User manual KONICA MINOLTA DIMAGE RD-175 SOFTWARE

[. . . ] RD-175 Digital Camera MINOLTA RD-175 Program Description RD-175 Digital Camera This Manual describes neither the procedure for operating your PC nor the procedure for operating the image-editing software which you use. Working with the Twain module for the RD-175 Digital Camera does require a basic knowledge of how to use a PC and the image-editing software used. Please refer to your PC's User Manual or the User Manual supplied with your image-editing software. MS, Microsoft, MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. [. . . ] Check that your Windows "SYSTEM" subdirectory contains file "WINASPI. DLL". Check that the correct pointer to the SCSI controller has been entered in line 1 of "config. sys": DEVICE=C:\SCSI\ASPI"x"DOS. SYS, where "x" will depend on the version of the DOS operating system and the controller which you are using, e. g. Normally, this pointer is entered automatically if you have installed the software for the controller with the Adaptec kit. 13 RD-175 Digital Camera Copy file "RD-175. DS" from the supplied diskette to the TWAIN subdirectory which is a subdirectory of the Windows directory. Create a TWAIN directory if it does not already exist. When you have made all necessary settings, switch off your computer before you connect the RD-175 Digital Camera. 14 RD-175 Digital Camera 5. Connecting the RD-175 Digital Camera to the PC Switch off the camera by sliding the master switch to LOCK. Switch off your PC and all connected devices. Open the cover on the RD-175's card slot. Plug the plug (half-size, 50-pin) onto the socket connector. Stecker. bmp The plug is locked in position. Connect the other end of the cable to your PC's SCSI port. If you have also connected other SCSI devices to your PC, connect the cable to the last device of the SCSI chain. The RD-175 Digital Camera may be used only with the original interface cable. Using other cables may mean that your system no longer applies with applicable EMC regulations *. Now switch the RD-175 to SCSI mode by setting the master switch to ON whilst keeping the MODE key pressed (see also Chapter 3). The copied image is saved in Minolta's own file format indicated by the file name extension ". mdc". The image can be neither displayed nor opened without the RD-175 TWAIN module. These files can only be renamed, moved, copied and deleted. Mark one or more images (by holding the Shift key) or click on "Select All" in order to select all images. Now click on the "Copy to File. . . " button. rd175_6. bmp By default, the images are numbered consecutively in the order of the recordings, starting with file "m001. mdc". If you choose "No", the images are saved with precisely this file name. You may choose only the destination directory. rd175_7. bmp 19 RD-175 Digital Camera You may also name the individual images in order to better distinguish between them. If you choose "Yes", you can select the file name and destination directory. rd175_8. bmp 20 RD-175 Digital Camera 6. 5 Opening and saving images stored in Minolta format Please proceed as follows in order to open the images stored on your PC's hard disk in Minolta's own format (. mdc): Choose "File" under Input at the top right in the main menu window and then click on the "Directories. . . " button. rd175_9. bmp In the dialogue window, choose the corresponding directory in which the images are located. rd175_7. bmp All images located in this directory are displayed to you in the main window. Please proceed as described in Point 6. 3 (Page 18) when editing and saving the images. 21 RD-175 Digital Camera 6. 6 Deleting images from your PC's hard disk You may also delete individual images, several images or all images stored on your PC's hard disk in Minolta's own format (. mdc) with the aid of the TWAIN module. [. . . ] Choose "No" if you wish to abort initialisation. Click on "OK" if the operation has been quit or aborted. You will now see the main menu window again (the number of free images is displayed on the camera display). 28 RD-175 Digital Camera 6. 9 Quitting the software Click on the "Quit" button at the bottom right in order to quit the main menu window of the RD-175's TWAIN module. You will see the following warning before you quit the program: rd175_18. bmp You can then quit your image-editing program as normal. 29 RD-175 Digital Camera 7. [. . . ]