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16
Setting up
Notes
• Turn off the power on
your PC and Digital
Still Camera before
connection.
• Do not turn off the
power of the camera
nor disconnect the
cable during
transmitting the data,
which may cause a
transmission failure.
• Use only the supplied
connecting cable.
Other brands of cables
may cause
malfunctions.
• The supplied
connecting cable is for
the Sony Digital Still
Camera DSC-F1 only.
It cannot be used to
connect other cameras.
• Insert the connecting
cable carefully into the
port, making sure that
the port goes in straight
and is firmly seated.
When inserting the
cable into the Digital
I/O port of the Digital
Still Camera, match the
¢ mark of the cable
with that of the port.
• Keep metal objects
away from the
connector pins to avoid
short circuits.
• We suggest you use the
Digital Still Camera
with the AC power
adapter.
2 Connecting the Digital Still Camera
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.
To resume data transmission
In case the data transmission is interrupted (and the
Digital Still Camera becomes disabled), resume the
transmission as follows :
1 Close all the windows of “Sony Digital Still
Camera Album Utility” being displayed on the PC
monitor.
2 Turn the POWER/Function dial of the Digital Still
Camera to “OFF.”
3 Turn the POWER/Function dial to “PLAY.”
4 Transmit the data again.
Connecting cable
(supplied)
to DIGITAL
I/O port
Digital Still
Camera
DSC-F1
to serial port
Your PC
Connecting via cable
Содержание
- 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
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