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Operating Instructions
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Meade 8 x 42 2.0D CaptureView
Integrated Binocular and Digital Camera
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Fig. 1: Top View 1. Diopter Scale (on underside of right eyepiece) 2. SD Card Port 3. Eyepiece 4. Menu Button j 5. Shutter Button i 6. Left Button 7. Right Button 8. LCD Screen 9. Objective Lens 10. Camera Lens (not visible, see Fig. 2) 11. Barrel 12. USB Port g h 13. Battery 1! Compartment Lid (see Fig. 2) 14. Focus knob (not visible, see Fig. 2) e f 1@ c d b Page 2
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Fig. 2: Bottom View 1. Diopter Scale 1$ 10. Camera Lens (not visible) 13. Battery 1# Compartment Lid (squeeze and pull back to remove) 14. Focus knob b 1) ® WARNING! Never use a Meade binocular to look at the Sun! Looking at or near the Sun will cause instant and irreversible damage to your eye. Eye damage is often painless, so there is no warning to the observer that damage has occurred until it is too late. Do not point the binocular at or near the Sun. Children should always have adult
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I. Introduction Meade CaptureView is an 8 x 42mm full-featured binocular integrated with a digital camera that requires no film to take pictures or movies. For best results, please follow these operating instructions to capture and download pictures. • Fully functional binoculars. • Take pictures and movies, and view them on your PC. • Transfer pictures and movies to your PC for easy printing, editing, enhancing, and manipulating. • E-mail pictures to your friends and family. • You can view pic
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II. How to Use Your Binocular To enhance your viewing enjoyment, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with your new binocular: Adjustment of Eye Relief for Eyeglass Wearers For best results when viewing an object while wearing eyeglasses, fold down the rubber eyecups and place them against your glasses. Adjusting the Eyepieces The distance between your eyes is usually different than the distance between another person’s eyes. This distance is known as the interpupillary distance, or IPD
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III. How To Use Your Camera CaptureView performs best under good lighting conditions. It takes some practice to get used to high-magnification photography. Take some time to practice capturing still pictures and movies. Depending on the available light and your distance from the object, captured images may not appear as bright or as centered as when viewed through the binoculars. Note also that CaptureView has a fixed focus (you cannot focus manually) and takes focused pictures even if the image
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III. How To Use Your Camera Camera Modes CaptureView provides the following modes: Menu, Preview (Still, Movie and Flashback), and Playback. Press the Menu button to enter the Menu mode, which displays the menu and menu options. Use the Menu mode to select and activate CaptureView’s many features. See MENUS, pages 11-14, for more information. When you first turn on the camera or when you exit the Menu mode, the Preview mode is operational and the LCD screen displays a live image. The Preview m
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III. How To Use Your Camera Using the Buttons and Moving through the menus • Press and hold the Menu button for 3 to 5 seconds to turn on the camera. • Press the Menu button to display the menus. • Use the Right and Left buttons to move the red selection box right or left over menus or menu options. • When the box is over a menu or menu option you wish to select, press the Menu button. Select “Back” from a menu and press the Menu button to go back to the last displayed menu. • Press the Shut
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III. How To Use Your Camera Taking Pictures 1.Lift up the LCD (8, Fig. 1) to an upright position. Press and hold the Menu button (4, Fig. 1) for 3 to 5 seconds to turn on the camera. Point the binoculars and you will see images appear on the LCD. 2.Press the Menu button again and the first menu screen displays on the LCD. Use the Right or Left buttons (6 or 7, Fig. 1) to move the red selection box over the Resolution menu (the "2M" icon) and press the Menu button to display the Resolution menu.
