Polaroid Fun Flash 640 SE User manual

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Inhalt
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27 - - - - Français
53 - - - - Deutsch
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Welcome to Polaroid Fun
Your Polaroid Fun Flash 640 SE Digital Camera kit contains everything you need to
take digital hotos, save them to your com uter, and mani ulate them. Using the
software in your kit, you can correct, edit, and lay with your digital hotos. You can
also use Polaroid PhotoIm ression 2000 Software with other TWAIN-com liant
digital cameras and scanners.
Your kit contains the following:
•Polaroid Fun Flash 640 SE Digital
Camera
•Wrist stra
•Four AAA batteries
•Camera-to-com uter cable (RS-232C
serial and USB connector)
•Polaroid PhotoIm ression 2000
Software
•Quickstart Guide
Note: Your com uter needs an RS-232C serial ort or a high-s eed USB ort to use your
digital camera.
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Camera features
a. Viewfinder
b. Flash unit
c. Lens
d. Serial/USB cable connector ort
e. Tri od mount
f. Battery com artment
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g. LCD status dis lay
h. Power/status indicator light
i. Flash indicator light
j. Viewfinder
. Power button
l. Flash button
m.Self-timer button
n. Shutter button
o. Wrist stra slot
p. Battery com artment
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Inserting batteries
Your kit includes four AAA batteries.
1. O en the battery door.
2. Insert four AAA batteries. Make sure that the
battery terminals (+and -) are ro erly
ositioned.
3. Close the battery door.
Note: Re lace the batteries when the
ower/status indicator light blinks,
the LCD status dis lay shows the
battery-low message (bL), or the
LCD status dis lay does not turn on.
Note: Re lace all four batteries at the same time. Do not mix old and new batteries,
batteries of different ty es, or batteries from different manufacturers. High-ca acity
su er-alkaline batteries rovide longer battery life in digital cameras.
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Taking photos
1. Turn on the camera (a). The green ower/
status light (b) on the back of the camera
is lit.
If the green ower/status light is not lit,
check to make sure the batteries are
ro erly loaded and do not need re lacing.
2. Frame your subject(s) in the viewfinder (c).
3. Hold the camera steady; ress and hold
the shutter button (d) until the camera
bee s. The camera increases the icture
counter in the LCD status dis lay (e) by
one.
abc
d
e
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Using sleep mode
To save battery ower, your digital camera
automatically shuts off after 45 seconds of
inactivity. In this slee mode, the LCD status
dis lay (a) turns off, the ower/status
indicator light (b) dis lays green, and the
camera bee s every ten seconds.
Press the ower button (d) once to bring
the camera out of slee mode. The LCD
status dis lay (a) turns on; the ower/
status indicator light (b) dis lays green.
Press the shutter button (c) to take a hoto.
Note: The ower shuts off after three minutes in slee mode, the LCD dis lays the system-
shutdown message (Sd), and the camera bee s. Push the ower button (d) to
restore ower.
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Using the picture counter
The icture counter is found on the LCD status dis lay. The camera comes with 2 MB of internal
memory, which ty ically stores 30 hotos (640 x 480 ixel resolution). The number of hotos that the
camera actually stores de ends on the com lexity of the hotos.
1. Turn on the camera (a).
2. Press the shutter button (b).
The camera bee s and increases the
icture counter in the LCD status
dis lay (c) by one.
When memory is full, the LCD status
dis lay shows the memory-full
message (FL).
Note: The camera does not have
removable memory. When
memory is full, transfer hotos into your com uter and then erase them from the
camera memory. See age 12 to transfer hotos to your com uter.
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Using the flash
When you turn on your digital camera, it is in the No Flash (nF) mode. You can change the
flash setting at any time.
Note: If the batteries are very weak when you turn on the camera, the flash does not
charge.
The camera indicates when you may need to use the flash by dis laying the Low Lighting message
(LL) in the LCD status dis lay. There are three flash settings:
LCD icon Flash setting
nF No Flash (flash off)
•The flash does not fire.
•Use when shooting toward a reflective background, such as a
window or a mirror.
AF Autoflash
•The flash fires automatically when needed.
•The autoex osure sensor in the camera determines when the
flash is necessary.
FF Force Flash
The flash fires for every hoto.
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