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DMC 2
Online User Guide
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Contents Navigating in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 DMC 2 Camera Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Taking Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Typical Picture-Taking Sequence . . . . . . . . . .
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Calibrating Auto Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Setting Exposure Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Setting Sensitivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Selecting Color Temperature . . . .
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Adjusting Color Balance by Selecting a Blackpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Manually Adjusting Color Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Manually Adjusting Dark Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Manually Adjusting Brightness. . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Setting DMC 2 Software Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 General Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Remote Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Output Preferences . . . . . . . . . .
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System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 PC Minimum System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Macintosh Minimum System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Installing Software and Setting Up the Camera . . . . . . . . . .
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Polaroid Offices and Service Centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Solving SCSI Communication Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Changing Sync Transfer Rate on Some Adaptec SCSI Adapters . . . . . 138 Installing a SCSI Host Adapter .
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Navigating in This Document This Polaroid electronic document uses the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and its associated Acrobat Reader software. You should familiarize yourself with the controls of the Acrobat reader. Access Help...Reader Online Guide...Viewing PDF Documents...Navigating Pages for more information. Polaroid electronic documents provide additional navigation tools at the top of the screen. The icons have the following meanings: Click to go to the table of contents. Cl
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DMC 2 Camera Features The Polaroid DMC 2 Digital Microscope Camera captures high-quality digital color images from light microscopes and other optical instruments. The camera uses a 2- million-pixel, 11mm CCD (charge coupled device) to capture 14-bit linear RGB images. It transfers these images in seconds to an IBM PC or Power Macintosh com- patible computer in TIFF format with 1600x1200 or 800x600 pixels. On IBM PC com- patible systems, an additional image size of 400x300 is available. 9 Next
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Using the software provided with the camera, you can: Display a color viewfinder image on your computer screen. Choose resolution, exposure, sensitivity, color temperature, and other options. Automatically adjust exposure. Manually adjust color balance, brightness, contrast and sharpness. Verify focus digitally. Add a calibrated scale to the image. Add a title or other text to the image. Transfer the image to your image-editing application or hard drive. Capture a rapid sequenc
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The camera has a SCSI connection requiring no frame-grabber or other special hard- ware or software. (The camera requires a SCSI host adapter, usually built into Macin- tosh computers. SCSI host adapters can also be easily added to PC-compatible computers.) Compatible with standard .63, 1:1 or larger c-mount adapters, the camera attaches easily to microscopes for most types of transmitted-light and reflected-light micros- copy. Multiple DMC 2 cameras can be connected in a SCSI chain to a sing
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Taking Pictures Typical Picture-Taking Sequence 1 Turn on the camera. 9 Set sensitivity. 2 Start the DMC 2 software. 10 Select color temperature. 3 Frame and focus the preview. 11 Select image type. 4 Choose a capture area 12 Select image size. 5 Choose color or grayscale preview. 13 Verify sharp focus digitally. 6 Rotate the image. 14 Capture the image. 7 Zoom the preview. 15 Enhance the image. 8 Set exposure. 12
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Turning the Camera On 1 Turn off the computer. 2 Turn the camera power switch to on (1). Power switch (on = 1) 3 Verify that the green and yellow LEDs are on, indicating AC and termination power are on. Green LED Yellow LED 4 Turn on the computer. 13
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Starting the DMC 2 Software Macintosh Windows Double-click Polaroid DMC 2. 1 Select Programs from the Start menu. 2 Point to Polaroid Digital Microscope The main DMC 2 window appears. Camera 2 and select Polaroid DMC 2. The main DMC 2 window appears. If more than one DMC camera is connected to the computer, you must select the cam- era to be used in this session. To select a camera, see Selecting a DMC Camera. 14
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Selecting a DMC Camera If more than one DMC camera is connected to the computer, use these steps to select the camera to be used in the current session: Macintosh Windows 1 Click the Preferences button in 1 Click Set Preferences on the Tools the main DMC 2 window. menu. 2 Click Choose a DMC 2 in the 2 Click the Cameras tab. DMC 2 Preferences box. 3 Click the SCSI address of the camera 3 Choose the SCSI address of the to be used. camera to be used. 4 Click OK. 4 Click OK to activate the camera
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Framing and Focusing the Preview 1 View the subject through the microscope eyepiece. 2 Adjust subject position, focus and lighting according to the microscope instruc- tions. 3 If your microscope requires, manually switch the light path to the camera. 4 If a viewfinder image is not visible in the DMC 2 software main window, click the Preview button. Note: If clicking Preview does not display an image, you may need to adjust expo- sure or sensitivity before continuing. Exposure adjustment instru
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Choosing a Capture Area You can capture the entire DMC frame or a smaller, selected area. To capture an area smaller than the DMC frame: 1 Adjust exposure to obtain an acceptable image on the Viewfinder Display tab of the main DMC 2 window. 2 Click the Region of Interest Selection tab. 3 Select the size of the frame to be captured (3/4 or 1/2 frame) from the Capture Area list. A box defining the selected capture area appears on the image. 4 Position the capture area as desired by dragging it.
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5 Click the Viewfinder Display tab to view only the capture area. The values avail- able in the Image Size box correspond to the capture area you selected. 6 Continue with the picture-taking sequence. 18
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Choosing Color or Grayscale Preview You can view the preview image in the DMC 2 main window in either color or gray- scale. A color preview provides a more accurate representation of the final image, while a grayscale preview refreshes faster. To view a color preview image, select Color in the main DMC 2 window. To view a grayscale preview image, deselect Color. 19
