Customizing Your Camera with the My Camera Settings

The start-up image, start-up sound, shutter sound, operation sound, and selftimer sound are called the My Camera Settings. You can add your favorite images and sounds from your computer to the My Camera Settings in the camera. This topic explains how to upload the My Camera Settings saved onto your computer to the camera. Use ImageBrowser to perform this function.

Displaying the My Camera Window

To save the My Camera Settings to the camera, you use the My Camera window. The following explains the procedures for displaying the My Camera window.

1. The Camera Window will open after you have connected the camera to the computer and started ImageBrowser.

2. Click 'Setup Options' in the Camera Window and select 'My Camera' in the pop-up menu.

The My Camera Selection dialog will display.

3. Select 'Start-up Image, Start-up Sound, Operation Sound, Selftimer Sound and Shutter Sound' and click 'OK'.

This will display the My Camera window.

ImageBrowser already contains several pre-recorded My Camera Settings items. You can check these items with the My Camera window.

The My Camera Window

You can add new files as My Camera Settings to the My Camera window. See Adding New Data to the My Camera Window (below).

Saving the My Camera Settings to the Camera

You can save the My Camera Settings displayed in the My Camera window to the camera.

My Camera Settings can be selected and saved in either of two ways to the camera: individually or in theme sets. The "Animal" theme, for example, features an animal in the start-up image and animals calls in each of the sound files. The names of the prepared files for the various My Camera Settings themes all begin with the same root name, such as "Animal". For example, the start-up image that starts with "Animal" shows an animal picture while the similarly named sound files feature animal sounds.

Settings that do not appear in the My Computer list of the My Camera window cannot be saved to the camera. Do not detach the USB cable, turn the camera power off or disconnect the camera from the computer while the My Camera Settings are being saved to the camera or the settings from the camera are being saved to the computer.

1. Confirm that the type of setting you wish to save to the camera is selected in the Type list box.

2. Select the setting from the Computer list that you would like to add.

If you selected 'Theme' in the Type category, the thumbnail (tiny version) of the start-up image will display to the right and the sound files will play in the order of start-up sound, shutter sound, operation sound and self-timer sound.

3. Select the setting in the Camera list that you would like to change and click the button.

The Camera list setting will change to the selected file. If a setting for this category has previously been saved to the camera, it will be overwritten. Repeat steps 1-3 as required.

4. Click the 'Save to Camera' button.

This concludes the process of saving the My Camera Settings to the camera.

To use this data on the camera, change the start-up image and sound settings on the camera itself. Please see the Camera User Guide for these instructions.

Adding New Data to the My Camera Window

To add new data to the My Camera window, you need to create the new data, save it to the computer and add that file to the My Camera window.

Create an Original Start-up Image File and then Add It

Start by creating the image file that will become the start-up image and save it to the computer. Use an image editing program, such as ArcSoft PhotoImpression. Create the file in the JPEG format at a size of (w)320 X (h)240 pixels. Once you have created the data and saved it to the computer, use the following procedures to add it to the My Camera window.

1. Open the My Camera window and click the 'Add' button. This will display the file opening dialog.

2. Select the file you created and click 'Open'.

The selected file will appear in the Computer list. This concludes the process for adding new data. You can save the newly created data to the camera using the procedures described in the Saving the My Camera Settings to the Camera section (above).

To delete a setting, select the file name and click the 'Send to Trash' button at the bottom of the My Computer list.

Add an Original Sound File

Use a program such as ArcSoft VideoImpression to change the file format to the WAV format after you have copied the sound file. Then proceed with the steps on the previous page.

With Mac OS 9, you can use the standard-issue SimpleSound program to record a sound file. Record the sound as an 11.025 kHz or 8.000 kHz, 8 bit, mono sound in the WAV format. The following chart shows standard time lengths for My Camera Sounds.