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Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-F1 [12/128] System requirements

12 Before you begin

System requirements

Your PC and system software must meet the

following minimum requirements to use this product:

• IBM PC/AT or compatible

– CPU: 80386SX 66MHz and above

– RAM: 16MB or more

• OS: Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows 95

• Hard disk space: 40MB or more depending on the

size and number of images you store.

• A color monitor with a video board or video driver

to display 640 × 480 pixels and 256 colors or better.

(A video board with 16,770,000 colors is

recommended.)

• CD-ROM drive

• RS-232C port (serial speed selectable among

9600bps/19200bps/38400bps) or infrared port

Note

Depending on the PC, the

selectable serial speeds

(bps) are limited.

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For the latest information on this product for windows refer to the readme txt file on the supplied cd rom for macintosh refer to the readme file on the supplied cd rom 1
Operating instructions 1
Pc connecting kit 1
For the latest information 2
Notice for users 2
User registration 2
About this manual 3
For macintos 3
For windows 3
From page 7 3
From page 77 3
Before you begin 4
For windows 4
From page 7 4
Others 4
Setting up 4
Sony digital still camera album utility 4
Sony dsc f1 twain 1 4
Table of contents 4
Before you begin 5
Capturing an image 5
Editing an image 5
For macintosh 5
From page 77 5
Others 5
Setting up 5
Sony digital still camera album utility 5
Sony digital still camera plug in 5
Using the plug in 5
Getting started 6
The items used in this product are supplied in the digital still camera dsc f1 package together with the other supplied accessories unpack the package and pick up the following items 6
For windows 7
Features 8
Album format when the digital still camera images are copied onto the hard disk or other storage device they are stored in the original filing system shown below which is called the album format the album format enables saving an image in a small file size without degrading its picture quality since the album format is the original filing system you cannot open an album format file with other applications 9
Before you begin 9
Image filing system of the album utility 9
The sony digital still camera album utility handles the images in a unique album filing system album format you can also handle the images as standard file formats such as bmp tiff or jpeg 9
Features 10
Before you begin 11
Operation flow chart 11
Sony digital still camera album utility 11
Sony dsc f1 twain 1 11
System requirements 12
Before using this software to capture the digital still camera images onto your pc the camera and your pc should be properly connected and the necessary software modules should be correctly installed in your pc as illustrated below there are two options for connecting the digital still camera with your pc determine which option you use and follow the necessary steps 13
Connecting via cable 13
Connecting via infrared port 13
Determining how to connect the digital still camera 13
Follow the steps explained in connecting via cable page 14 13
Follow the steps explained in connecting via infrared port page 18 13
Setting up 13
Use the connecting cable supplied to connect the digital i o port of the digital still camera with the serial port of your pc 13
Use the infrared ports to transfer the images between the digital still camera and the pc 13
Connecting via cable 14
Installing sony digital still camera album utility and sony dsc f1 twain 1 14
Setting up 15
Close all the windows of sony digital still camera album utility being displayed on the pc monitor 16
Connecting the digital still camera 16
Connecting via cable 16
To resume data transmission in case the data transmission is interrupted and the digital still camera becomes disabled resume the transmission as follows 16
Transmit the data again 16
Turn the power function dial of the digital still camera to off 16
Turn the power function dial to play 16
Use the supplied connecting cable to connect the serial port on your pc and the digital i o port on the digital still camera dsc f1 16
Before you start data communications between the pc and the digital still camera set up the digital still camera as follows for the details refer to the instruction manuals of the digital still camera dsc f1 17
Set the power function dial to play 17
Setting up 17
Setting up the digital still camera 17
The digital still camera is ready for communication via cable 17
To activate the data transmission via the connecting cable set the menu as follows 17
Connecting via infrared port 18
Installing sony digital still camera album utility and sony dsc f1 twain 1 18
Installing microsoft windows 95 infrared communications driver 19
Setting up 19
Connecting via infrared port 20
Connecting the digital still camera 21
Select add remove programs in the control panel 21
Select infrared support for windows 95 version 2 in the add remove programs properties and double click add remove 21
Setting up 21
Uninstalling the software when the software becomes unnecessary remove all the software files from your hard disk as follows 21
Ë check the status tag of the infrared monitor in the control panel to see if the infrared device is detected 21
