Sony Cyber-shot W50 Installation guide

Sony Cyber-shot W50 Basics

Introduction

With the Sony Cyber-shot W50 digital camera you can add images and short

digital video clips with sound to your projects, multimedia presentations, and

Internet pages* easily.

Camera Basics

Parts of the Camera

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W50 digital camera has a few basic parts including a

lens, an image sensor, a memory card to hold images and video clips, battery,

and a LCD (liquid crystal display) to help you frame your subject.

1. Shutter button

2. Zoom W/T Lever

3. Finder window

4. Lens

5. POWER button

6. Microphone

7. Flash

8. Self-timer lamp

*Reminder: Before any PISD student’s name, picture, voice or verbal statement, or work can be used on a school’s

Internet page(s), the PISD’s Publications, Video, Internet Consent and Release Agreement must be signed by their

parent/guardian and be on file at the campus. This form is available from http://k-12.pisd.edu/techs/release.htm.

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1. AE/AF Lamp / Self timer lamp 12. Hook for wrist strap

2. Flash charging lamp/ Record lamp 13. Control button

3. Speaker 14. Image size / Delete button

4. Finder 15. Tripod receptacle

5. LCD screen 16. Battery / Memory stick cover

6. Screen display switch 17. Access lamp

7. MENU button 18. “Memory Stick Duo” slot

8. PLAYBACK button 19. Battery insertion slot

9. DC IN jack 20. Battery eject lever

10. DC IN jack cover 21. Multi-connector

11. Mode dial 13. Control button

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Recording Still Images

1. Press the POWER button.

2. Turn the mode dial to Auto Adjust Mode. This allows easy shooting with the

settings automatically adjusted for you.

3. Press and hold the Shutter Button halfway down and check the image in

the LCD display. The camera will automatically adjust. Once a green dot

appears in the display, the camera has finished adjusting and the shutter button

should be pressed all the way down.

4. The image is saved to a memory card inside of the camera.

5. To change the image quality (before taking the picture) push the

button on the camera. A digital image is made up of a collection of small dots

called pixels. If it contains a large number of pixels, the picture becomes large, it

takes up more memory, and the image is displayed in fine detail. Although you

cannot see the differences on the screen of the camera, the fine detail and data

processing time differ when the image is printed or displayed on a computer

screen.

Image Size Usage Guidelines

6M (2816 X 2112) Up to 8”X10” print

3M (2048 X 1536) Up to 5”X7” print

2M (1632 X 1224) Up to 4”X6” print

VGA (640 X 480) For E-mail

16:9 (1920 X 1080)

Larger

Smaller Display on HDTV or

Widescreen TV

Recording Video Clips

1. Press the POWER button.

2. Turn the mode dial to Video Mode.

3. Press the shutter button fully down and recording will begin.

4. To stop recording, press the shutter button fully down again.

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The table represents video recording times using various settings:

Capacity

Size

32MB/

Internal

memory 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB

640 (Fine) - - - 0:02:50 0:06:00 0:12:20 0:25:10

640

(Standard) 0:01:20 0:02:

50 0:05:50 0:10:40 0:21:40 0:44:20 1:31:00

160 0:22:40 0:45:

30 1:31:30 2:51:20 5:47:00 11:44:20 24:18:20

To change the video quality (before taking the video) push the button on

the camera.

Movie Image Size Frames/Second Usage Guidelines

640 (Fine) (640 X 480) Approx. 30 TV (high quality)

640 (Standard) (640 X 480) Approx .17 TV (standard quality)

160 (160 X 112) Approx. 8 For E-mail

On-screen Menus

Many of the cameras features are accessed using menu items.

1. Press the MENU button on the camera to display the menu.

2. Select the desired menu item with on the control button. If the desired

item is invisible, keep pressing until the item appears on the screen.

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3. Select the setting with . The setting you select is zoomed and set.

4. Press MENU to turn off the menu.

Please note that menu items vary depending on the mode dial position. See the

table below for available menus.

Working with Files

Viewing Images and Video Clips

1. Press the playback button on the camera.

2. Select an image or video clip using on the control button.

3. To play a video clip, push .

Deleting Files

1. Display the image or video clip you want to delete and press .

2. Select DELETE with , then press .

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Saving Files to the Computer

1. Press to turn on the camera.

2. Connect the camera to the computer’s USB port using the multi-use cable.

Note: When the connection is established for the first time, your computer

automatically runs a program to recognize the camera.

3. Start an appropriate editing application for the media you will be working with.

For example, you could use ImageBlender or Microsoft Picture Manager to work

with your still images and Adobe Premiere Elements or Windows Movie Maker to

work with video clips. Go to File > Open and navigate to the drive that says

Sony Memory Stick.

•Files are kept in the DCIM folder.

•Image files have the .jpg extension.

•Video clips have the .mpg extension.

•It is recommended that you move your files to another drive (off of the

camera) by using File > Save As and selecting a folder on your

computer.

•It is helpful to create a new folder on your computer to store your files.

Name the folder something that reminds you of what the files are from.

•A good habit is to name a folder of images or video clips with the date

included, i.e., “06-15-06-fieldtirip.”

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