BenQ DC 1300 User manual

BENQ Digital Camera 1300
Electronic User’s Manual
Introduction to Benq Digital Camera 1300 1
Touring Your Camera 2
Preparing the Camera for Using 5
Installing batteries and strap 5
Installing Digital Camera Software 6
Using Your Camera 8
The digital camera mode 8
Taking pictures 8
Managing photos in camera 11
The continuous shooting mode 13
The video camera mode 14
The sound recording mode 15
The PC camera mode 16
Options 18
Troubleshooting Tips 25
Service Information 26

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Taking care of your camera
• Do not use your camera over the following environmental range: temperature: O C to 40 C, relative humidity: 45% ~ 85%.
• Do not use or store your camera in environments listed below:
Direct sunlight
High humidity and dusty places.
Next to the air conditioner, electric heater or the other heat sources.
In a closed car that is directly under the sun.
Avoid shaky places.
• If your camera becomes wet, wipe it with dry cloth as soon as possible.
• Salt of seawater may cause severe camera damage.
• Do not use organic solvents, such as alcohol, etc., to clean your camera.
• If the lens or viewfinder is dirty, please use the lens brush or soft cloth to clean the lens. Do not touch the lens with your fingers.
• To prevent electrical shock, do not attempt to disassemble or repair your camera by yourself.
• Water may cause a fire or electric shock. Therefore, please store your camera in a dry place.
• Do not use your camera outdoors when it is raining or snowing.
• Do not use your camera in the water.
• If the foreign substance or water gets in your camera, please tum the power off immediately and disconnect the batteries and the transformer.
Remove the foreign substance or water, and send it to the maintenance center.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Benq Digital Camera 1300 .....................................1
2. Touring Your Camera ........................................................................2
3. Preparing the Camera for Using ......................................................5
3.1. Installing batteries and strap ....................................................................... 5
3.2. Installing Digital Camera Software ............................................................. 6
4. Using Your Camera ............................................................................8
4.1. The digital camera mode ............................................................................. 8
4.1.1. Taking pictures ........................................................................................................... 8
4.1.3. Managing photos in camera ..................................................................................... 11
4.2. The continuous shooting mode ..................................................................13
4.3. The video camera mode ..............................................................................14
4.4. The sound recording mode .........................................................................15
4.5. The PC camera mode ..................................................................................16
4.5.1. Using Digital Camera as a PC camera .................................................................. 16
4.5.2. The function of the DC 1300 monitor frame ...................................................... 17
4.6. Options ..........................................................................................................18

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5. Troubleshooting Tips .......................................................................25
6. Service Information ..........................................................................26

1. Introduction to Benq Digital Camera 1300
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1. Introduction to Benq Digital Camera 1300
Benq Digital Camera 1300 is equipped with the following features:
• Small size for easy carriage and convenience of use
• High resolution: 1280 x 1024 pixels in digital camera mode
• Onboard 16 MB memory
• Mode selectable flash light
• Built-in self-timer
• Fixed focus : 40 cm for macro mode, and 1.5 m to infinity from camera for normal mode
• Electronic shutter
• Easy recognizable LCD screen for camera and image handling
• USB interface for easy and quick connection to PC
• Automatic power-off system
• 5 operation modes:
Digital camera mode for taking photos
PC camera mode for using the camera as an image capturing device for PC
Video camera mode for capturing motion clips with a PC
Continuous shooting mode for taking photos continuously
Sound recording mode for recording sound

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2. Touring Your Camera
Viewfinder
Shutter
Flash light
Lens Macro switch
USB connection port
Front View
Busy indicator
Status display Power/ Mode button
Strap Eyelet
White Balance Mode/ + button
Pixel Selection/ _button
Rear View
Flash/ Enter button
Self-timer activation
indicator
Viewfinder

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Bottom View
Tripod set
Battery compartment
cover
Auto mode
(White Balance)
Image counter
Battery status
Erase Mode
The status display
PC Camera Mode
Sound Recording Mode
Video Camera Mode
Continuous Shooting Mode
Digital Camera Mode
Compression Selection Mode
(Fine/ Normal)
Resolution Selection Mode
(1280 X 1024)
(1024 X 768)
(640 X 480)
Self-timer Mode
Fluorescent Mode
Overcast ModeFlash Mode
Tungsten Light Mode
Daylight Mode

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3. Preparing the Camera for Using
3.1. Installing batteries and strap
Open the battery compartment cover and insert two AAA alkaline batteries into the compartment. Note the polarity of
the batteries when you install.
Refer to the illustration below to install the strap.
Now you are ready to use your camera!