Ë place the infrared port located on the front panel of the digital still camera dsc f1 and that of your pc face to face so that you can transmit image data from the camera to the pc or vice versa controllable area is about 4 12 inches 10 30 cm in terms of straight line distance and 15 degrees right left up and down each in terms of conical angle 21
Ë the figure above is an example of connecting the digital still camera with a pc with the built in infrared communications device you can also use a pc equipped with an infrared adapter 21
Connecting via infrared port 22
Setting up the digital still camera 22
Capturing an image 23
Starting sony digital still camera album utility 23
Using windows 3 23
Using windows 95 23
About the menus 24
File menu 24
The sony digital still camera album utility consists of the following menus for frequently used menu items you can use the tool bar buttons page 29 24
Camera menu 25
Capturing an image 25
Edit menu 25
About the menus 26
Display menu 26
Image menu when an image is displayed 26
Adjusting the colors and the contrast of the monitor 27
Capturing an image 27
Options menu 27
About the menus 28
Help menu 28
Keyboard shortcuts 28
The descriptions including ctrl c shift f5 and alt f4 next to the file menu stand for keyboard shortcuts means pressing the two buttons at the same time and f means a function key 28
Window menu 28
Capturing an image 29
The tool bar shortcuts to frequently used menu items 29
Using the tool bar 29
Changing system settings 30
Click ok 30
Select settings in the option menu 30
Set the program settings according to your pc and monitor 30
Start the sony digital still camera album utility 30
The settings are changed 30
The settings dialog box appears set the items 30
Capturing an image 31
Opening the camera images 31
Opening the image from the image list window 31
Click the thumbnail s you want to open the selected thumbnail frame becomes yellow and select open selected album image in the file menu or double click the image or click 32
On the tool bar 32
Opening the camera images 32
The following icons on an image stand for 32
The selected images are displayed in full size 32
Capturing an image 33
Opening the camera images 34
Opening the image directly 34
Capturing an image 35
Opening and saving the camera images 35
Saving the camera images in album 35
Creating a new album 36
Creating a new album folder 36
Each image is stored in the specified album with a file name psn number 36
In the album list box albums contained in the selected album folder are listed each album folder can store the maximum of 30 albums including no more than one empty album therefore you can add only one new album namely an empty album without album cover thumbnail to create the new album pic number click new under the list box 36
In the folder list box album folders contained in the dscalbum folder of the root directory are listed with the album caption to add a new album folder to the list click new under the list box in the album title dialog box input the new folder name and click ok 36
Saving the camera images in album 36
Select the destination album folder and album to which the images are to be saved and click ok 36
Capturing an image 37
Saving all the camera images without opening them 37
Click the option button of selected images in the selection block 38
Each image is stored in the specified album with a file name psn number 38
On the tool bar 38
Saving the camera images in album 38
Saving the selected camera images without opening them 38
Select save to album in the camera menu or click 38
Select the destination album folder and album to which the images are saved and click ok 38
Select the images to be saved 38
The following dialog box appears 38
Capturing an image 39
Creating a new album 39
Creating a new album folder 39
Each image is stored in the specified album with a file name psn number 39
In the album list box albums contained in the selected album folder are listed each album folder can store the maximum of 30 albums including no more than one empty album therefore you can add only one new album namely an empty album without album cover thumbnail to create the new album pic number click new under the list box 39
In the folder list box album folders contained in the dscalbum folder of the root directory are listed with the albums folder caption to add a new albums folder to the list click new under the list box in the album title dialog box input the new folder name and click ok 39
Select the destination album folder and album to which the images are saved and click ok 39
Opening and saving the camera images 40
Saving the camera images as another file format 40
Capturing an image 41
Saving the camera images as another file format 42
Capturing an image 43
Saving all the camera images without opening them 43
Saving the camera images as another file format 44
Capturing an image 45
Click the option button of selected images in the selection block 45
On the tool bar 45
Saving the selected camera images without opening them 45
Select export camera images in the camera menu or click 45
Select the images to be saved 45
The following dialog box appears 45
Saving the camera images as another file format 46
Capturing an image 47
Click the desired album folder in the folder list box and click ok 47
On the tool bar 47
Opening an album of the hard disk 47
Select open folder in the file menu or click 47
The album thumbnails of the selected album folder are displayed 47
The following dialog box appears 47
