VT300 User’s Guide Digital Portable Microscope Version 1.
Contents 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3. 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 4. Products Introduction ...................................... 3 Packing Contents ................................... 3 Functions of Microscope........................ 3 Operation of Microscope ....................... 6 Microscope Programming Functions ..... 8 External Interfaces of Microscope ....... 25 Program Installation ...................................... 28 Insert Installation CD (Step 1) .............
.1 4.2 4.3 Maintenance ......................................... 34 Product Sizes........................................ 35 Safety Instructions ...............................
1. Products Introduction 1.1 Packing Contents Objects packed inside the box include one host and ten fittings as follows. Please charge the Li-ion battery for 6 to 8 hours for the first time. Name Qty Name Qty Host of Portable 1 Li-ion Battery 1 Microscope USB1.1Transmission 1 User‟s Guide 1 Line Adaptor 1 Installation CD 1 Protection Bag 1 Wrist Strap 1 Cleaning Cloth 1 Supporter 1 Calibrator 1 1.2 Functions of Microscope Microscope appearance is composed of buttons, transmission and storage interfaces.
[please refer to item (2) of Section 1.4]. In Video REC mode [please refer to item (3) of Section 1.4], the button is used to start/stop recording video. (2) Zoom Out : the button is applied to zoom out digital image [please refer to (F)and (G) of item (1) of Section 1.4]. (3) Zoom In : the button is applied to zoom in digital image. (4) Charging Display Light : The red light is to show the charging status if it is on.
play mode the button is used for stop playing video. In other modes, it is used for choosing „up‟. (8) Select „right ‟ button: Press the button for 2 seconds to show Crossing Alignment in the center of the LCD Display. Or the button is used to next sequent „right‟ function. (9) Diminishing-Brightness of Lights / : the button is used to decrease brightness of illumination. Press the button for 2 seconds to switch to the Scene mode. [please refer to ( c ) of item (1) of Section 1.4].
(16) Lens: the lens is applied to photography. (17) Battery Container: Where is the Li-ion battery put. [please refer to item (5) of Section 1.5]. (18) RESET Hole: in case the machine stops (which means no reaction in the image by pressing any button), insert slender clip into the hole to trigger the RESET button. (19) USB Connection Port: the port is applied to connect USB device to computer [please refer to item (6) of Section 1.4 and item (1) of Section 1.5].
First, please choose long shot or flush-way shot, then adjust the focus button. (1) Focus way: the focus dial is labeled to indicate the magnification amount (10x, 40x, and long shot). Rotate the wheel of focus to position (A) is for long shot, to (B) is low optical magnification (10x), and to (C)is High optical magnification (40x). Adjust photograph distance (height) to get one to ten times of magnification consecutively.
(3) Long Shot: Rotate the Focus dial next to 10X‟s right side, then slightly tuning so that to get the best image. Photography is same as the way of camera and scene mode is selectable. [please refer to (B) of item (1) of Section 1.4]. 1.4 Microscope Programming Functions There are 8 function modes in the programming interface. Press the Function Menu /Delete button to switch functional modes in the Camera.
(1) Camera : Observation mode. Please refer to the above image. Small icons are used to represent function modes. (A) Mode : the machine is in observing mode. (B) Scene Mode : Press the button for a long time to switch the six scene modes and select the modes by using buttons of / / / .
(B-1) : Automatic mode(default). (B-2) :Camera mode. LED will turn off automatically in this mode. (B-3) : White mode, for example, the observed articles made of shining materials. (B-4) : Grey mode, for example, the observed articles with light colors. (B-5) : Dark Grey mode, for example, the observed articles with dark colors. (B-6) : Black mode, for example, the observed articles with dark black.
Normal Grey Scale : shows by grey scale to simplify and easily identify images. Reversed-phase : shows by complementary colors to strengthen faint-colored or over-lighted image. Relief : Outstanding show the edge and filter out non-marked image. : general model without any special effect. (D) Brightness of Lights : press and adjust brightness of lights in the observing model.
to charging can be provided by USB power supply device or USB connection port of computer. The following images are presented while charging USB Source : the graphic will be presented under two circumstances. One is insert USB power supply without using battery, and the other is insert USB source and use full-charged. (F) Optical Digital Magnification magnification rate. : represents current The optical zooming rate will be changed while adjusting the black indicator on the wheel of Focus.
Rate 35x 40x 45 47x Note: this formula is for 0-7 stages. Adjust optical magnification to 42 times, and the total magnification can be 196 times. Rates at different stages as follows: 42x optical rate [42* (1+0.5*stage)] Stage 1 2 3 4 Rate 63x 84x 105x 126x Stage 5 6 7 8 Rate 147x 168x 189x 196x Note: this formula is for 0-7 stages.
