu options for these highlighted features:

Note: The default settings typically have the best balance of quality and storage capacity. The higher the quality of the picture, the less storage capacity you will have.

Menu Button Features: Size: Setting ranging from 8M (the most pixels)

to 0.3M (the least pixels) Quality: Fine, Normal, Economy Color: Normal, Vivid, Sepia, B/W Sharpness: Hard, Normal, Soft

Only the more popular options are highlighted here, there are other options under Menu that you may choose to experiment with.

TRANSFERRING FILES TO THE COMPUTER(NO SPECIAL SOFTWARE REQUIRED FOR THIS PROCESS!)

1. Connect one end of the USB cable to your computer and the other to the camera

On the camera:2. Turn on the camera3. If the USB screen does not display

automatically press the Set/Display Button4. Press Set on the camera

On the computer:5. On the computer double-click the My Computer Icon6. Double-click Removable Disk7. Double-click the DCIM folder8. Double-click to open the 100SANPH folder9. Copy and paste the pictures from the folder to the

location you would like the pictures to be saved10. Delete the pictures in Removable Disk folder

TROUBLESHOOTING Camera will not turn on

Batteries are not loaded correctly, check battery position Batteries are dead, replace batteries

Camera will not take pictures Be sure you are pressing the Shutter Button all the way down Be sure that the memory (internal or external) is not full The flash is charging, wait until the status LED stops blinking Make sure the memory card is not locked (see Slide 3)

Camera will not focus The lens is dirty, gently clean the lens The distance to the subject is too small, get further away

Files cannot be deleted Be sure both the file and the memory card are not write protected or

locked Cannot download images

Be sure you have enough disk space on the computer to download new images

Be sure the camera is on (if it will not turn on see the tip and solutions above)

SOURCES

Photo of camera http://www.pacificgeek.com/productimages/xl/VPC-S880P-R-3.jpg

Manual drawings taken from Sanyo Instruction Manual pages: EN-11, EN-12, EN-15, EN-34

Laser Dogs www.ihasahotdog.com Camera Man http://

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Toy Camera http://figgardenbookstore.com/images/camera.jpg

Troubleshooting Cat http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FzLB7mNEfYw/SL0sKUyzy2I/AAAAAAAACSQ/NTxcGUHufEQ/s320/funny-pictures-cat-is-troubleshooting-your-troubles.jpg