You can open the image from the album folder stored from the digital still camera onto the hard disk in the album format 47
Click the image s you want to open the selected image frame becomes yellow and select open selected album image in the file menu or double click the image or click 48
Double click the desired album thumbnail 48
For various ways to select images in the image list refer to page 33 the selected images are displayed in full size 48
On the tool bar 48
Opening an album of the hard disk 48
The following icons on an image stand for 48
The image list of the selected album appears 48
Capturing an image 49
Opening an image file directly 50
Capturing an image 51
Opening an image file directly 52
Capturing an image 53
Capturing an image from twain device 53
Follow the users manual of the twain device to acquire an image 53
Select acquire in the file menu 53
Select select source in the file menu 53
Select the desired device and click select 53
The select source dialog box appears 53
You can capture an image from a device that supports twain protocol 53
Changing the album front cover 54
Changing the caption 55
Click the caption box underneath the image thumbnail whose caption you want to change 55
Display the image list of a camera or the hard disk 55
Editing an image 55
See opening the camera images page 31 or opening an album of the hard disk page 47 for details 55
The caption is changed 55
The image caption dialog box appears 55
The procedure below describes how to change the image comment you can change the album comment in the same way 55
Type the caption in the dialog box and click ok 55
You can change the comment of albums or images 55
Display the image list stored in the hard disk 56
Drag the desired image 56
Drop the image 56
Move to the position where you want to drop the image 56
Moves according to the dragging direction according to the pointer 56
Moving albums or images drag and drop 56
See opening an album of the hard disk page 47 for details 56
The drag pointer 56
The image is moved to the position pushing forward or backward the original image and the other images 56
The procedure below describes how to move an image you can move an album in the same way 56
You can change the position of an album in the album list or an image in the image list stored in the hard disk 56
Copying an image to another album 57
Editing an image 57
Copying an image to another album 58
Drag the desired image 58
Move the dragging pointer 58
The image is copied as the last image of the destination album 58
To the album to which you want to copy the image then drop the image 58
Copying with the file menu 59
Editing an image 59
Deleting images or albums 60
Editing an image 61
Searching for images 61
Display the window you want to print 62
Printing images 62
Select print setup in the file menu 62
The print setup dialog box appears set each item according to your printer 62
Turn on the power of the printer and make it ready for printing 62
You can print an album list an image list or an image 62
Click ok 63
Editing an image 63
In the tool bar 63
Printing starts up 63
Select print in the file menu or click 63
Set the following 63
The print dialog box appears 63
Changing the image display size 64
Diminishing an image 64
Display the image of a camera or hard disk which you want to change the display size see opening the camera images page 31 or opening an album of the hard disk page 47 for details 64
Enlarging an image 64
In the tool bar the display size of the image is enlarged 64
In the tool bar the display size of the image is reduced 64
Select zoom in in the image menu or click 64
Select zoom out in the image menu or click 64
You can enlarge zoom in and reduce zoom out an image displayed on the monitor 64
Editing an image 65
Rotating an image 65
Click ok to close the window 66
Display the image or select the image in the image list whose information you want to review 66
In the tool bar 66
Review the settings when the image is recorded 66
Reviewing the image information 66
See opening the camera images page 31 or opening an album of the hard disk page 47 for details 66
Select information in the image menu or click 66
The following dialog box appears 66
You can view the image information and revise some of the items 66
Display the image to be transfer to the camera 67
Editing an image 67
In the tool bar the edit frame appears 67
In the tool bar the image is resized to 640 480 pixels skip the steps 3 and 4 67
Move the edit frame to assign the area to be transferred 67
Select best fit 640 480 in the image menu or click 67
Select show edit frame or click 67
To adjust the frame size drag its corner to move the frame itself drag somewhere on the frame except for corners 67
To adjust the image to fit 640 480 pixels 67
Transferring an image to the camera 67
You can transfer a bmp tiff jpeg or pmp image file to the camera since the image being stored in the camera is limited to 640 480 pixels a larger image should be diminished or trimmed 67
Transferring an image to the camera 68
Before you begin do the necessary preparations as described in pages 13 through 22 start the application and display its main menu window quit the sony digital still camera album utility if it has been started you cannot start the sony dsc f1 twain 1 while the sony digital still camera album utility is accessing the camera 69
By switching the data source driver to sony dsc f1 twain 1 you can transfer a camera image directly to an application which supports the twain protocol 69
