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Congratulations on your purchase of the KOWA nonmyd 8s. The KOWA nonmyd 8s is a non-mydriatic retinal camera
for retinal photography. This manual provides a description of the operating procedures of the KOWA nonmyd 8s and
important precautions to be observed during its use.
Please read this manual carefully to assure that the instrument can demonstrate its full capabilities and work safely.
After you have finished reading, keep this manual in an easily accessible location near the instrument for future reference.
Operational Considerations for Safety
This manual describes important precautions to be observed when you use the instrument to assure that the instrument is
used safely without causing any damage to the human body or property of the purchaser and other persons.
The following designations and pictorial symbols should be fully comprehended before reading the manual.
Meanings of Designations
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Warning
Improper operation may result in serious injury *1 or death.
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Caution
Improper operation may result in bodily injury *2 or property damage. *3 .
*1
Serious injury means vision loss, an injury, high- or low-temperature burn, electric shock, fracture, or
poisoning that causes a subsequent complication or requires hospitalization or long-term outpatient
treatment.
*2
Bodily injury means an injury, burn, electric shock and so forth that will not necessitate
hospitalization or long-term outpatient treatment.
*3
Property damage means extensive damage to a house and/or household goods as well as a
domestic animal and pet.
Meanings of Symbol
/
Graphical indication of any warning and caution.
What is warned is explicitly and pictorially indicated by a picture or its associated message on or
near a pictorial symbol.
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Graphical indication of prohibited operation (prohibitive item).
What is prohibited is explicitly and pictorially indicated by a picture or its associated message on or
near a pictorial symbol.
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Graphical indication of any mandatory action (obligatory item).
What must always be done is explicitly and pictorially indicated by a picture or its associated mes-
sage on or near a pictorial symbol.
Disclaimer
KOWA is not responsible for:
• Any damage caused by fire, earthquake, third party’s action, any other accident or user’s intentional or unin -
tentional error, abuse or use under abnormal conditions.
• Any damage resulting from use of the product or its malfunction (e.g. operating loss, shutdown, change/loss
of stored data and so forth).
• Any damage resulting from disregarding what is described in the manual.
• Any damage resulting from malfunction caused by a combination of connected devices.
Introduction