SUMMARY

• Connect the shutter control output to the camera's 2.5 mm remote control socket.
• Turn on the camera.
• Frame and focus on the subject.
• Slide the Auto Focus (AF) switch on the camera lens to Manual Focus (MF).
  
• Turn off the camera's LCD display to save power.
• Turn on the camera timer. The LED will glow RED to indicate "set" mode.
• Use the button to enter the desired shooting interval in seconds (see Examples below).
• Press and hold the button for 1 second to enter "shoot" mode. The RED LED will extinguish to indicate "shoot" mode. The first photo will be taken immediately upon entering "shoot" mode and at each selected interval thereafter. The LED will briefly glow GREEN when each photograph is taken.
• When the camera has taken enough shots, upload all the pictures from the camera to a directory on your PC. The easiest way to convert a bunch of JPG pictures into a movie is to use the Linux mencoder program. For example, if your pictures are called xxx.jpg, then to convert a series of portrait shots use:
  
  mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25:type=jpg -o yourmovie.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=720:480,rotate=2
  
  To convert a series of landscape shots use:
  
  mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25:type=jpg -o yourmovie.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=720:480
  

EXAMPLES

• To select a shooting interval of 120 seconds:
• Turn on the camera timer -> high/low beep (means READY)
•   RED light on = "set" mode
• To enter the first digit (1):
•   Short press -> low beep (means 0)
•   Short press -> high beep (means +1)
•   Wait for more than 1 second -> high/low beep (means OK)
•   Interval now = 1 second
• To enter the next digit (2):
•   Short press -> low beep (means 0)
•   Short press -> high beep (means +1)
•   Short press -> high beep (means +1)
•   Wait for more than 1 second -> high/low beep (means OK)
•   Interval now = 12 seconds
• To enter the next digit (0):
•   Short press -> low beep (means 0)
•   Wait for more than 1 second -> high/low beep (means OK)
•   Interval now = 120 seconds
• To exit "set" mode and enter "shoot" mode:
•   Long press -> high beep, RED light off = "shoot" mode.
  
  

• To exit "shoot" mode and set a different shooting interval:

• Short press -> high/low beep means "OK", RED light on = "set" mode entered.
• Enter a new shooting interval as shown above

• To suspend shooting and resume with the same interval later:

• - Short press -> high/low beep means "OK", RED light on = "set" mode entered.
• - Wait until you want to resume shooting (finish beer etc)
• - Long press -> high beep for every second that the button is held down. You can use this audible timing signal to synchronise with your watch in order to resume shooting at a particular time.
• - Release button -> no beep, RED light off = "shoot" mode.
  
  
• To use the shooting interval that you last set:
• - Turn on the camera timer -> high/low beep (means READY)
  
• RED light on = "set" mode
• - Long press -> high beep, RED light off = "shoot" mode entered using the last set interval. The last interval you set is remembered in the onboard EEPROM across power ups.

NOTES

• If when setting an interval you overshoot the digit you wanted just keep doing short button presses until you hear a low beep (which means 0) and begin counting each subsequent press until you reach the desired digit.
• If you forget where you are up to when setting an interval, simply turn the camera timer off and on and begin setting the interval again. Alternatively, enter "shoot" mode (long press) and then enter "set" mode again (long press).
• If you attempt to enter "shoot" mode with a shooting interval of 0, you will hear three low beeps to indicate that this is invalid and you will remain in "set" mode (RED light on).
• No attempt is made to validate the interval you enter. For example, if you enter 99999, which is greater than the maximum of 65535, then interval set will be some number between 0 and 65535 - all of which will be accepted but perhaps not what you expected.
• The last shooting interval that you use is remembered in the onboard EEPROM across power ups - so if you have a favourite shooting interval then you need only set it once.