Select acquire in the file menu the file menu name differs depending on the application 69
Select select source in the file menu the file menu name differs depending on the application 69
Select sony dsc f1 twain 1 and click select 69
Sony dsc f1 twain 1 using the twain data source 69
The select source dialog box appears 69
The sony dsc f1 twain 1 main menu window appears 69
Transferring camera images to an application which supports the twain protocol 69
Using the twain data source 69
Transferring a camera image to an application which supports the twain protocol 70
Others 71
Troubleshooting 71
Troubleshooting 72
Others 73
Others 75
For macintosh 77
Features 78
Before you begin 79
Image filing system of the album utility 79
Features 80
Operation flow chart 80
Sony digital still camera album utility 80
Sony digital still camera plug in 80
Before you begin 81
System requirements 81
Step 1 installing the software 82
Drag the sony digital still camera plug in icon 83
Install the sony digital still camera plug in 83
Onto the plug in folder 83
Setting up 83
With the sony digital still camera plug in copied you can capture images from the sony digital still camera dsc f1 with an application supporting the adobe photoshop plug in 83
Close all the windows of sony digital still camera album utility being displayed on the macintosh monitor 84
Step 2 connecting the digital still camera 84
To resume data transmission in case the data transmission is interrupted and the digital still camera becomes disabled resume the transmission as follows 84
Transmit the data again 84
Turn the power function dial of the digital still camera to off 84
Turn the power function dial to play 84
Use the supplied connecting cable to the modem printer port via the cable adapter to the digital i o port on the digital still camera dsc f1 for a macintosh with the built in modem use the printer port 84
Before you start data communications between the pc and the digital still camera set up the digital still camera as follows for the details refer to the instruction manuals of the digital still camera dsc f1 85
Set the power function dial to play 85
Setting up 85
Step 3 setting up the digital still camera 85
The digital still camera is ready for communication via cable 85
To activate the data transmission via the connecting cable set the menu as follows 85
Quitting the sony digital still camera album utility 86
Starting sony digital still camera album utility 86
About the menus 87
Capturing an image 87
File menu 87
Sony digital still camera album utility consists of the following menus you can also use the tool bar icons to proceed with part of the menu operations page 91 87
About the menus 88
Camera menu 88
Edit menu 88
Capturing an image 89
Display menu 89
Image menu 89
Window menu 89
About the menus 90
Keyboard shortcuts 90
Option menu 90
The key descriptions next to the file menu stand for keyboard shortcuts 90
Capturing an image 91
The tool bar shortcuts to frequently used menu items 91
Using the tool bar 91
When an image is displayed 91
When an image list is displayed 91
Setting the preferences 92
Capturing an image 93
Opening the camera images 94
Opening the image from the image list window 94
Capturing an image 95
Click the image s you want to open the selected image frame becomes yellow and select open selected image in the file menu or double click the image 95
The selected images are displayed in full size 95
Opening the camera images 96
Capturing an image 97
Opening the image directly 97
Opening and saving the camera images 98
Saving the camera images in album 98
Capturing an image 99
Select save in album in the file menu 99
Select the destination album folder and click select 99
Stopping saving midway press the and keys together 99
The following window appears 99
The selected camera images are saved in the destination album folder 99
Saving all the camera images without opening them 100
Saving the camera images in album 100
Select all images and click ok 100
Select save in album in the camera menu 100
Select the destination album folder and click select 100
Stopping saving midway press the and keys together 100
The following window appears 100
The selected camera images are saved in the destination album folder with a file name image serial number 100
Capturing an image 101
Saving the selected camera images without opening them 101
Click ok 102
Saving the camera images in album 102
Select the destination album folder and click select 102
Stopping saving midway press the and keys together 102
The following window appears 102
The selected camera images are saved in the destination album folder with a file name image serial number 102
Capturing an image 103
Opening and saving the camera images 103
Saving the camera images as another file type 103
Saving in jpeg file type when you select jpeg file type the window to define the image quality compression ratio appears 104
Saving the camera images as another file type 104
Select save as file in the file menu 104
Select the destination folder and file type in which the images are to be saved and click select 104
Stopping saving midway press the and keys together 104
The following window appears 104
The selected camera images are saved in the destination album folder as a specified file type with a name image serial number 104
Usually the higher image quality you select the larger file size with the lower compression ratio you get select the image quality option and click ok 104
