Kodak APTUS FAMILY User Manual

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1 Introduction 1

Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 2

Using the Stylus........................................................................................................................................ 4

The Basic Steps......................................................................................................................................... 5

2 Getting Started 7

Turning on the Leaf Aptus Digital Camera Back ........................................................................................ 8

Compact Flash Card and Battery........................................................................................................ 8

Digital Magazine................................................................................................................................ 9

Tethered Mode.................................................................................................................................. 9

Turning off the Leaf Aptus Digital Camera Back...................................................................................... 10

Preparing a Compact Flash Card for Shoot ............................................................................................. 11

Formatting in Mac OS X................................................................................................................... 11

Formatting in Windows ................................................................................................................... 13

Inserting a Compact Flash Card .............................................................................................................. 15

Removing a Compact Flash Card ............................................................................................................ 16

3 Preparing to Shoot 17

Changing the Interface language............................................................................................................ 18

Setting the Date and Time ..................................................................................................................... 19

Viewing and Defining Camera Settings................................................................................................... 20

Creating a Folder.................................................................................................................................... 21

Selecting a Folder for Your Shot ............................................................................................................. 22

Assigning a Base Name to a Shot............................................................................................................ 23

Adding Notes and Copyright Information to Your Shots ......................................................................... 24

4 Taking a Shot 25

Taking a Shot ......................................................................................................................................... 26

5 Evaluating Your Shot 27

Checking the Exposure ........................................................................................................................... 28

Checking Exposure with the Histogram............................................................................................28

Checking Exposure with the Picker Tool........................................................................................... 29

Checking Exposure with the Overexposure and Underexposure Alarms............................................ 30

Checking Focus ...................................................................................................................................... 31

Setting the Gray Balance ........................................................................................................................ 32

Checking Composition ........................................................................................................................... 33

Browsing Through Your Images.............................................................................................................. 34

Deleting Shots in Shoot View.................................................................................................................. 34

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Flagging and Annotating in Shoot View.................................................................................................. 35

Viewing Information About Your Shot .................................................................................................... 36

6 Editing Your Images 37

Edit View ................................................................................................................................................38

Accessing Edit View from Shoot View .............................................................................................. 38

Browsing Through Your Images .............................................................................................................. 39

Selecting a View for Your Images ........................................................................................................... 39

Viewing Information and EXIF Data......................................................................................................... 40

Viewing Information Using the User Button ............................................................................................ 41

Selecting Multiple Images .......................................................................................................................42

Flagging, Annotating, and Deleting in Edit View ..................................................................................... 42

Sorting Your Images ............................................................................................................................... 43

Selecting a Folder ...................................................................................................................................44

Moving Your Images............................................................................................................................... 45

Opening Images in Shoot View ............................................................................................................... 46

7 Adjusting Settings for a Shoot 47

Shooting Without Overlays ..................................................................................................................... 48

Working in Full-Screen View ................................................................................................................... 49

Using the Crop Mask .............................................................................................................................. 50

Adjusting the Transparency of the Crop Mask......................................................................................... 51

Adjusting the Transparency of the Histogram and Info Bar...................................................................... 52

Setting the Exposure Alarm..................................................................................................................... 53

Resetting the File Name Counter............................................................................................................. 54

8 Defining the Camera Back Settings 55

Formatting the Compact Flash Card in Portable Mode ............................................................................56

Configuring the User Button................................................................................................................... 58

Configuring the User Button for Shoot View .................................................................................... 58

Configuring the User Button for Edit View .......................................................................................59

Configuring a Long Press of the User Button.................................................................................... 60

Aligning the Touch Screen ...................................................................................................................... 61

Turning Off the Backlight........................................................................................................................ 62

Turning On the Backlight ........................................................................................................................ 63

Setting the Volume for the Camera Back Sounds .................................................................................... 64

Setting the Owner Information ...............................................................................................................65

Restoring Factory Settings....................................................................................................................... 66

Viewing the Leaf Aptus Version Information ........................................................................................... 67

Contents 7

9 Working With Leaf WiView 69

What Is Leaf WiView?............................................................................................................................. 70

Starting Leaf WiView on Your Leaf Aptus Camera Back .......................................................................... 70

Changing the PIN ................................................................................................................................... 71