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III. How To Use Your Camera To playback your captured images: 7. To see the image(s) that you have captured, move the selection box to the Playback menu (the right pointing triangle icon) and press the menu button. The last image you captured displays on the LCD screen. Use the right and left buttons to scroll through your captured images or movies (each movie counts as one item). A counter appears at the upper left. If the counter reads, 3/5, for example, it means the third of five items. 8.Se
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IV. Menus Main Menu Still Mode. Select to take still images. Remember to check your resolution setting before taking a still image. Movie Mode. Select the Movie icon from the Main menu to take movies. This puts you into the Preview mode. Then just press the Shutter Button to record and press again to stop recording. You can watch the movie using the Playback button. Each movie you record counts as one "item" in the Playback mode. Page 11
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IV. Menus Main Menu {continued} The FlashBack feature records a movie for a user-selected period of time (5, 10, 15 or 20 seconds). You will select the Flashback menu icon and press the Menu button to activate recording. You can record for as long as you like, but you will only save a recording for the period of time you have selected. For example, if you chose 10 seconds, only the last ten seconds of the recording will remain in memory and be saved—the rest of the recording is discarded. To s
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IV. Menus Main Menu {continued} Playback Mode. Press once to review still images or movies captured in the Preview mode. Press the Right or Left Arrow buttons to scroll through the items (still pictures or movies) you have captured. While in Playback mode, press the Menu button once to displays Playback setting submenus: Delete Last Image, Delete All Images, and Format. Select “Back” to exit to Preview mode. Erasing/Deleting Pictures Delete last image. Select the "Delete Last Image" menu to er
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IV. Menus Main Menu {continued} Exposure Auto. Select this setting to allow CaptureView to automatically select dark-light exposure of the image. Normally, you will use this setting. Backlight. Select this setting to manually set the exposure using the Right and Left buttons. Use this feature only in the most extreme lighting situations. Page 14
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IV. Menus Settings Settings. Select this icon to display the Settings submenus: Time and Date, Beep, Info Display, Date Stamp, Flicker, Flashback Period and Default. Settings Menu Time and Date. Select this menu to set the current time and date. Use the right and left arrow keys to scroll through the settings on each line of the clock menu. Press the Menu button once the desired setting is displayed. This will select the setting and move you to the next line. When you press the Menu button in th
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IV. Menus Other LCD Icons Mass storage. Appears on LCD while you are downloading pictures or movies to a PC. Card Present. Displays when the SD card is in the camera. To load or eject memory card: Press the card in and release when you hear a click. The card may be read by any flash card reader. By using a flash card reader, you can also download your images to a Macintosh or Unix system. When using a flash card reader, the flash card looks like a hard drive to your computer. Note: You cannot l
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V. System Requirements 1. Windows 98/Win M/Win 2000/Win XP 2. 200MHz (or equivalent) processor or faster. 3. 64MB of RAM free over System requirements 4. Video (VGA) card with 2MB of RAM for minimum 16-bit (High Color) display. 5. 4x CD-ROM drive. 6. USB port (1.1). 7. 600MB of free hard drive space. If you have questions regarding your PC system specifications, please contact your PC manufacturer. Page 17
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VI. Downloading and Software Installation No driver is necessary for downloading your pictures or movies unless you are using Windows 98. Just attach one end of the USB cable to the camera's USB port (2, Fig. 2) and the other end to your PC's USB port. Refer to Fig. 3. Your PC considers the camera as a mass storage device and displays it like a hard drive. You can then copy your still pictures or movies to your computer or even copy files to the flash card on your camera. Note: You may have to c
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VI. Downloading and Software Installation For WinXp/2000/ME Users 1.Using the provided USB cable, plug the one end of the cable into the camera's USB port and the other end into your PC's USB port. Refer to Fig. 3. 2.CaptureView automatically installs drivers on your PC (there is no need for external drivers). 3.After setup is complete, using Windows Explorer, you can browse the camera's memory as if it were a hard drive. 4.If CaptureView does not appear in Windows Explorer, it might be using a
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VI. Downloading and Software Installation For Macintosh and Unix Users 1.Use a flash card reader to download your images to a Macintosh or Unix system (Note: You cannot load to a Mac or Unix system using the camera's USB port—you must use a flash card reader). When using a flash card reader, the flash card looks like a hard drive to your computer. Other Software The CD ROM also includes other software programs by Ulead that will assist you in editing your images, allow you to transfer images
