| Introduction
Controls
Adjustment of Eye Relief for Eyeglass Wearers
Adjusting the Eyepieces
Focusing the Binoculars
Camera Options
Taking a Picture
Using the Self Timer and Capture Mode
Erasing and Deleting Pictures
The Meade CaptureView is an 8 x 22 mm full-featured binocular integrated with a digital camera that requires no film to take pictures.
Important Note:
Failure to remove batteries will result in lost pictures and dead batteries after several days of CaptureView storage, even after downloading pictures and deleting them from CaptureView's memory. Remove batteries when not using the camera.
- Fully functional binoculars.
- Take pictures and view them on your PC.
- Transfer pictures to your PC for easy printing, editing, enhancing and manipulating.
- E-mail pictures to your friends and family.
- LCD display panel indicates capture status for ease in selecting and performing desired operations.
- Take pictures in indoor or outdoor lighting.
- Auto power off to conserve battery life.
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For best results when viewing an object while wearing eyeglasses, fold down the rubber eyecups and place them against your glasses.
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The distance between your eyes is usually different than the distance between another person's eyes. This distance is known as the interpupillary distance, or IPD. Adjustment of your personal IPD is an important step in the proper use of your CaptureView binocular.
- Hold CaptureView up to your face in the normal viewing position, using both hands to hold each barrel firmly.
- Pull the barrels apart or push the barrels together until you see a single circular field with both of your eyes (see illustration, below).
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- Set the Diopter Knob on the underside of the camera at zero.
- Look at an object that is approximately 100 feet (30 meters) away.
- With your hand, cover the right Objective Lens so that you will be looking through with your left eye.
- Rotate the Center Focus Knob until the object that you are viewing with your left eye is sharp and clear. At this point, the object is in focus.
- Cover the left Objective Lens so that you will be looking through with your right eye only.
- While looking at the object, rotate the Diopter Knob until the object you see with your right eye is sharp and clear. At this point, the object is in focus.
- Now, with a turn of the Center Focus Knob, both far and near objects can easily be brought into focus.
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Before performing any operations with CaptureView, select a resolution: VHI or LO.
1. Press the Power/Mode Button (left button) until the desired mode (shown below) displays in the LCD.
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1. Default Setting. |
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2. Super High Resolution (640x480) Mode (VHI). CaptureView will store up to 45 images. |
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3. Lo resolution (320x240) Mode (LO). CaptureView will store up to 100 images. |
2. Press the Shutter/Set Button (right button).
After a resolution has been selected, you may choose any of the additional options. If you are in VHI resolution, the additional options selected will also be in VHI resolution mode.
Other Options
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1. Outdoors Capture Mode (most common setting). |
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2. Indoors Capture Mode (60 Hz, United States). |
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3. Self-timer in Still Capture Mode with 10 second delay. |
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4. Erase All Images Mode. |
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5. Erase Last Picture Mode. |
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6. PC Camera Mode - shows when CaptureView is connected to your computer with the supplied USB cable. |
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- Press the Power/Mode Button (left button) to turn on the camera.
- Select a camera mode by pressing the Power/Mode Button (left button) repeatedly to cycle through the modes. When you use the Shutter/Set Button (right button) to select a mode, a beep will sound to confirm the selection. The mode selected will show on the LCD.
- Sight on a target through CaptureView.
- Hold CaptureView steady and press the Shutter/Set Button (right button). A beep sounds to confirm that a picture was taken.
- The counter in the LCD increases by one (the 000 would become 001, for example).
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The self-timer allows a 10 second delay before snapping the shutter.
- Press the Power/Mode Button (left button) until the self-timer option displays. HVC or LVC (high or low resolution) will appear on the display.
- Press and release the Shutter/Set Button (right button). The LCD blinks for 10 seconds.
- CaptureView beeps when the picture has been taken.
- The counter in the LCD increases by one (the 000 would become 001, for example).
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When the CaptureView is full, the LCD displays FULL and you are prevented from taking any more pictures until you have downloaded your images or erased pictures using the EAL or E01 options.
Erasing One Picture
- If you would like to erase one picture, continually press the Power/Mode Button (left button) until E01 appears on the display.
- Select this option by pressing the Shutter/Set Button (right button). This will erase the last picture taken.
Erasing all Pictures
- After the camera's memory is full, continually press the Power/Mode Button (left button) until EAL appears on the display.
- Select this option by pressing the Shutter/Set Button (right button). This will erase all the pictures in the memory.
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