This is a quick listing of a few of the screens shown and it applies to
what you see with the VP6210 at firmware level 0A-1.1.8 (I will redo this page
when I have tested V1.2.2 firmware and if there's any significant changes to
screens). Ooops, later V1.2.2 withdrawn and
V1.2.1 back on site. I emailed Vosonic and V1.2.3 is "coming soon".
This page will get an overhaul when V1.2.3 is eventually available.
My image grabbing setup is a bit basic so the quality is about
only what you would see on an average TV screen. More details of more screens to come later.
Notes
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Screens that you see
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| Turn on the VP6210 by holding the power button for 2
seconds, the row of blocks growing across the bottom show the system load progress. |
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| The default Icon View is shown here but with a black background
that I placed in the VP6210 to get better contrast. Normally the Vosonic splash
screen appears as background and that makes the screens too busy.
To get the black background, make an image file of 640x480 (or any
size) using an editor and make it black. Or take a black picture by leaving the lens cap on.
Load that as an image to the VP6210 by Windows Explorer or via a memory
card and display
it full screen and then use the Menu function to make it the background.
The background image then becomes a new file on the disk and the original
can be removed. |
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| Use the up/down/left/right cursor buttons to select a
folder, in this case I have moved it to the Options function. Press the
'tick' button, often called the 'SEL' button in Vosonic literature, and
the screens below are available. |
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| These are the options screens where you get to see how the
VP6210 is set up or you can fiddle adjustments from these screens. Use the
cursor up/down to select a function, then use the +/- zoom/volume buttons to select a
setting for that function, if it is an adjustable item.
The copy speeds of hard drive and CF card can be changed which may suit
some faster CF cards, experiments need to be done by you to prove what
works and what doesn't. It's safe to leave it at the Normal setting for
most cases.
The Format function will wipe all data from the drive and put the
necessary folders in the right places, it is very quick. Shutdown timer turns
off the unit to save power, it can be adjusted to what you like.
Note: currently shows screen as at v1.1.8, from V 1.2.0 onwards the
Format Disk is found by selecting the hard drive or card and then use
Menu. |
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| These other two Function screens are reached by pressing the
Menu button to slew sideways between the choices of System/Display/Version.
Here you can set the file view mode to List or Icon or let it do its
own thing, power saving type functions like Screen Saver and Backlight can
be changed, the TV can be swapped between PAL and NTSC (try both) and the
cursor colour changed which may help if you have set a dodgy coloured
background. |
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| Here's where I prove that my VP6210 is at 0A-1.1.8. There's
no mention of the firmware level for the card reader side of things, that
can only be seen by running the special program found in the firmware
upgrade section. |
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| OK, let's try and get some stuff from a camera card.
Plug in the card, in this case a CF card, the power can be on or off
while doing this. It takes a few seconds for the card to be recognised. |
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| Then the card was identified as being in the CF/MD slot and
an icon appears. |
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| Use the cursor buttons to go to the card and then press
Menu. From V1.2.2 if a card is inserted or the unit turned on after a card
is inserted then the card is selected automatically and a short menu also
appears automatically to save much button pressing. New screens here soon
to show it the way it really is now. |
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| The Menu options appear so cursor down to the Full Backup
item (preferred by me as it keeps the file names intact). When the cursor
is on the Full Backup item (that screen not captured here) then press the
'tick' button. |
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| It needs reassurance that you really want to do a backup.
'Tick' to accept 'yes'. |
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| Backup to the Backup folder in progress.... maybe about 5
minutes per gig, but not timed by me lately as I only have small cards. |
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| At the end of the transfer the Copy Speed is shown. This happens to be an NCP branded card and someone said it is
equivalent to a 40x card. The hard drive type will also affect transfer
speed so you will see differences from unit to unit using the same memory
card.
Take the card out when finished, the power can be on or off. |
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| Now to go looking for those pictures....
If necessary use the 'ESC' key a few times to get back up to the top
display, and then cursor to the Backup folder. This is where Photo Backup
and Full Backup put their files. In my example I used Full Backup so
there's the usual sub-folders to wade through as in the next couple of
screens. Use 'tick' (SEL) button to advance through the screens and ESC to
go back up the folders towards the top.
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| Cursor across and down as necessary to select the folder
that contains your card information, it will be the highest numbered
according to the card type used. Here I have one SD card loaded and two CF
cards. Press 'tick' button.. |
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| Keep pressing that 'tick' button to get down and down
through the folders (which is an exact copy of the way the data is put on
the memory card by the camera if you use the Full Backup method from the
card). |
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| My wife's camera is a Pentax, and some of her files were
copied to my card for other reasons, I'll select my Olympus camera. Press 'tick' button again. |
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| At last the thumbnails, use cursor up/down/left/right
buttons to select an image. This is Icon View, a List View would show just
file names. Lots of junk stuff here, but there's one of the Sydney Opera
House. |
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Click 'tick' to make the selected picture go full screen, I must have
bounced the 'tick' key because it showed upside down. Rotate any full
screen image by repeatedly pressing the 'tick' button.
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| Now it's right way up as it should have been.
Note the battery indicator in the bottom right corner, it is different
some of the time in these screen grabs as I had the unit on charge and it does
an empty-to-full movement all the time while it is still charging up. |
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| Use the +/- buttons to zoom in/out, this image is blurry
mainly due to the way it was captured using a Video to USB MPEG2 movie
maker, then using PowerDVD to grab frames from the MPEG2 file, then
jpegging a bit to reduce load times for you, so the quality here is dodgy,
but enough to see that I didn't have any camera shake. The zoom ratio of 4x
shown is related to the 0.50x ratio above so the total
zoom of the image is really 8x in this case, enough to see problems
even on the tiny VP6210 LCD.
Note that the hard drive got bored and went to sleep.
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| Here's the image itself cropped from the PC file after
loading from the VP6210 to the PC. A bit of quality loss due to jpeg but
it means that the image above it is not a lot worse despite the dreadful
amount of processing to get it from the VP6210 screen onto this page. Note
that the aspect ratio seems to be fiddled in the VP6210 display. This one
is a 345 x 242 pixel crop out of a 5 megapixel image from an Olympus
C-5060. |
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| Now use the 'ESC' key a number of times to get back up to the
top menu and press the Menu button to show this menu and then the 'tick'
button to set it to List View. |
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| The List View shows the hard drive capacity and the remaining
space. I named my drive "6210 60g" so I would recognise the
drive when it was connected to a PC.
Use Windows Explorer and right click
on the drive and then click on Properties to enable renaming the drive.
You can name it anything but the first 8 letters only are shown.
As I press the power button for two seconds, the powering off message
appears briefly.
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| In the meantime, play with all the buttons and
discover all the ins and outs of the menus, the more you play the more you
get used to where to press the proper button to get the result you want,
this is more important under stress and also trying to load cards in dim
light. Try pressing the Menu button wherever you are to see what the possibilities
are, get out of the menus by pressing the ESC button.
This section of screen grabs will expand later as I find time to fiddle
and try all functions, and also I have to check if I have enough web space
left to contain it all here. |