Sinarcam Multipurpose Digital Camera Bedienungsanleitung

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Contents

What’s new in this Version

Sinarcam Installation Instruction

1. Hardware Installation

2. Software Installation

3. Tips and Tricks

Sinarcam Users Guide

1. Overview

2. Important Safeguards and Precaution

3. Limitation

4. About the Sinarcam stand alone system

5. About the Sinarcam mounted on a p2

6. About the Leaf DCB-II LV

7. About the Sinaron Digital Lenses

8. Sinar Lensboards

9. Setup the Sinarcam as a stand alone camera

10. Setup the Sinarcam on a sinar p2 view camera

11. Dust on the LCD shutter / color filters

12. What to do if dust is on the CCD or on the filter

13. How to clean the color filters

14. Live mode

15. Sinarcam Shift Adapter

16. Trouble Shooting

Sinarcam Components and Configuration

1. Components from Sinar

2. Additional components from Sinar when mounted on a Sinar p2

3. Additional components from Leaf

4. Additional components

5. Configuration Sinarcam / Stand alone

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What’s new in this version

(see also the file “Read-me” on the floppy disk containing the Sinarcam software)

Version Remarks

1.4.0

12-Jan-98 Bug removed: If film mode is selected at start-

up, the filter mode is now set as

displayed. New startup pics. New Sinar Digital Lenses added: Sinaron digital 35

mm, Sinaron digital 120 mm.

1.3.3

13-Jun-97 Automatic lens boards are supported and new lens codes for such boards

added; Aperture range of sinaron 45 mm lens corrected

1.3.2

26-Feb-97

Bug removed: Single color mode does not change after changing aperture or

exposure time. Color mode remains the same after reset of shutter

1.3.1

04-Feb-97 New lensboard codes added to the lens database

1.3

15-Jan-97 Cleaning dialog added (select Menu Setting -

> Clean Filter) Bug removed: The

aperture is now always set after start of application

1.2

14-Nov-96 Supports tri-color exposures when film mode is selected

1.1

01-Nov-96 Release Viscomm 96: selection of serial port

1.0

16-Sept-96 First release Photokina 96

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Sinarcam Installation Instruction

1. Hardware Installation

•Connect the serial cable to the modem or printer

port of the Macintosh computer and to the Sinar

power supply.

•Connect the Sinarcam cable (4 m long) to the Sinar

power supply.

•Connect the synchro cord to the Sinar power

supply.

•Connect the Leaf DCB LV to the Macintosh

computer (see Leaf installation manual)

•Turn on the Sinar power supply and the Macintosh

computer.

2 Software Installation

•Insert the Sinarcam floppy disk in your

Macintosh computer and double click the

Sinarcam floppy icon.

•Double click the read-me icon to see the latest

information about the software.

•If you have a Power Macintosh computer with System Software

7.5.2 or earlier, drag the DMA-extension onto the system folder to

install the extension automatically to the right place. In this case,

you need to restart the computer. You don't need to install the

extension with System Software 7.5.3 and higher. To find out the

version of your System Software, select the menu entry "About

this Macintosh” in the Apple-menu.

•To start the Sinarcam software, double click the Sinarcam icon.

•During startup of the software, you have

a chance to select the serial port to which the sinarcam is

connected. The software automatically continues after some

seconds if you don’tchange the serial port.

Synchro cord

connector

Sinarcam

cable

connector

Serial cable

connector

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•You cannot use the printer port when AppleTalk is active. To turn off AppleTalk, switch to the

Finder application and select Chooser from the File menu. Click the “Inactive” radio button at the

bottom of the Chooser window and close the window. Start now the Sinarcam software.

•If the Sinarcam software gets no answer from the sinarcam body the following error message

appears:

•The sinarcam software supports CCD-backs and film holders. Click the appropriate radio button to

display either the color modes or the command buttons for taking the picture.

•To remotely set the aperture, you must connect the Aperture unit to the camera. Restart the

application. Note that the aperture slider will become active and displays the aperture range of the

selected lens. Note also that the “stop up” and “stop down” buttons are available when the aperture

unit is connected.

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•If the software gets stuck once e.g. by mistakenly turning off the Sinar power supply when the

program is still running, you need to force-quit the application. Hold down the ALT-key, the option

key and the apple key simultanously and press the ESC key.

•If you now restart the application, a message may appear informing you that the serial port is still

in use. Try to close the port by clicking on the close button and continue.

•If the filterwheel or the shutter blade gets jammed by any reason or if another hardware problem

occurs (bad lens code, wrong aperture), the software displays the following error message: Try to

reset the sinarcam

and continue. See also the trouble shooting table below.

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•A warning message will appear if you connect an Expolux shutter or any other camera which is not

compatible with this software. You must use a Sinarcam with this Mac-Software or for example the

Expolux shutter with the Expolux software.

•Select “About Sinarcam” in the Apple menu to display the serial number, the version of the

microprocessor inside the sinarcam and other data. You may need this values when getting in

touch with your local sinar dealer in case of upgrading or checking the unit.

3 Tips and Tricks

•You can test the proper working of the sinarcam even when no computer is connected. After

turning on the Sinar power supply, the sinarcam must reset. After turning on the Leaf power

supply, the sinarcam must close. If you connect a manual release cable to the Sinar power supply,

you are able to make tricolor exposure with preset exposure time 1/8 sec and preset f-stop 8.

•Normally the digital back generates the exposing signal when the software is in CCD mode. There

is however another way to manually control the camera for mainly testing purposes: press cfor

closing, xfor exposing and ofor opening the camera. Note however that the hardware signals

from the digital back have always priority, e.g. if the digital back makes the camera close, you

cannot open it by the key command.

