A quick guide to the new cameras and what to save in the galleries on the Shared Drive.

Taking Pictures For Use In School

In The Box:-Camera-Battery-Memory card – really small-Memory card adapter-USB charger and computer lead-Documentation and Box

The Battery fits in only one way- I’ve found that if you locate the square at the bottom of the battery (the opposite side from the gold terminals) it needs to be on the side of the orange tab.

General rule is that it will go in quite easily – you won’t need to force it- if you do you might have it around the wrong way. You won’t need to take this out ever as it is charged through the camera (to save losing batteries)

To charge the camera plug the USB charger into a computer or USB plug (IPad plug). Then the other end plugs into the gold female end shown here.

To get the photographs from the camera you can use the same lead by plugging the USB side into a computer. It will show on the computer as if it’s a USB drive. Go to ‘Computer’ to see the pictures.

Alternately if you have a card reader on your computer you can use the Card reader adapter shown here insert the Micro SD (memory card) into the adapter and push the adapter into the card reader on your computer. You don’t want the adapter ‘locked’ as this will prevent you from deleting unwanted pictures.

Size of Images

For normal school/ website use we need no image bigger than 5 mega pixels in fact 5 megapixels is probably far larger than we will ever need day to day (these cameras will take images up to 20 mega pixels).

The cameras have all been set up to take images of 5 Megapixels but to check its always shown in the top corner. This will become obvious if you open an image on the computer and it is huge or the memory card fills up very quickly.

To adjust the size of the image

Go to the menu screen by pressing the button located at the bottom next to the screen (marked M)

This menu will be displayed, Click the down button until you get to Photo size and click ok

There you are given several options – basically the lower down the list the smaller the image. The current setting will be highlighted.

What to keep on the shared galleries?Please do not save any images on the shared galleries that cannot go into the website e.g. anyone who doesn’t have permission to be photographed we shouldn’t be saving images of.