User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- KODAK EASYSHARE Z981 Digital Camera
- Product features
- Table of contents
- Setting up your camera
- Taking pictures/videos
- Taking pictures in Smart Capture mode
- Taking a video
- Adjusting LCD brightness
- Capture modes
- Using the zoom
- Using the flash
- Using the Drive button
- Using the Focus button
- Taking panoramic pictures
- P, A, S, and M modes
- Using exposure compensation to adjust brightness
- Using the histogram to view picture brightness
- Understanding the picture-taking icons
- Know when your batteries need charging
- Sharing and tagging pictures
- Reviewing and editing
- Reviewing pictures/videos
- Deleting pictures/videos
- Viewing pictures/videos in different ways
- A smarter way to find your pictures
- Understanding the review icons
- Creating a multimedia slide show
- Using the menu button in review
- Selecting multiple pictures/videos
- Cropping pictures
- Copying pictures/videos
- Using KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology
- Using the RAW Develop feature
- Editing videos
- Doing more with your camera
- Transferring, printing pictures
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix
- Index

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6 Transferring, printing pictures
Transferring pictures to your computer
Download KODAK Software—so it’s easy to transfer and share pictures and videos.
NOTE: You can also use a card reader to transfer your pictures/videos.
Download KODAK Software later www.kodak.com/go/camerasw
To use this camera on more than one computer,
use the camera’s Reset Startup Application feature
See page 45
Turn on the camera.
3
1 Turn off the camera.
After the software is installed, follow
the prompts to transfer pictures and
videos to your computer.
2
* If the downloader does not run, find and launch it:
• WINDOWS OS: in My Computer
• MAC OS: on your Desktop
Use the KODAK Camera
USB Cable, U-8 to connect
camera to computer.
(Use only the cable
included with this
camera!)
Make sure the computer is connected to the
Internet. When you connect the camera to the
computer, the KODAK Software Downloader
automatically runs. Follow the prompts to
download and install KODAK Software.*