(I) Crossing Alignment : Press the button for a long time to display the sign of crossing alignment, and press it again to shut down the sign. Use the sign to show the position in which the lens of machine is located and make the alignment more conveniently in observation . (J) Scale: Press the button (Confirmation button) for a long time to display the scale, and press it long time again to shut down the scale. Press the button of without releasing to select different scales.
Scale 29.14 25.50 22.66 21.52 Scales of Digital Magnification in 42x Optical Rates Rate 42x 63x 84x 105x 126x Scale 24.00 16.00 12.00 9.600 8.000 Rate 147x 168x 189x 196x Scale 6.857 6.000 5.330 5.120 The taken photo file name shall note the magnification size based on the photo taken situation. Ex: “IMG0001_L1.JPG”, the “L” means optical low magnification. “1” means the stage of digital enlargement. “IMG0001_H8.JPG”, the “H” means optical high magnification, “8” means the stage of digital enlargement.
Stage 5 6 7 8 Horizontal 0.36 0.31 0.28 0.27 Vertical 0.27 0.23 0.21 0.20 The photo which taken under contacted observation can do measurement from “Application Program”. The taken photo image quality will decide the accuracy on measurement. (If the taken photo is not clear or missing focus, then the measurement might not be correct.) It is suggested to key in all values from the look-up table before start measurement. To begin measurement, please open AP and choose “Measurement mode” see as below fig.
View taken photo in the window. The series number of the current photo is shown at the upper left. Press button to go next photo. Press button to go previous photo. It can enlarge and shrink the viewing photo by & button. After it enlarges the photo, it can move the photo up, down, left & right through / / / . Press button to return the original window status, then it can allow to swift next photo. (K) Comparison mode：Press button for 10 seconds under preview mode, it can enter Comparison mode.
Under browsing photo, press for 10 seconds, it can enter Comparison mode. See below illustration. At the moment, all buttons are same function but only allow to control the right window. Press button to swift next photo and press to return the preview photo. Press & button and move the photo slightly toward left or right. (2) Play : Please refer to below following for a description the Video Play mode.
(A) Open File : Press the button of (Camera) in the mode of Video Play to enter the interface of file selection. Select the demanded file as in the following image. After selection, press the button of to play. Use buttons of and to select items in the interface (such as file type, file slot, file folder and file). Use buttons of and to select options in the interface.
(A-1) File Type: including .3gp and.mp4. Choose all means all types of files are selected. (A-2) File Folder is in Slot C. (A-3) File Folder means the position in which the file is selected. (A-4) File means to select the file that to be opened. (B) Stop : Press the button of to stop playing video. (C) Play : After selecting file, press the button of (Confirmation) to play the video, and the sign of will be changed to (pause). Press the button of (Confirmation) to pause playing.
(A) Current Mode : After entering Video REC mode, the mark of Current Mode showed as representing video is recording. Press the button to record video, and the Current Mode turns to be from . (B) Recording Time: After recording, recording time will be counted in second. Each file can be recorded maximum one hour. (4) Album : a model to browse photos by listing all shot pictures. Please refer to the following image. Use buttons of , , and to select images and press the button to open it in full screen.
(5) USB Disk : VT300 has its internal memory(2G), save files as USB storage device directly to C Slot. For transmission files to PC, please refer to item (1) of Section 1.5 and the following image. (A) Refer to section 1.5.5 to connect to computer. (B) Access “USB disk” mode to operate by microscope.
(C) “Removable disk” window will pop up; or enter “my computer”, an device of “removable disk” is shown on the screen. (6) PC Cam : Mode of computer camera (PC Camera). In this mode, the machine can be linked to the computer as internet camera or microscope camera. Before using, please link the USB transmission line and install driver program in the computer for correct linkage. For program installation, please refer to Section 2. The mode is as follows: (A) Refer to section 1.5.5 to connect to computer.
functions for selection according to your own orientation. Please refer to the following setting image. Press buttons of , , and to select and adjust and to confirm the setting. System will be back to the image of system setting model after confirmation. Press button (Comfirmation button) to quit the model. (A) Date/Time : Setup Date and Time on the device. (B) Timestamp : To decide to save Date/Time on the bottom left of the image.