Capturing an image 105
Saving all the camera images without opening them 105
Select all images and click ok 105
Select save as file in the camera menu 105
Select the destination folder and file type in which the images are to be saved and click select 105
Stopping saving midway press the and keys together 105
The following window appears 105
The selected camera images are saved in the destination album folder as a specified file type with a name image serial number 105
Saving the camera images as another file type 106
Saving the selected camera images without opening them 106
Capturing an image 107
Click ok 107
Input the date day month year all the images recorded on the specified date are saved 107
Select the destination folder and file type in which the images are to be saved and click select 107
Stopping saving midway press the and keys together 107
The following window appears 107
The selected camera images are saved in the destination album folder as a specified file type with a name image serial number 107
Ì recorded date 107
Saving the camera images as another file type 108
Capturing an image 109
Click the desired album folder and click select 109
Opening an album of the hard disk 109
Select open album in the file menu 109
Select the image s you want to open 109
The following dialog box appears 109
The frame of the selected image becomes yellow for various ways to select images in the image list refer to page 96 109
The image list of the selected album appears 109
You can open the image from the album folder stored from the digital still camera onto the hard disk in the album format 109
Opening an album of the hard disk 110
Capturing an image 111
Opening an image file directly 111
Opening an image file directly 112
Saving in jpeg file type when you select jpeg file type the window to define the image quality compression ratio appears 112
Saving the opened image as another file format 112
Saving the opened image in album you can save the image on the hard disk in an album in the same way as the camera images refer to opening and saving the camera images of the saving the camera images in album on page 98 112
Select save as in the file menu 112
Select the destination folder in which the images are to be saved and file name click ok 112
The following dialog box appears 112
The image is saved in the destination folder in the selected file format 112
Usually the higher image quality you select the larger file size with the lower compression ratio you get select the image quality option and click ok 112
Changing the comment 113
Click the comment box of the image whose comment you want to change 113
Display the image list window of a camera or hard disk 113
Editing an image 113
Press the enter or return key 113
See opening the camera images page 94 or opening an album of the hard disk page 109 for details 113
Sony digital still camera album utility editing an image 113
The comment box is highlighted 113
The comment is changed 113
Type the comment in the comment box 113
You can change the comment of images 113
Renaming the files in the finder 114
Sorting the images 114
Sorting the images by renaming and copying to a new album 114
Copying an image to another album 115
Editing an image 115
Deleting images 116
Click ok 117
Display the full sized image to be printed 117
Editing an image 117
Printing images 117
See opening the camera images page 94 or opening an album of the hard disk page 109 for details 117
Select print setup in the file menu 117
The following window appears set each item according to your printer 117
Turn on the power of the printer and select the printer with the chooser 117
You can print a full sized image the explanations here are based on the case when the sony digital color printer dpp m55 is used when using a different printer refer to the manual of your printer 117
Click ok 118
Printing images 118
Printing starts up 118
Select print in the file menu 118
Set the necessary items for printing 118
The following window appears 118
Changing the image display size 119
Editing an image 119
Rotating an image 120
Click ok to close the window 121
Display the full sized image whose information you want to review 121
Editing an image 121
In the tool bar 121
Review or revise the settings 121
Reviewing the image information 121
See opening the camera images page 94 or opening an album of the hard disk page 109 for details 121
Select image information in the option menu or click 121
The following window appears 121
You can review settings when the image is recorded in the image information window you can also set the protection revise the edited date or input comments 121
Transferring an image to the camera 122
Transferring camera images to your application 123
Using the plug in 123
Depending on the application you can transfer multiple images at a time when you transfer multiple images press and hold down the shift key as you click the desired images 124
Or double click one of the selected images 124
Select the image to be transferred 124
The selected image is or images are transferred to the application 124
To transfer other images repeat steps 2 and 4 124
Transferring camera images to your application 124
Using the tool bar 124
Others 125
Troubleshooting 125
Troubleshooting 126
W x y z 127

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-F1 [12/128] System requirements

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