1. Classroom Digital Camera
Quick User Guide for Students
Sanyo VPC-S880

2. The Basics
Zoom
LCD Monitor
Menu & Mode
Power
4 Way Control
Shutter
Button
Set/Display
Flash
USB Connector
Battery & Memory Card
The labels on these images are referred to throughout this document. Please take a moment and familiarize yourself with the parts of the camera.
Lens

3. Getting Started
To change the batteries OR To insert the memory card (allows more storage for saving pictures):
Carefully open the door on the bottom of the camera
Pay close attention to the direction you are inserting both the batteries and/or the memory card
For taking pictures, be sure that the memory card is not in the lock position

4. Point and Shoot Turn on the camera (press the Power button 1 time)
Choose your mode
Press the mode button to choose: Capture (still pictures), Video, or Playback
Frame your picture using the following features:
Zoom (zoom in or out with the zoom button)
4 Way Control Settings
Up button: focus
Right button: flash
Left button: backlight/exposure
Hold the shutter button until the picture takes
The picture will briefly preview on the LCD display
To review pictures press the Mode button until the playback mode is displayed and use the right button to scroll through the taken pictures

5. Make Your Pictures Better Advanced Settings
Press the Set/Display Button to use the following features:
Set Button Features:
Scene: There are several scenes you can choose from to make your picture better including portrait, landscape, sports, and text to name a few
Take several different pictures using all of these features to test the differences
Panorama
You can take a series of shots and put them together on the computer with this feature
Anti-Shake
This helps to minimize hand shaking in the picture taking (I would recommend it with this camera since it is easy to come out with fuzzy pictures)

6. More Advanced Features
Press the Menu Button and scroll through the menu options for these highlighted features:
Note: The default settings typically have the best balance of quality and storage capacity. The higher the quality of the picture, the less storage capacity you will have.
Menu Button Features:
Size: Setting ranging from 8M (the most pixels) to 0.3M (the least pixels)
Quality: Fine, Normal, Economy
Color: Normal, Vivid, Sepia, B/W
Sharpness: Hard, Normal, Soft
Only the more popular options are highlighted here, there are other options under Menu that you may choose to experiment with.

7. Transferring Files to the Computer (No special software required for this process!)
Connect one end of the USB cable to your computer and the other to the camera
On the camera:
Turn on the camera
If the USB screen does not display
automatically press the Set/Display Button
Press Set on the camera
On the computer:
On the computer double-click the My Computer Icon
Double-click Removable Disk
Double-click the DCIM folder
Double-click to open the 100SANPH folder
Copy and paste the pictures from the folder to the location you would like the pictures to be saved
Delete the pictures in Removable Disk folder

8. Troubleshooting Camera will not turn on Camera will not take pictures
Batteries are not loaded correctly, check battery position
Batteries are dead, replace batteries
Camera will not take pictures
Be sure you are pressing the Shutter Button all the way down
Be sure that the memory (internal or external) is not full
The flash is charging, wait until the status LED stops blinking
Make sure the memory card is not locked (see Slide 3)
Camera will not focus
The lens is dirty, gently clean the lens
The distance to the subject is too small, get further away
Files cannot be deleted
Be sure both the file and the memory card are not write protected or locked
Cannot download images
Be sure you have enough disk space on the computer to download new images
Be sure the camera is on (if it will not turn on see the tip and solutions above)

9. Sources
Photo of camera S880P-R-3.jpg
Manual drawings taken from Sanyo Instruction Manual pages: EN-11, EN-12, EN-15, EN-34
Laser Dogs
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Toy Camera
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