Using SMART Document Camera

Your SMART Document Camera integrates with SMART Notebook software, enabling you to control your document camera from your computer or from a SMART Board interactive whiteboard or display. You can display objects, capture an image and your annotations on an image to a SMART Notebook page, zoom, focus and adjust brightness settings.

To open a SMART Document Camera window

1. Connect your SMART Document Camera to your computer and turn on the document camera.

2. Place the object or objects you want to display under the camera.

3. Press SMART Document Camera .

   A SMART Document Camera window appears.

   

   Note 

   Alternatively, you can open the SMART Document Camera window by pressing Capture on the SMART Document Camera control panel.

4. Do any of the following:

   • Press Zoom In to zoom in.

   • Press Zoom Out to zoom out.

   • Press Increase Brightness to brighten the image.

   • Press Decrease Brightness to darken the image.

   • Press Focus In or Focus Out to change the focus manually.

   • Press Autofocus to change the focus automatically.

5. Press Close when you’re done.

To convert the image

1. Open a SMART Document Camera window.

2. Press Additional Settings .

   Note 

   The Additional Settings button appears only if you’re using a SMART Document Camera 330.

3. Do any of the following:

   • Select Rotate 180 Degrees to rotate the image 180°.

   • Select Convert to Color to convert a black and white image to color.

   • Select Convert to Black and White to convert a color image to black and white.

   • Select Convert to Positive to convert a negative image to positive.

   • Select Convert to Negative to convert a positive image to negative.

To use Microscope mode

1. Open a SMART Document Camera window.

2. Press Additional Settings , and then select Start Microscope Mode.

   Note 

   The Additional Settings button appears only if you’re using a SMART Document Camera 330.

3. When you’re done, press Additional Settings , and then select Stop Microscope Mode.

To take a screen capture

1. Open a SMART Document Camera window.

2. Press Capture and Close to insert a screen capture on the current page and close the window.

   OR

   Press Capture to New Page to insert a screen capture on a new page and keep the window open.

To take a series of screen captures

1. Open a SMART Document Camera window.

2. Press Capture with Time-Lapse , and then select a period of time. (For example, if you want to take a screen capture every 15 seconds, select 15 Seconds.)

3. Press when you’re done.

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