VID is for storing videos, and DSC is for storing photos. (8) About : the model to check relevant information of the product. Press button (Confirmation button) to quit the model. (9) Date:(YYYY-MM-DD) ：Display the system date. (10) Time:(HH:MM:SS) ：Display the system time. 1.5 External Interfaces of Microscope The machine contains many external interfaces.
accessories. Please use accessories provided together with the machine including transmission line, battery, etc. Please do not use other accessories, as this may cause severe damage or incompatible to the machine. (1) Connect USB Cable: The smaller connector end is used to connect with the machine, the larger connector end is used to connect USB port on PC. While connecting to computer, power source can also be provided besides transmitting images (PC Camera).
(3) Install Battery: remove the battery cover and input the battery by placing the written face up and complying with positive and negative poles correctly. Close battery cover finally. Please refer to the following image. (4) Install Wrist Strap: Remove battery cover. Hang the wrist strap on the hook, then close the battery cover. Please refer to the following image.
2. Program Installation For detailed program installation, please refer to the Manual setup in the Installation CD (User‟s Manual\English\Installing Operates Manual). Programs shall be installed according to the following 4 steps: 2.1 Insert Installation CD (Step 1) Insert Installation CD provided together with the product into CD-ROM Slot. The CD will be read by computer automatically, and the installation window will be displayed: 2.2 Step 2 2.3 Step 3 2.
open the Installation CD and select Autorun.ext as illustrated in the following image: If the Installation CD provided together with the product is lost or unknown damaged, please visit http://www.vitiny.com to download installation files. 2.2 Install Application Program (Step 2) Please click and select the position of Step 2. Press button of to install Application Program. 2.3 Install Driver (Step 3) Please click step 3 [Install VT300 Driver] to install the driver. 2.
6 parts about primary operation functions. For detailed contents, please refer to the Operation Instruction set in the Installation CD (User‟s Manual\English\ Application Program Operation Manual). 3.1 Video Preview Window After connecting to microscope camera, the window will show video information, videos, files, as well as operations icons and special function. 3.3 Main Menu 3.4 Main Button 3.1Video Preview Window 3.2 Image Preview Window 3.5 Files List 3.
3.3 Main Menu The Main Menu of the Application Program contains the following selections: (1) Files: choose open, save and print files. (2) Setting: includes input device, image quality, video information formats, sources and compression, as well as automatic storage, etc. (3) Windows: you can adjust sizes of video information windows and switch to the single window model. (4) Tools: open different files folders, such as BMP, JPG and AVI.
(4) Image Edition /Quit Image Edition : to enter or quit Image Edition function. After entering, tools of image edition are listed below Images Preview Window as follows: (5) Delete Image : press the button to delete image displayed in the image preview window. (6) Video REC /Stop Video REC : to record or stop recording video. Recorded video information will be displayed in Video Preview Window.
Window. (10) Quit : close the Application Program. 3.5 Files List Files List is primarily applied to list all current files contained in folders. Select BMP, JPG or AVI to view saved images/videos. 3.6 Special Functional Modules Start Application Program and connect them.
the image. Please refer to the following image for tools of Image Control Model. (4) Measurement Model : the model can be used as rulers and compasses. Further, the model can measure in the dynamic (real-time image) or static (loaded images or frozen image) images, as well as providing various measuring tools. Please refer to the following image for tools of Measurement Model. 4. Printed Notice Please read the following information before operate. 4.
(2) Avoid temperature shock: temperature shock will cause internal condensation inside the machine, for example, take the product into a warm room from cold environment. Please put the machine inside the protection bag or handbag in advance to prevent temperature shock, and avoid using the machine in an environment with over-high/low temperature. (3) Avoid collision and drop: the product might go wrong by strong collision, vibration or distortion.
Auxiliary Source LCD Memory USB Port Magnification Joint Lithium Battery USB Power Supply Device (Adaptor) Electric Consumption Size Ultra-bright white light LED x4 2.7” LCD Full color Screen Build in 2G USB2.0 Compatible Optical Zoom 1x~ 10 x (continue) and 40 x; 5 x Digital Zoom DC IN Terminal (mini USB joint) Model: NP-120; Voltage: 3.7 V AC Transformer (Output: DC 5.
in gas station. (4) In case that there is foreign body or water inside the machine, or the machine drops off, or the housing is damaged, please switch off power supply and remove battery or power supply device to avoid fire and electric shock. (5) Do not look steadily at auxiliary sources after switching on the host as it is harmful to your eyes. (6) Please use related products provided by original factory for connection. Do not use any product in connection on your own without approval of original factory.
VT300 Warranty Product No.
Please ask the distributor to fill in the name of the shop, address, purchase date and other contents and seal to protect your rights and validate one-year warranty since upon the purchase date. Contents of Warranty: The Warranty is only provided free of charge for faults caused by the manufacturing within one year since upon the purchase date. Non-warranty: 1.
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