E10520 First Edition August 2015 ZenFlash Camera Software Manual
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Contents About Your ZenFlash Camera.................................................................................4 Features............................................................................................................................... 4 1. Camera Home Screen.......................................................................................5 1.1 Right Side.................................................................................................................. 5 1.2 Left Side.
About Your ZenFlash Camera The ZenFlash Camera is a custom designed professional camera application for mobile devices. When paired together with the ZenFlash Xenon Flash, it provides a photography experience like no other. To photographers and enthusiasts, this camera application allows you to capture photos with amazing quality and achieve astounding results. The only restriction now is your imagination and creativity! Features • Connect the ZenFlash for a photography experience rivaling a DSLR.
1. Camera Home Screen Camera Live View: This is where you interact with the camera. Compose your photo and adjust the settings of your camera. 1.1 Right Side Browse Photos: View recently taken photos. Capture: Virtual capture button. Flash Scenario Mode: Tap to select flash scenario. This function is disabled when a Zenflash is not connected. Touch Focus: Tap anywhere on the screen to automatically focus on the area touched.
1.2 Left Side Flash Mode: You can set the flash mode, including Auto Flash, Flash and No Flash. Auto Flash: The app fires flash depending on ambient light conditions. Flash: Forces flash. No Flash: Disables flash. NOTE: If your phone does not have a built-in flash, the flash mode icon will not appear. Basic Settings: Tap to adjust basic settings.
2. Basic Settings Tap on the bottom left of the camera home screen to set basic settings. 2.1 Mute Turn off the focus and shutter sound. 2.2 Timing Set the timer for delayed photo. Choose from 5 or 10 second delay. 2.3 Burst Mode Capture multiple photos in a short period of time. Set Burst Mode on the camera home screen, ZenFlash Camera will and tap automatically capture multiple photos and save the photos sequentially in the buffer memory. Set 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 photos captured.
2.5 Advanced Settings • Photo Quality: Choose the photo quality from three options; Basic, Fine or Hyperfine. • Photo Aspect Ratio: Set different resolutions for 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios. • Storage Location: Choose from Default Path and Internal Storage Path, Default Path saves the captured photos to default location automatically; Internal Storage Path will save photos captured to a selected location. • Composition Grid: Enable composition grid and select between Golden Section or Sudoku Section.
3. ZenFlash Xenon Flash 3.1 Installing the ZenFlash 1. Ensure the photodiode of the ZenFlash (red circle) and the LED flash of the phone (purple circle) is placed in a straight line. 2. The distance between the two circles has to be no more than 4cm (indicated by blue line) for successful use of the ZenFlash. 3. Ensure the ZenFlash does not block the camera when installing to ensure your photos have the best results. 3.
Select ZenFlash Camera, and a welcome screen will appear when successfully connected, followed by the Flash Scenario Mode selection menu. You can select between Low Noise Mode and Night Backlight Mode (you may reselect at a later stage), or tap anywhere else on the screen to hide the selection menu and enter the Camera Home Screen.
3.3 Shooting with ZenFlash 3.3.1 Normal Shooting Tap to capture an image. After capturing a photo, the ZenFlash will need a short time to recover power and the capture icon will become , the icon will slowly become more visible as the ZenFlash opaque recovers power. During this time, the capture icon will be disabled, once and then you power has been recovered, the icon will change to may capture another photo. 3.3.2 Burst Mode Tap and set Burst Mode, then tap to shoot multiple photos.
3.4 Flash Mode Setting Zenflash Camera allows you to turn the ZenFlash on or off, and Flash Scenario Mode. 1. Tap in the bottom left corner to switch between No Flash and Manual Flash. No Flash: Disables the ZenFlash. Manual Flash (default): You can manually set the flash parameters. 2. Tap on the bottom left to choose flash scenario modes. Low Noise Mode: For optimal results in a dark, indoor enviroment. Night Backlight Mode: For optimal results in an outdoor environment at night. 3.
5. The Target and Scene control bar will both be displayed on the camera home screen under Night Backlight Mode. You can adjust the brightness for both the target and the scene. The smaller the number for the scene control bar the darker the scene, the bigger the number, the brighter the scene will be. 6. In Night Backlight Mode, different scene values will have different target values. The values are shown below: - When Scene value 50 is selected, the target values are 0.5, 1.0, 1.
3.5 Advanced Settings with ZenFlash Connected In order to ensure the quality of images captured using the ZenFlash, the app will disable some setting options. Advanced Settings when using the ZenFlash and without the ZenFlash will result in different setting options. Photo Aspect Ratio: Only high brightness level and ratio options available, some options will be disabled. Other settings remain unchanged. 3.
