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Why Digital?:

• Immediate feedback/delete

• Email, webpage, powerpoint, word

• Family digital albums on cd maybe

• Print out any size you want on glossy paper

Summary of Contents for Mavica FD87

Page 1: ...SONY MAVICA DIGITAL CAMERA BASICS ...

Page 2: ...Why Digital Immediate feedback delete Email webpage powerpoint word Family digital albums on cd maybe Print out any size you want on glossy paper ...

Page 3: ...Digital cameras in general need power a medium to store pictures memory stick floppy means of getting pictures from camera into computer wire or disk ...

Page 4: ...t Overnight 1 Library s Sony Mavica FD87 2 Rutledge s Sony Mavica FD88 3 Richardson S Sony Mavica FD88 ANDREW LEWIS chose Sony MAVICA because the floppy disk eliminates the need for the wire from camera to computer ...

Page 5: ...Personally You can buy the FD70 s 80 s and 90 s on Ebay The newer MAVICAs are CD s Same principle no wires MVCCD300 for 799 99 after 200 rebate and price break at Office Max in May 12 s Roanoke Times ...

Page 6: ...Fronts of the Mavicas Front of the 87 ...

Page 7: ...Front of the 88 ...

Page 8: ...Front of the 90 ...

Page 9: ...Back of 87 ...

Page 10: ...Back of 88 ...

Page 11: ...Back of 90 ...

Page 12: ...To get started you must have a 2HD 1 44 mb 3 5 floppy disk and charged infolithium battery ...

Page 13: ...Number of pictures on floppy In standard mode 640 about 30 pictures Battery life 1 hour more or less Check display Time required to charge battery 2 to 3 hours more or less ...

Page 14: ... Turn on power 4 Set slide to STILL 5 Push control button in a southerly direction to get rid of mess at bottom of screen 6 Toggle the DISPLAY button to display information Hopefully you have time left on the battery 640 std and white space on the disk all at top of screen This stuff won t show up on your picture ...

Page 15: ...cture position The focus button should be set on auto 8 Capture your target in the viewer on the back Do not put your eye to the viewer you will look dumb 9 Use the zoom slide with the W T on back of 88 on front of 87 and 90 to size up your target 10 Make sure that your hands and fingers are not covering any windows or holes or inadvertently pushing the buttons at the back or on the sides of the c...

Page 16: ... halfway down until the green light quits flashing and the beeper sounds At this point the camera has completed all its automatic adjustments 12 Finish depressing the shutter Do not bang the camera around until it has finished its business ...

Page 17: ...n press control button to the west and pressing the control button straight into the camera from the button s center otherwise since the return button is yellowed by default you can just press the control button straight down upon getting the picture to return to picture taking mode All three cameras allow you to see all the pictures taken so far by Sliding to play mode and pressing west or east T...

Page 18: ...w a still Then push the center of the control button to select it for viewing Deleting In play mode with menu showing at bottom of screen yellow the delete button by pushing the control button in a direction probably easterly Push the center of the control button to activate delete If you really want delete the picture yellow ok and press the navel of the control button otherwise press the navel w...

Page 19: ...If you still have room on your disk hit display if need be slide to still and keep on taking pictures If you want to do a short movie slide to movie Target and shutter ...

Page 20: ...e 3 The pictures have names that start with MVC and end in jpg Click one open 4 The picture will open up in some kind of photoeditor or web browser or media viewer 5 You may have the option of printing or saving from the file menu Hopefully you can print preview before you print Hit the escape key to get out of the preview ...

Page 21: ...nd the a drive 4 Click on your picture You can rename the picture by right clicking its icon when unopened and choosing rename 5 Check your message screen to make sure the file was attached 6 Press send The recipient s email program must be set to receive a file of the size that you are sending ...

Page 22: ... PPT presentation On toolbar choose Insert picture from file Choose your picture from the A drive and insert it You may want to choose print preview from File to see how your picture looks on the page Escape Click in the picture until little rectangles form at the corners in order to use the picture toolbar or to resize ...

Page 23: ...For more Mavica information see http salem k12 va us staff sfranklin sony_mavica_tutorials htm ...

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