Sony Cyber-shot W50 Installation guide

Sony Cyber-shot W50 Basics
Introduction
Introduction
With the Sony Cyber-shot W50 digital camera you can add images and short
digital video clips with sound to your projects, multimedia presentations, and
Internet pages* easily.
Camera Basics
Parts of the Camera
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W50 digital camera has a few basic parts including a
lens, an image sensor, a memory card to hold images and video clips, battery,
and a LCD (liquid crystal display) to help you frame your subject.
1. Shutter button
2. Zoom W/T Lever
3. Finder window
4. Lens
5. POWER button
6. Microphone
7. Flash
8. Self-timer lamp
*Reminder: Before any PISD student’s name, picture, voice or verbal statement, or work can be used on a school’s
Internet page(s), the PISD’s Publications, Video, Internet Consent and Release Agreement must be signed by their
parent/guardian and be on file at the campus. This form is available from http://k-12.pisd.edu/techs/release.htm.
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1. AE/AF Lamp / Self timer lamp 12. Hook for wrist strap
2. Flash charging lamp/ Record lamp 13. Control button
3. Speaker 14. Image size / Delete button
4. Finder 15. Tripod receptacle
5. LCD screen 16. Battery / Memory stick cover
6. Screen display switch 17. Access lamp
7. MENU button 18. “Memory Stick Duo” slot
8. PLAYBACK button 19. Battery insertion slot
9. DC IN jack 20. Battery eject lever
10. DC IN jack cover 21. Multi-connector
11. Mode dial 13. Control button
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Recording Still Images
1. Press the POWER button.
2. Turn the mode dial to Auto Adjust Mode. This allows easy shooting with the
settings automatically adjusted for you.
3. Press and hold the Shutter Button halfway down and check the image in
the LCD display. The camera will automatically adjust. Once a green dot
appears in the display, the camera has finished adjusting and the shutter button
should be pressed all the way down.
4. The image is saved to a memory card inside of the camera.
5. To change the image quality (before taking the picture) push the
button on the camera. A digital image is made up of a collection of small dots
called pixels. If it contains a large number of pixels, the picture becomes large, it
takes up more memory, and the image is displayed in fine detail. Although you
cannot see the differences on the screen of the camera, the fine detail and data
processing time differ when the image is printed or displayed on a computer
screen.
Image Size Usage Guidelines
6M (2816 X 2112) Up to 8”X10” print
3M (2048 X 1536) Up to 5”X7” print
2M (1632 X 1224) Up to 4”X6” print
VGA (640 X 480) For E-mail
16:9 (1920 X 1080)
Larger
Smaller Display on HDTV or
Widescreen TV
Recording Video Clips
1. Press the POWER button.
2. Turn the mode dial to Video Mode.
3. Press the shutter button fully down and recording will begin.
4. To stop recording, press the shutter button fully down again.
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The table represents video recording times using various settings:
Capacity
Size
32MB/
Internal
memory 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB
640 (Fine) - - - 0:02:50 0:06:00 0:12:20 0:25:10
640
(Standard) 0:01:20 0:02:
50 0:05:50 0:10:40 0:21:40 0:44:20 1:31:00
160 0:22:40 0:45:
30 1:31:30 2:51:20 5:47:00 11:44:20 24:18:20
To change the video quality (before taking the video) push the button on
the camera.
Movie Image Size Frames/Second Usage Guidelines
640 (Fine) (640 X 480) Approx. 30 TV (high quality)
640 (Standard) (640 X 480) Approx .17 TV (standard quality)
160 (160 X 112) Approx. 8 For E-mail
On-screen Menus
Many of the cameras features are accessed using menu items.
1. Press the MENU button on the camera to display the menu.
2. Select the desired menu item with on the control button. If the desired
item is invisible, keep pressing until the item appears on the screen.
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3. Select the setting with . The setting you select is zoomed and set.
4. Press MENU to turn off the menu.
Please note that menu items vary depending on the mode dial position. See the
table below for available menus.
Working with Files
Viewing Images and Video Clips
1. Press the playback button on the camera.
2. Select an image or video clip using on the control button.
3. To play a video clip, push .
Deleting Files
1. Display the image or video clip you want to delete and press .
2. Select DELETE with , then press .
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Saving Files to the Computer
1. Press to turn on the camera.
2. Connect the camera to the computer’s USB port using the multi-use cable.
Note: When the connection is established for the first time, your computer
automatically runs a program to recognize the camera.
3. Start an appropriate editing application for the media you will be working with.
For example, you could use ImageBlender or Microsoft Picture Manager to work
with your still images and Adobe Premiere Elements or Windows Movie Maker to
work with video clips. Go to File > Open and navigate to the drive that says
Sony Memory Stick.
•Files are kept in the DCIM folder.
•Image files have the .jpg extension.
•Video clips have the .mpg extension.
•It is recommended that you move your files to another drive (off of the
camera) by using File > Save As and selecting a folder on your
computer.
•It is helpful to create a new folder on your computer to store your files.
Name the folder something that reminds you of what the files are from.
•A good habit is to name a folder of images or video clips with the date
included, i.e., “06-15-06-fieldtirip.”
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