KODAK DIGITAL SCIENCE DC40 Camera-Using the Camera

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KODAK DIGITAL SCIENCE DC40 Camera
Using the Camera

Before you begin taking pictures, you should become familiar with the camera controls so you can make feature choices. The following sections describe how to use the controls.

Camera feature selections are made through the controls on the camera's display. All controls revert to their default settings when the camera is turned off and on again. Settings remain in place, however, when the camera is wakened from its inactive state. Refer to Waking the Camera for more information.

Accessing Controls

The camera controls are manipulated using the icons in the display.

Moving Between Features

The Current feature marker is a symbol that appears above the feature icons in the display. It indicates the feature for which you can make option selections.

The Feature button moves the Current feature marker from one feature control icon to the next.

To make an icon the active feature, press the Feature button until the Current feature marker appears above the icon for the feature you want.

Making Feature Selections

Once the Current feature marker is positioned above the feature you want to change, you can use the Select button to choose the feature's setting.

Press the top or bottom of the Select button to display the various settings available for the current feature.

The action taken when you press the top versus the bottom portion of the Select button depends on the feature. For more information, refer to the specific instructions for setting each feature.

Setting the Flash

The effective range for the flash is between four and nine feet. In order for the flash to have an impact on the picture, make sure you are between four and nine feet away from the subject.

The Flash icon allows you to change flash settings.

Flash Setting Descriptions

The three flash settings are described below.

Automatic Flash

With this setting, the camera determines whether or not the flash should be used based on the existing light. This is the default setting.

To use automatic flash, do not make any changes to the flash feature.

Flash Off

With this setting the flash is not used even when existing light is dim.

To turn off the flash:

Press the Feature button until the Current Feature Marker appears above the Flash icon if it is not already positioned there.
Press the Select button until the icon appears next to the Flash icon.

Flash On

With this setting, the flash is used even when existing light is bright.

To turn on the flash:

Press the Feature button until the Current Feature Marker appears above the Flash icon if it is not already positioned there.
Press the Select button until the icon appears to the right of the Flash icon.

Setting the Timer

The timer allows you to specify the period of time that the camera should wait after the shutter button is pressed before taking a picture. You can set the timer and then move in front of the camera so you can be in the picture.

The Timer icon allows you to change timer settings.

Timer Setting Descriptions

The three timer settings are described below.

No Wait

With this setting, the camera takes the picture as soon as the shutter button is pressed. This is the default setting.

To take pictures immediately, do not make any changes to the timer feature.

Ten Seconds

With this setting, the camera waits ten seconds after the shutter button is pressed before taking pictures.

When you press the shutter button, the red timer indicator on the front of the camera illuminates for eight seconds, then blinks for two seconds. At ten seconds, the picture is taken.

To set the timer to ten seconds:

Press the Feature button until the Current Feature Marker appears above the Timer icon .
Press the Select button until the "10" icon appears to the right of the Timer icon.

Twenty Seconds

With this setting, the camera waits twenty seconds after the shutter button is pressed before taking pictures.

When you press the shutter button, the red timer indicator on the front of the camera illuminates for eighteen seconds, then blinks for two seconds. At twenty seconds, the picture is taken.

To set the timer to twenty seconds:

Press the Feature button until the Current Feature Marker appears above the Timer icon .
Press the Select button until the "20" icon appears to the right of the Timer icon.

Setting the Exposure

The Exposure icon allows you to control the size of the lens opening. Changing the exposure helps adjust for dim and bright lighting. For example, if the primary source of light is from behind your subject, you may want to change the exposure to the highest setting.

You can use the automatic exposure level by making no change to the Exposure icon, or you can select from two greater and two lesser degrees of exposure in 1/2 f-stop steps (for a total change of 1 full stop). The illustrations below shows the effect that changing the exposure can have on the image.

Normal Exposure-

1/2 f-stop greater than normal exposrue-

1 f-stop greater than normal exposure-

To make an exposure selection:

Press the Feature button until the Current Feature Marker appears above the Exposure icon .
Press the top of the Select button to move the selector arrow below the Exposure icon to a greater exposure level.

OR

Press the bottom of the Select button to move the selector arrow below the Exposure icon to a lesser exposure level.

Waking the Camera

The camera reverts to an inactive mode if no action is taken for 60 seconds. This state conserves energy to extend battery life.

To return the camera to its active state: Press and release the shutter button.

Press the Feature or Select button.

Taking Pictures

The DC40 Camera focuses on subjects between distances of four feet and infinity. Pictures taken with subjects closer than four feet may be blurry unless an accessory adapter lens is used.

Hold the camera so that the handstrap is on the right side and the top of the camera is facing up.
Push the fingers of your right hand up through the handstrap, letting the camera rest on your thumb. Your index finger should rest on the shutter button.
Hold the camera up to your face and look through the viewfinder.
Frame the subject in the viewfinder window.
If you want to frame the picture like a portrait, turn the camera so that it is vertically oriented (with the flash at the top).

Note: The picture will include an area slightly larger than the image you see framed through the viewfinder.
Hold the camera steady and press the shutter button.
There is a brief delay between the time the shutter button is pressed and the time the picture is actually taken. Be sure to hold the camera still until you hear the click of the shutter.

A red light will appear in the viewfinder. When the red light turns off and the camera beeps, it is ready to take another picture.

Managing Pictures

Storing Pictures

Your DC40 camera can store up to 48 pictures by default, however the camera software application allows you to change camera features which may impact the actual number that can be stored. Refer to the camera software documentation for more information.

By default, the display shows you the number of pictures that you can take before the camera is full. As you take pictures, the picture count in the display decreases. For example, let's say that you are about to take pictures and the count displays "27." After taking two pictures, the count displays "25." When the camera is full, the count displays "0" and the "0" flashes if you press the shutter button. No pictures can be taken at this point until you have deleted stored pictures.

Erasing Pictures

Once you have transferred stored pictures to your computer, you should erase them from the camera to make room for new pictures.

Erasing the Last Picture

If you have enabled this feature with the camera software, you will be able to erase the last picture you took.

If you enable this feature through the camera software, the number of images that the camera can store is reduced from 48 to 31.

Press the Feature button until the Current Feature Marker appears above the Last Picture icon .
Note: The Last Picture icon will appear only if the erase last picture feature is enabled through the camera software.
Press the top of the Select button.
The Last Picture icon will blink and the Warning icon ! will appear next to the Battery icon.
Press the top of the Select button again.
The Last Picture icon will continue to blink, and the Warning icon will disappear. When the picture has been deleted, the camera will beep, and the Last Picture icon will stop blinking.

Note: If you want to stop the camera before the picture is deleted, press the shutter button, the Features button, or the bottom of the Select button. If the camera has not started deleting, the delete process will be halted.

Erasing All Pictures

Press the Feature button until the Current feature marker appears above the All Pictures icon .
Press the top of the Select button.
The All Pictures icon will blink and the Warning icon ! will appear next to the Battery icon.
Press the top of the Select button again.
The All Pictures icon will continue to blink, and the Warning icon will disappear. When the pictures have been deleted, the camera will beep, the All Pictures icon will stop blinking, and the picture count will return to "48."

Note: If you want to stop the camera before the pictures are deleted, press the shutter button, the Features button, or the bottom of the Select button. If the camera has not started deleting, the delete process will be halted.