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3.2. Installing Digital Camera Software
The CD that accompanies your camera contains the digital camera driver bundled with valuable image-editing software.
To install digital camera software:
Insert the utility CD into the CD-ROM drive. The software installation menu will appear automatically.
1. If the software installation menu does not automatically display, open Windows Explore and double-click
the “Autorun.exe” icon in the CD-ROM directory.
2. If your Operating System is Windows XP, please feel comfortable to continue the installation process
when the below dialog box appears on the screen. (In Windows 2000/NT, the same dialog box may also
occur. Please feel comfortable to continue the installation process.)

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Click “Camera Driver” on the menu. Follow the on-line instructions to complete the driver intallation.
You may be prompted to restart the computer at this point. Do not restart your computer until all the
software has been installed.
Click to install digital
camera driver
Click to install Video
Impression
Click to browse
User’s Manual
Click to install NetMeeting
Click to install Photo Base
Click to install Acrobat Reader
Click to close the menu
and exit
Click to install DirectX
8.1

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Click on other items on the menu to install the bundled application software.
A desktop shortcut of the program is automatically created after successful installation. Restart your computer when you
have finished installing all of the above software.
Software Description
DirectX 8.1 DirectX gives developers the tools to create amazing games for the
Windows operating system and allows users the multimedia power to
run the latest cutting-edge games.
Acrobat Reader Install this software program to open document files in .pdf format.
VideoImpression With VideoImpression you can edit and combine your video files. New
videos can be created using existing video, animation, and image files.
Quickly and easily create desktop video presentations for use at home,
business or on the internet.
PhotoBase You can use this application program to easily manage your pictures.
NetMeeting This software program allows you to use your digital camera as a
video camera for video conferencing.

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4. Using Your Camera
Benq Digital Camera 1300 provides 5 different operation modes: Digital camera mode, Continuous shooting mode, video
camera mode, Sound recording mode, PC camera mode. With these modes, you can not only use Digital Camera 1300 to
take photos, but capture and show images in various ways by connecting to your PC.
4.1. The digital camera mode
In digital camera mode, you can take photos, view and download them from your camera and save them as files.
4.1.1. Taking pictures
Press the POWER button for 3 seconds to turn on the power of the camera. The camera beeps once and enters camera
mode. The status of camera will appear on the status display.
: This icon indicates that the white balance value setting is in Auto mode. You can choose to change the white balance
setting. See “4.6.3. White Balance Setting” on page 21.

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: The counter that indicates the number of photos taken. You can choose to let the counter display in another way.
: Indicates the battery status. If the battery power becomes low, the battery icon will become empty.
: This icon indicates the DC 1300 is in digital camera mode. You can change the mode setting by pressing the
Power/ Mode button.
: This icon indicates the flash mode is set to flash off mode. You can change the flash mode setting by pressing the
Flash/ Enter button.
: This icon indicates the compression setting is set to “Fine”. You can change the compression setting by pressing the
Pix/ _button.
: This icon indicates the resolution setting is set to “1280 X 1024”. You can also change the resolution setting
by pressing the Pix/ _button.
Look through the viewfinder to determine the object to be taken. Make the object appear in the center of the viewfinder.
Make the object appear in the center of the
viewfinder.

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Press the shutter. The image will be taken with a beep sound and the BUSY indicator will flash, indicating that the camera is
saving the image to memory.
When the indicator becomes off, you are ready to take the next photo.
Note: Do not press the POWER button when the BUSY indicator flashes.
After the shutter is pressed, hold the camera still until the BUSY indicator becomes OFF to prevent
blurred images.
To save battery power, if the camera power is turned on and not used for 1 minutes, it will be turned
off automatically.
4.1.2. Turning off the camera
Press and hold the POWER button of the camera for 3 seconds. The camera beeps once and the power will be turned off.

