User manual KONICA MINOLTA DIMAGE XT BIZ

[. . . ] Quick Guide E INSTRUCTION MANUAL 9222-2721-11 SY-A308/ME-0308 BEFORE YOU BEGIN Thank you for purchasing the DiMAGE Xt Biz digital camera. The Xt Biz provides great features of the DiMAGE Xt, renowned for its non-extending zoom and slim design, and new recording functions for image and audio annotation, and text image processing with the DiMAGE Biz Software. Please take the time to read through this instruction manual so you can enjoy all the features of your new digital camera. This document explains unique Xt Biz functions, and the basic procedures from downloading images from the camera through mailing annotation files. [. . . ] Each time the button is pressed the display format cycles through the following formats. 9, 11) Single-frame playback (full-display) Single-frame playback (image only) Main-image selection screen Annotation screen (p. 10, 12) Entire image-area marquee Local area marquee Quick View, Delete button Recorded images and audio tracks can be played back and deleted with the Quick View/Delete button from the main-image selection screen and annotation screen. Only linked audio tracks can be played back in Quick View from the audio-annotation screen. A linked audio track cannot be deleted. Play Pause Rew Fwd Vol Menu button To exit Quick View, press the menu button. The menu-button indicator at the bottom right of the monitor indicates the current screen can be closed by pressing the menu button. Menu-button indicator Manual reference page DiMAGE Xt - Viewing images, Deleting single images, 33. Playing back movies and audio recordings, 61. 13 Creating . mdm files from camera images An annotation series captured by the camera can be converted automatically by the DiMAGE Biz Software to an . mdm annotation file. See the DiMAGE Biz Software manual for installation instructions. Start up the computer. Insert the small plug of the USB cable into the camera, and attach the other end of the USB cable to the computer's USB port. If "initializing USB connection" message does not disappear from the LCD monitor, the cable may have not been attached properly. Select the DiMAGE Biz Software from the DiMAGE Biz Software folder in the programs option of the start menu to start the application and open the main window. If the software was installed in a different location, open it from there. Main window Manual reference page DiMAGE Biz Software - System Requirements, 5. Disconnecting the camera from a computer, 92-93. 14 FROM ANNOTATION TO MAILING Select My computer > Removable Disk > DCIM > 10xMLT18 main window folder tree. The name of the folder containing the image varies with camera settings. The images in the selected folder on the camera's memory card are displayed. If the message does not appear, an annotated file was not created on the camera or the . mdm files have already been created. Folder tree Select a folder in the computer to store the . mdm files. Click the save button. Using the folder tree, select the folder where the . mdm files are stored. If the folder is not found, select the update option from the view menu to update the tree. The thumbnails of the . mdm files are displayed in the file display area. Manual reference page DiMAGE Biz Software - Showing thumbnail images - Opening camera images, 10-14. 15 Opening the annotation window To open the annotation window, select an image in the main window and click the annotation button or select the view-comment option from the file menu. Double-clicking on an . mdm thumbnail or dragging and dropping the image onto the annotation button also opens the annotation window. File display area Annotation button Menu bar Tool bar Annotation window Main image Title text box Comment text box Comment check box Text comment Comment display area Manual reference page DiMAGE Biz Software - Annotation window, 28-30. 16 FROM ANNOTATION TO MAILING Adding text comments Text comments can be added to the main image in the annotation window. Click the desired area marquee from the tool bar (1), or select the area-marquee option in the view menu. Click and drag the mouse to place a red marquee over the area to be described with a comment (2). [. . . ] Rubber band Display area 3 1 2 Perspective is adjusted with the rubber band (2). The rubber band should line up with the horizontal and vertical image elements in the image. Click and drag on the black squares at the corner of the rubber band to adjust the shape. The area outside the rubber band will be deleted when processing is applied. Select the appropriate processing mode and click the corresponding apply button. [. . . ]