Working With Leaf WiView on an iPAQ Pocket PC.................................................................................. 72

Starting Leaf WiView on the iPAQ Pocket PC ................................................................................... 73

Changing the Name of the Camera Back ......................................................................................... 76

Evaluating the Current Shot With Leaf WiView ................................................................................ 77

Editing With Leaf WiView ................................................................................................................ 77

Changing the Shoot View Options in Leaf WiView........................................................................... 78

Changing the Interface Language in Leaf WiView ............................................................................ 78

About Leaf WiView.......................................................................................................................... 79

8 Leaf Aptus User Guide

Introduction

Overview.....................................................................................................................2

Using the Stylus ....................................................................................................... 4

The Basic Steps.........................................................................................................5

2 Chapter 1 – Introduction

Overview

The Leaf® Aptus™ digital camera back is the world’s first camera back that includes a built-in (6×7 cm) LCD screen and an innovative graphic user interface. An integrated battery and compact flash (CF) storage card facilitate shooting. New hardware offers continuous non-stop shooting and a faster capture rate. These shooting capabilities, combined with large storage options, give professionals the flexibility to meet the most demanding shooting situations. A new raw HDR format that uses lossless compression to reduce file size and a completely new Leaf Capture application enhance workflow and teamwork both on location and in the studio.

This user guide explains how to set up the camera back for first-time use, take a shot, evaluate it, and edit it.

The following picture shows the Leaf Aptus digital camera back opening screen and menu buttons:

Camera settings

Shoot view

Edit view

Setup menu

Current user-button action

Number of images in the current folder or on the disk

Number of shots you can still take

Remaining battery power

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The following picture shows the location of the Leaf Aptus digital camera back controls and stylus:

On/Off button

User button

Stylus

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Using the Stylus

The Leaf Aptus digital camera back is supplied with a stylus. Use the stylus to tap the touch screen.

To remove the stylus for use, slide it out of the slot located at the top of the LLeaf Aptus digital camera back.

The Basic Steps 5

The Basic Steps

Follow these steps to shoot and edit your images:

Prepare to shoot.

View the camera settings.

Ta k e a n d e va l ua t e a shot.

Edit your images.

Turn on your camera and camera back, and perform some basic steps before taking your first shot

View the predefined camera settings, choose another setting, or make changes to specific camera settings.

Take a shot. Check the exposure, focus, and composition of your shot, and set the gray balance for future shots.

Organize your images using the Leaf Aptus digital camera back editing tools.

Getting Started

Turning on the Leaf Aptus Digital Camera Back.............................................. 8

Turning off the Leaf Aptus Digital Camera Back ............................................10

Preparing a Compact Flash Card for Shoot.......................................................11

Inserting a Compact Flash Card .........................................................................15

Removing a Compact Flash Card ....................................................................... 16

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Turning on the Leaf Aptus Digital Camera Back

The procedure for turning on your Leaf Aptus digital camera back depends on whether you use a compact flash card and battery, use a digital magazine, or work in tethered mode.

Compact Flash Card and Battery

To turn on your Leaf Aptus digital camera back when using a compact flash card and battery:

1. Ensure that the battery is charged. For more information, see the Installation Guide.

2. If this is the first time that you are using the compact flash card with your Leaf Aptus digital camera back, you should format the card. For detailed instructions on formatting the compact flash card, see Preparing a Compact Flash Card for Shoot on page 11.

3. Insert the compact flash card. For more information, see Inserting a Compact Flash Card on page 15.

4. Press and hold the On/Off button on the camera back until the orange light turns on, and then release the On/Off button.

The light turns green and a beep sounds to indicate that the camera is ready for you to shoot.

On/Off button

5. Verify that the Ready to Shoot message appears on the touch screen.

Turning on the Leaf Aptus Digital Camera Back 9

Ready to Shoot

Digital Magazine

To turn on your Leaf Aptus digital camera back when using a digital magazine:

1. Connect the digital magazine to the camera back with an Apple® FireWire® cable. For more information, see the Leaf Aptus Installation Guide (73100426D).

Tethered Mode

2. Press and hold the On/Off button on the digital magazine until the green light turns on.

3. Verify that the

To turn on your Leaf Aptus digital camera back when working in tethered mode:

1. Plug the FireWire cable into the camera back and the computer.

If there is a compact flash in the camera back, the compact flash icon appears on the desktop.