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4.1.3. Managing photos in camera
4.1.3.1. Deleting the last photo taken
Press the “Power/ Mode” button 4 times. The icon will appear on the status display. It indicates the camera is in Erase
mode.
Press the “Flash/ Enter” button, the camera will beep once and the BUSY indicator will flash, then the last photo taken will
be deleted.
4.1.3.2. Deleting all photos
When in Erase mode, you can choose to delete the last photo or all the photos saved in the memory of camera by pressing
the “ WB/ +” button or “Pix/ _” button.

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After choosing to delete all the photos saved in camera memory, press the “Flash/ Enter” button. The camera will beep
once and the Busy indicator will flash, then all photos saved in camera memory will be deleted.
4.1.3.3. Downloading photos from camera
Turn on the power of the camera by pressing the “Power/Mode” button.
Refer to the illustration below to connect the camera to PC using the USB cable. When connected, the PC mode icon and
the number of images in camera memory will appear on the status display.
Then the system will transfer all the images from camera to PC automatically. The images will be downloaded to C drive
and saved in the file folder named “My Medias”. Everytime you connect the camera and PC for transferring images, the
system will set up a new folder in “My Medias” for downloading and saving these images. To change the transferring
settings, just right-click on the icon on Windows Taskbar and select “Setting” in the submenu which appears, then
you can reset the transferring settings.

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4.2. The continuous shooting mode
In continuous shooting mode, you can take 3 photos a time by simply pressing the shutter button once.
Taking pictures
Press the POWER button for 3 seconds to turn on the power of the camera. The camera beeps once and enters camera
mode.
Then press the “Power/ Mode” button 1 times. The icon will appear on the status display. It indicates the camera is in
continuous shooting mode. The status of camera will appear on the status display as follow shows.
After entering the continuous shooting mode, press the shutter button once and the camera will capture 3 photos
continuously. Every photo will be taken in the time sequence by every 0.6 second.

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4.3. The video camera mode
In video camera mode, you can shoot video by pressing the shutter button.
Shoot videos
Press the POWER button for 3 seconds to turn on the power of the camera. The camera beeps once and enters camera
mode.
Then press the “Power/ Mode” button 2 times. The icon will appear on the status display. It indicates the camera is in
video camera mode. The status of camera will appear on the status display as follow shows.
After entering the video camera mode, press the shutter button and the camera starts to shoot video. It will show “REC”
on the status display at the same time and the Busy indicator will also keep on flashing. These activation will keep on until
you stop shooting. Press the shutter button again to stop shooting video.
In this mode, you can shoot video up to 90 seconds. The video recorded will be saved in camera memory as “AVI” file
format.

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4.4. The sound recording mode
In sound recording mode, you can record sounds by pressing the shutter button.
Record sounds
Press the POWER button for 3 seconds to turn on the power of the camera. The camera beeps once and enters camera
mode.
Then press the “Power/ Mode” button 3 times. The icon will appear on the status display. It indicates the camera is in
sound recording mode. The status of camera will appear on the status display as follow shows.
After entering the sound recording mode, press the shutter button and the camera starts to record sounds. It will show
“REC” on the status display at the same time and the Busy indicator will also keep on flashing. These activation will keep on
until you stop shooting. Press the shutter button again to stop recording sounds.
In this mode, you can record sounds up to 9 minutes. The sounds recorded will be saved in camera memory as “WAV” file
format.

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4.5. The PC camera mode
In PC camera mode, you can use Digital Camera 1300 as a motion image capturing device for your PC. You can use it for
video conferencing, capturing snapshots and so on.
4.5.1. Using Digital Camera as a PC camera
Turn on the power of the camera by pressing the “Power/Mode” button.
Refer to the illustration below to connect the camera to PC using the USB cable. When connected, the PC mode icon
and the number of images in camera memory will appear on the status display.
Right-click on the icon on Windows Taskbar and select “QuickSnap” in the submenu which appears, then you will
see a DC 1300 frame appear on the screen. Wait several seconds and the frame will turn to be a DC 1300 monitor frame
as follow shows.