User manual KONICA MINOLTA DIMAGE EX 1500

[. . . ] TABLE OF CONTENTS Thank you for purchasing this Minolta product. Your new digital camera has extraordinary features that expand your image capturing horizons. · Megapixel (1. 5 million pixels), progressive scan Sony Wfine CCDTM with primary For Proper and Safe Use . . 5 GETTING STARTED RIGHT AWAY Preparation . NAMES OF PARTS Camera Body - Front Camera Body - Back LCD Monitor . [. . . ] Receive. . . Preferences: Language Video Mode NTSC PAL 82 83 REVIEW MENUS DELETING IMAGES Delete unwanted images from the CompactFlash card in the camera. Images cannot be recovered once deleted. It is recommended that important images be protected before starting the delete function (p. 90). Press the Delete soft key. · A confirmation screen will appear. · Pressing the Exit soft key will return the camera to the Review screen. Turn the camera on and slide the Mode switch to REV. · Press the green lock button while switching to REV from PLAY or REC. Press the Start soft key. · A progress bar may appear if there are many images to be deleted. · Pressing the Exit soft key cancels the operation and returns the camera to the Review screen. Select a single image (p. 75, 86)). · When the operation is complete, the camera will return to the Review screen. Press the menu button. · The Review mode menus will appear. The image numbers of the remaining frames do not change. Press the Left or Right button to select the Edit menu. Press the Up or Down button to highlight Delete. 84 85 REVIEW MENUS GROUP CREATING A NEW GROUP Create and name groups of images to aid in organization. An image can belong to only one group, but it can belong to a Category at the same time. Press the Create New soft key · The Create New Group menu will appear. Turn the camera on and slide the Mode switch to REV. · Press the mode lock button while switching to REV from PLAY or REC. Mark multiple images or select a single image (p. 75, 76). Press the Up or Down button to select a character, then press the Right button to set the character and move to the next space. Press the Menu button. When the name is complete, press the Done soft key. · The new group is created and the camera will return to the Edit menu. · A group name can have up to 8 characters. Press the Left or Right button until Edit is selected. Press the Up or Down button until Group is highlighted. Press the Add soft key. · The Add to Group menu will appear. IMPORTANT: When a function (such as Mark or Delete) is applied to a closed group (p. 86), the function is performed to all the images in the group. 86 Continued on next page. 87 REVIEW MENUS The images will appear with the Group name in the Review screen. Group name has priority of Camera name in the display. GROUP - CONT'D ADDING TO A GROUP Add images to a group that already exists. DISSOLVING A GROUP Remove all the images from the group and delete the group name from the Group list. The images will remain on the compact flash card in the camera. Follow steps 1 through 5 for "Creating a Group". · The Add to Group menu will appear. Press the Up or Down button to highlight a group. Turn the camera on and slide the Mode switch to REV. · Press the mode lock button while switching to REV from PLAY or REC. Select an image in the group (p. Press the Left or Right button until Edit is selected. Press the Select soft key to select the highlighted group. · A will appear next to the selection, then the camera will return to the Edit menu. Press the Up or Down button until Group is highlighted. Press the Dissolve soft key. · The Dissolve soft key is only available when a group is marked or selected. · The Dissolve soft key will disappear when the operation is complete. Press the Exit soft key to return to the Review screen. 88 89 REVIEW MENUS PROTECTING IMAGES Important images can be write-protected to guard them from accidental deletion. Protected images cannot be removed from the compact flash card using the Delete function. CAMERA-CAMERA TRANSFER It is possible to make a wireless transfer of images between two cameras that both use the Digita operating system and have IrDA interfaces. These instructions assume both the sending and receiving camera is a Minolta Dimâge EX. Turn the camera on and slide the Mode switch to REV. · Press the green lock button while switching to REV from PLAY or REC. PREPARATION Place the sending and receiving cameras so they face each other. · The cameras should approximately 30 - 60cm (about 1 - 2 feet) apart. · Be sure no obstructions are between the two cameras and nothing is blocking the IrDA sensors. Select a single image (p. [. . . ] Insert the Dimâge EX CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. Type D:\DimageEX\Dx6core. exe in the Open text box, then click on OK. IMPORTANT INFORMATION SOFTWARE INFORMATION FOR MACINTOSH Installation of QuickTime 3. 0 QuickTime 3. 0 is necessary to run the Digita Desktop software on the Macintosh. Install QuickTime 3. 0 if it is not already installed on your system. Insert the Dimâge EX CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. [. . . ]