•If you have to interrupt a tricolor-exposure in the Leaf-software by any reason, the sinarcam

filterwheel stops at its last position and does not go to its home position by itself. Klick again into

the “Tri-Shot”-radio button to reset the filter wheel for the next tricolor-exposure.

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Sinarcam Version 1.4 Users Guide

1. Overview

The Sinarcam is a new multipurpose digital camera that can be used as a stand alone system or in

conjunction with a sinar view camera. Various accessories can be combined in numerous

configurations thus continuing the famous modular system of sinar. You can even use the sinarcam to

take chemical pictures. But in contrast to other cameras that were mainly built for chemical film and

adapted for digital imaging, the sinarcam is truly designed as a digital camera that can be extended in

many different ways. With the sinarcam system you are able to assemble exactly the camera that is

optimally tailored to the assignment at hand.

2. Important Safeguards and Precautions

Handle the equipment as you would any valuable camera. Treat the system as you would your best

lens. Do not drop, expose the camera to extremly low or high temperature, to water and moisture or

to dust and smoke.

Mishandling can damage the system resulting in an expensive repair. Be careful especially when

cleaning the CCD-sensor or the color filters and follow exactly the instruction by Leaf or by Sinar later

in this manual.

3. Limitation

All CCD sensors have certain pixel-errors which normaly are invisible in a digital image due to

software corrections applied to the pixel error. It is however possible that certain pixel errors become

visible when zooming into the image if the surrounding pixels have some certain structure. Especially

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the live video image may show single pixel errors by occasion due to reduced pixel correction which

results in a higher frame rate of the live To be able to do the pixel correction the software needs some

correction files (Blemish-and Gain-files) which must reside in the same folder as your main

application. Normally the Leaf software installation routine will automatically install all the files at the

right place on your computer harddisk.

4. About the Sinarcam stand alone system:

•compact camera, easy setup

•straight forward use and handling

•reasonable prized starting system

•able to be combined with other sinar view cameras at any time

•use of existing SLR lenses (Olympus, Nikon, Canon) or medium

format lens (Hasselblad, Mamiya)

•Shift lenses or shift lens boards available

5. About the Sinarcam mounted on a p2:

•full use of all view camera features

•easy sharpness compensation by use of asymmetrical swing and

tilt axis

•use of highest quality digital lenses in various focal lengths

•aperture is automatically opened or closed when switching

between taking picture and focussing

6. About the Leaf-DCB-II LV

•three shot digital back (RGB) producing superior color fidelity

•live image on computer screen during focussing

•2k x 2k pixel CCD yielding 4 Mio pixels, 14 bit per pixel resolution

•24 MByte High resolution color files, 12 MByte Tiff-Export files

•proven software with many add ons

•well established standard in digital photography

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7. About the Sinaron digital lenses

To permit creative interiour photographs several lenses with different focal length with zoom and with

shifting capabilities are available.By means of different lens board adapters you can use existing

lenses for medium format cameras and 35 mm cameras. Because the medium format lenses have a

wide image circle the corresponding adapter board is also available with shift capability which allows

you to further improve your digital images.

LENS TYPE FOCAL

LENGTH SHIFT X

DIRECTION SHIFT Y

DIRECTION APERTURE

Sinaron digital

Zoom 35-80 35 -80 mm n.a. n.a. 2.8 -22

Sinaron digital

Shift 35 35 mm + / -15 mm + / -18 mm 2.8 -22

Sinaron digital

Shift 24 24 mm + / -8 mm + / -10 mm 3.5 -22

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8. Sinar Lensboards

For optimal focussing the aperture should always be fully open to allow best depth of field. With so

called manual lensboards, it is required to switch from the working aperture to fully open manually.

Automatic-lensboards for Sinaron digital-and Nikon-lenses allow you to control the aperture

automatically: By working with the Sinarcam compact in the live-video-mode, the lens will

automaticaly open up, to guarantee a optimal focussing with fully open aperture. By leaving the live-

mode to take a picture, the automatic-board will close down the aperture to the previous chosen

working aperture.

556.63.010 Sinaron Bayonet Board dig man

556.63.011 Sinaron Bayonet Board dig aut

556.63.018 Sinaron Bajonetplatte spec man

556.63.019 Sinaron Bayonet Board spec aut

556.63.020 Nikon Bayonet Board dig man

556.63.021 Nikon Bayonet Board dig aut

556.63.028 Nikon Bayonet Board spec man

556.63.029 Nikon Bayonet Board spec aut

556.64.051 Hasselblad Shift Board dig man

556.64.058 Hasselblad Shift Board spec man

dig = digital This lens-board is dedicated for the use of the Sinarcam compact unit,

when no slide-adapter 551.33.022 and no film is being used.

spec = special This lens-board is dedicated for the use with the Sinarcam slide-adapter

551.33.022 or by using film with the Sinarcam compact unit.

man = manual With this lens-board you are required to open up the lens aperture

manually while working in the live-video-mode of the Sinarcam compact

unit. By leaving the live-video-mode, you will have to manually stop down

the aperture back to the working aperture.

aut = automatic With this lens-board all the above described “man” operations will be

automatically set and controlled from the Sinarcam compact unit.

•To control these lens-boards with auto aperture function, the Sinarcam is requiring the hardware-

version 1.4 and higher and the software-version 1.4 or higher.

•New, or with this funktion already updated Sinarcams are to identify by a dot on the left side of the

serial-no.

•The version of existing Sinarcams can easy be checked by starting the Sinarcam software and

opening the menu “Apel” and “about Sinarcam”.

•Sinarcams with the soft-and hardware-version 1.4 are available at December 97.

•Existing Sinarcams can be updated at Sinar for no charge, by ordering of a automatic-board,

(excl.shippment)

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