Polaroid Fun Flash 640 SE User manual

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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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Changing the flash setting
1. Turn on the camera (a); it is in No
Flash (nF) mode.
2. Press the flash setting button (c) to
change the setting. The LCD status
dis lay (b) shows the new setting.
3. If you turn on the Autoflash (AF) or
Force Flash (FF) setting, the flash
charges for a few seconds. The flash
indicator (d) lights yellow when the flash
is charged and ready to take a hoto.
If the flash takes longer than 25 seconds
to charge, the Battery Low icon (bL) a ears on the LCD status dis lay and the flash sto s
charging. You need to re lace the camera batteries to use the flash (see age 4 to re lace
batteries).
Note: If the camera detects the Battery Low condition when you turn it on, the flash does
not charge.
Note: If the camera is not used within 45 seconds after the flash is fully charged (or 45
seconds after the Battery Low icon a ears), the camera enters slee mode.
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Using the self-timer
1. Turn on the camera (a).
2. Set the camera into osition to take a hoto.
3. Look through the viewfinder (b) to
com ose the hoto.
4. Press the self-timer button (c). The camera
bee s for 15 seconds, the bee s eeds u
and then sto s just before the camera takes
the hoto.
Note: You do not need to ress the
shutter button to take a self-
timed hoto.
abc
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Deleting photos
You must delete hotos from your camera or transfer hotos to your com uter when the camera’s
memory is full. The memory is full when the icture counter does not increase after you take a hoto
(usually after you take 30 hotos).
See age 12 to learn how to transfer hotos to your com uter and age 17 to learn how to delete
hotos from the camera using the PhotoIm ression 2000 software.
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Transferring photos to your computer
To transfer your digital hotos to your com uter, first install the Polaroid PhotoIm ression 2000
Software included in your kit.
This software includes many fun and interesting features:
•One-click fix technology that instantly im roves any digital image.
•A wide selection of digital s ecial effects such as melting and swirling.
•PhotoFantasy, which lets you ut someone’s image inside one of the many su lied digital
fantasies.
Minimum system requirements
Before installing the software, make sure that your com uter meets these requirements:
•PC with Pentium class rocessor
•Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me
•32 MB of RAM
•178 MB available hard drive s ace
•SVGA monitor with 800 x 600 resolution or greater
•Available RS232-C COMM (serial) ort (on com uters running Windows 95, Windows 98, or
Windows Me) or a high-s eed USB ort (on com uters running Windows 98 or Windows Me)
•2x or faster CD-ROM drive
•Mouse
Note: If you have any questions about the system ca abilities of your com uter, read the
documentation that came with the com uter or contact the com uter manufacturer.
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Installing PhotoImpression 2000 Software
1. Insert the PhotoIm ression CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive.
If the installation rogram does not start automatically:
a. Select Run from the Windows Start menu.
b. Click Browse to locate your CD-ROM drive.
c. Select Setup.exe from the CD-ROM.
d. Click Open.
e. Click OK.
2. Follow the instructions on your com uter screen.
3. Click Finish to com lete software installation.
Note: Read the ReadMe file for any im ortant last minute information about your
software. You can access the ReadMe file by clicking the Start menu, then
selecting Programs\Polaroid\ReadMe.
Using PhotoImpression 2000 software
For information about using Polaroid PhotoIm ression 2000 Software, click on the ?
button to o en the online Hel .
? button
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Conne ting the digital amera to your omputer
1. Turn off the camera, com uter, and any eri heral devices.
Note: You do not need to turn off a Windows 98 or Windows Me com uter to connect the
camera to its USB ort.
2. Locate the serial/USB connector cable from your kit.
Note: The serial/USB
connector cable is
actually two different
cables in one, with one
end s lit into two
connectors. This allows
you to choose to
connect the camera to
your com uter using either a USB ort or the serial ort.
Note: Transferring hotos with a USB ort is much faster than doing so with a serial ort.
Note: If your com uter does not have a USB ort, it is necessary to connect the camera to
the serial ort.
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3. Connect the serial head of the cable (a) to the serial ort on your Windows 95, Windows 98, or
Windows Me com uter. Or connect the USB head of the cable (b) to the USB ort on your
Windows 98 or Windows Me com uter.
Note: If the connection between the USB head and the com uter USB ort is not tight, the
USB head may eventually ull out of the ort. Check that the USB head is fully
lugged in every time you transfer hotos.
Note: To get hel finding the serial or USB ort on your com uter, read the instruction
manual that came with your com uter or contact the com uter manufacturer.
4. Connect the other end of the cable to the camera (c).
Note: When inserting the lug into the camera, the arrow on the lug should face the
camera front. Insert the lug straight into the ort and do not turn or twist the lug.
c
b
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5. Turn on the camera.
6. Turn on the com uter.
Note: The com uter can remain on when you lug the serial/USB connector cable into the
com uter’s USB ort.
7. From the Start menu, select Programs\Polaroid\PhotoImpression 2000.
The software launches.
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Transferring photos to your omputer
1. Click Get Photo.
The Get Photo button lets you select an image from a variety of sources:
election: Click on it to:
Album O en an image file from a PhotoIm ression 2000 album
From File O en a recently used image or any image file on your com uter
Camera/Scanner Transfer a hoto from your camera, scanner, or other TWAIN-
com atible device
Create New Create a new image file
Screen Capture Grab an entire com uter screen or active window
Get
Photo
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2. Click Camera/Scanner.
The Select Source list a ears.
3. Select Polaroid Fun Flash 640 SE Camera.
4. Choose the destination album for your hotos from the Select Album list.
Note: To create a new album, select [New] and use the album named New Album1
or enter a different album name.
5. Click the Acquire button.
The digital camera TWAIN software window
o ens. TWAIN software is used to transfer,
delete, and save hotos from your camera.
6. Click Refresh Thumbnails to dis lay
your hotos in the TWAIN window.
7. Click on a hoto thumbnail to select it for
transfer to your com uter.
To transfer more that one hoto, ress
Control (Ctrl) on your keyboard while you click on each thumbnail image.
To transfer all of the hotos from the camera, click Select All.
Camera/Scanner button
Select Source list
Acquire button
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