Brinno GardenWatchCam Time Lapse manual

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    The Brinno GardenWatchCam is a low cost, light weight, weather resistant, battery operated time-lapse camera that captures the entire lifecycle of any garden season by taking photos at predetermined time settings. Watch Your Garden Grow 7F , No.75, Zhou Zi St., Taipei City 11493, Taiwan -0306 F +886-2-8751-0549 www.brinno .com 301-0002-10 EN-A2[...]

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    Package Contents Brinno Incorporated’ s GardenW atchCam Users Manual Thank you for purchasing the Brinno Gar denW atchCam. The Brinno GardenW atchCam is designed to allow you to capture the entire life cycle of a growing gar den from the first bud to the last leaf falling, or capture anything else that happens depending on wher e you set your cam[...]

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    1. Remove the GardenW atchCam fr om the package. 2. Check to make sure that all the contents ar e included. 3. Open up the GardenW atchCam by placing it Lens side down on a flat surface, or Lens side down in the palm of your hand, and remove the battery door by pulling open the latch. 4. With the wheel in the middle of the camera you can choose bet[...]

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    5. Insert 4 AA batteries following the polarity markings (+ -) inside the camera. 6. Insert any standard USB Flash Drive into the GardenW atchCam in the open slot between the batteries. ***(Please note that the maximum size USB Flash Drive that the GardenWatchCam supports is a 8GB USB Flash Drive. If you use a USB Flash Drive with a larger memory d[...]

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    10.After choosing the lens setting appropriate to the subject to be photographed, the camera should be aimed so that the lens is pointing at the center of the subject. Because the field of view of the lens is quite wide, the positioning of the GardenW atchCam does not have to be extremely pr ecise. But because a typical time lapse sequence takes pl[...]

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    Installing the software for your GardenWatchCam Standard Installation 1. Insert the GardenW atchCam CD into your computer . 2. The CD will automatically open to the folder named “Brinno GardenW atchCam”, where you will see an icon named “Setup GWC”. 3. Double click on this icon to start the setup program. Manual Installation If you insert y[...]

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    Loading your Time and Date Stamp and Custom Time Interval Setting onto your USB Flash Drive : 1. Insert your USB Flash Drive into any available USB port on your computer . Windows will automatically assign a drive letter to the USB flash drive. Make a note of the drive letter assigned to the USB flash drive. 2. Start the “GardenW atchCam Setup”[...]

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    How to use “GardenWatchCam Player” The following sections describe the controls used to control the player . 1.1. Menu Functions 1.1.1. File – Open “File Open” allows the user to select an A VI file for loading and displaying. Multiple files can be selected, and will be added to the playlist. 1.1.2. File – Save Current “File Save” .[...]

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    Thank you for purchasing Brinno GardenWatchCam ‧ 14 15 ‧ 1.6. Playlist GardenW atchCam Player allows you to play multiple files, either from the same directory or fr om multiple directories. T o add files to an existing playlist, simply drag and drop one or mor e files onto the GardenW atchCam Player window . Alter natively , using the “File [...]