2. Turn on the camera.

Ready to Shoot message appears on the touch screen.

For more information, see the Leaf Aptus Installation Guide (731-00426D).

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Turning off the Leaf Aptus Digital Camera Back

Turn the Leaf Aptus digital camera back off in one of the following ways:

When using a compact flash and battery:

Press and hold the On/Off button until the light turns orange. If you changed a setting in the Setup menu, the camera saves the new setting and then shuts down.

When using a digital magazine:

Press the On/Off button.

When working in tethered mode:

Do one of the following:

¾ If you are using a compact flash card, on the desktop, right-click the compact

flash card and select Move to Trash (Apple® Mac OS® X operating system) or Eject (Microsoft® Windows® operating system), and then unplug the FireWire

cable.

¾ If you are not using a compact flash card, unplug the FireWire cable.

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Preparing a Compact Flash Card for Shoot

Format a compact flash card in the following circumstances:

• If the compact flash card is new.

• If you have used the compact flash card on a non-Leaf digital camera back.

You can format the card on a computer running either Mac OS or Windows. When formatting the compact flash card, you can use either a card reader, or the Leaf Aptus digital camera back to read the card.

Notes:

• If you use the Leaf Aptus digital camera back as a card reader, we

recommend that you use a computer running Mac OS X.

• Formatting the compact flash card erases all data on the card.

If you have been using the compact flash card with your Aptus and wish to erase all the data on the card, perform a quick format. For more information, see Formatting the Compact Flash Card in Portable Mode on page 56.

Formatting in Mac OS X

1. Insert the compact flash card into the card reader or the Leaf Aptus digital camera back.

2. On the desktop, double-click the system disk.

3. Select Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.

4. On the left panel of the Disk Utility dialog box, select the removable disk that you want to format.

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5. Click the Erase tab.

6. In the Volume Format box, select MS-DOS File System.

7. In t h e Name box, type

LEAF-CF.

8. Click Erase.

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9. In the confirmation message that appears, click Erase.

Formatting is complete when the progress bar disappears from view, the

Format

Untitled

box shows

Mac OS Extended (journaled),

and the

10. On the desktop, select the LEAF-CF volume.

11. Select File > Get Info.

12. In the Leaf-CF Info window, ensure that Format shows

Exchange (MS-DOS)

Macintosh PC

Name

Volume

box shows

13. Close the Disk Utility application.

14. Drag the LEAF-CF volume to Tr a s h .

Formatting in Windows

1. Insert the compact flash card in a card reader.

2. On the desktop, click My Computer.

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3. Right-click Removable Disk, and from the menu, select Format.

4. In the Format dialog box, in the File System box, select FAT 32.

5. In the Volume label box, type

LEAF-CF.

6. Click Start.

7. When the format procedure is complete, go to the desktop and click My Computer.

8. Right-click Removable Disk, and from the menu, select Eject.

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Inserting a Compact Flash Card

If this is the first time that you are using the compact flash card with your Leaf Aptus digital camera back, you should first format the card. For more information, see Preparing a Compact Flash Card for Shoot on page 11.

1. Open the compact flash card door.

Compact flash card door

2. Insert the compact flash card.

Compact flash card

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Removing a Compact Flash Card

1. Open the compact flash card door, and then press the Release button.

Release button

2. Remove the compact flash card.

Preparing to Shoot

Changing the Interface language........................................................................18

Setting the Date and Time....................................................................................19

Viewing and Defining Camera Settings ...........................................................20

Creating a Folder .................................................................................................... 21

Selecting a Folder for Your Shot......................................................................... 22

Assigning a Base Name to a Shot ..................................................................... 23

Adding Notes and Copyright Information to Your Shots ............................ 24

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Changing the Interface language

1. Scroll down, and then tap Interface

Language.

2. Tap the desired language.

Setting the Date and Time 19

Setting the Date and Time

1. Scroll down, and then tap Date and

Ti m e .

2. Using the virtual keypad, tap the date and time values, and then tap ok.

Note: You need to set the date and time only once. If the time-zone that you work in changes, reset the date and time accordingly.

To take a shot now, skip to the section Taking a Shot on page 26. To view and customize your camera settings, go to the next section.

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