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FotoShow
™
Digital Image Center User’s Manual
CAUTION!
Your FotoShow
™
Image Center is compatible with 3.3v SmartMedia
™
memory
cards only. Using a 5v SmartMedia card with your FotoShow
™
Image Center may cause
irreparable damage to either the SmartMedia card or the FotoShow Image Center.
CAUTION!
Like video tapes and floppy disks, your Zip
®
disks and digital film are
sensitive to light and heat. Keep your FotoShow
™
Image Center and media out of heat
and direct sunlight. Never leave the FotoShow device or media on your car’s dashboard.
NOTE:
There are two locations to which your files may be copied. JPEG files will be
copied to an album titled “Album <date>.” Any non-JPEG files will be copied to a folder
titled “Camera_Misc.” Non-JPEG files will not be visible on your FotoShow
™
Image Center.
You must have a computer to view the contents of the Camera_Misc folder.
Adding Photos from Your Computer
For more information on using your FotoShow
™
Digital Image Center with your computer,
please view the Zip
®
Drive Manual on the Zip disk that came with this device. The Zip
Drive Manual is standard HTML and can be viewed with Internet Explorer
®
4.0 or
Netscape Navigator
™
4.5 on either a Macintosh
®
or Windows
®
PC.
NOTE:
You
must
save photos to the Zip
®
disk before they can be viewed.
1.Connect the FotoShow
™
Image Center to your Computer. If your Computer is already
equipped with a Zip
®
drive, insert a Zip disk into the drive.
2.Save your JPEG photos or images to the Zip
®
disk.
NOTE:
JPEG is the most common file format used by digital cameras. The FotoShow
™
Image Center is compatible with most JPEG formats; however, some less common
JPEG formats such as CMYK JPEG, progressive JPEG, motion JPEG, and JPEG 2000/JBIG
are incompatible. If you would like to view non-JPEG images (such as BMP, PICT, GIF,
PNG, EPS, or TIFF) on your FotoShow Image Center, you will need to use a computer
to convert them to a compatible JPEG format. For more information on converting
JPEG images on a computer, see
“JPEG Guidelines”
section on pg. 48.
3.Disconnect the FotoShow
™
Image Center from your computer and connect it to your
television. (If your computer already has a Zip
®
drive, remove the Zip disk and
insert it into the FotoShow Image Center connected to your television.)
NOTE:
The COPY button and all video and audio connectors are disabled when your
FotoShow
™
Image Center is connected to a computer that is powered on. The EJECT
button may be disabled by some computer operating systems (i.e., Mac
®
OS or Linux).
CAUTION!
Never connect your FotoShow
™
Image Center to a computer while you are
copying images from your digital film as this may result in an incomplete copy.
Connecting the FotoShow Image Center to a computer shuts down all of the Image
Center’s functionality, except for the Zip
®
drive, which may prevent your digital film from
being copied successfully.
