Kodak DCS 330 User Manual
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This is an update to the DCS 300 Series User’s Manual. It describes new features available on DCS 330 cameras with firmware version 3.2 or later.
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New Look for the Image Display ........................................................................ |
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Menu Bar .................................................................................................... |
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Navigating the Image Display .................................................................... |
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Status Bar .................................................................................................... |
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Dual Slots for PC Cards....................................................................................... |
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Selecting a PC Card or Folder .................................................................... |
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Deleting Images .......................................................................................... |
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Formatting a PC Card ............................................................................... |
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JPEG File Processing......................................................................................... |
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Processing with Two PC Cards ................................................................. |
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Processing Images ..................................................................................... |
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Changing Processing Settings ................................................................... |
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Working with TIFF Custom Files on your Computer .............................. |
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White Balance.................................................................................................... |
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Selecting White Balance ........................................................................... |
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Using Custom White Balance Settings ..................................................... |
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Intervalometer.................................................................................................... |
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Recovering Deleted Images............................................................................... |
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Name Plate......................................................................................................... |
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Global Positioning System ................................................................................ |
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IPTC Data Management .................................................................................... |
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Loading IPTC Data from a PC Card ......................................................... |
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Sharpening ......................................................................................................... |
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In the Camera ............................................................................................ |
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In the DCS Acquire Module or DCS TWAIN Data Source ..................... |
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Serial Port Operation ......................................................................................... |
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Connecting a Device to the Serial Port ..................................................... |
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Accessing Serial Port Options .................................................................. |
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Image Transmit ......................................................................................... |
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Contents
New Features
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A new look for the Image Display |
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Dual active slots for PC Cards |
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JPEG file processing that allows you to finish files in the camera |
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An Intervalometer that allows you to set your camera to capture a series of images |
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The ability to recover deleted images
A name plate that you can personalize
A Global Positioning System option that determines the exact latitude and longitude of the camera
IPTC data in image header
Serial port operations
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New Look for the Image Display
The Image Display has been redesigned to be easier to use and to provide more space for menu choices and image-related information. There is a new way of using the Menu bar, and a new Status bar that appears in Image Review mode.
Menu Bar
To provide more room on the Image Display screens, the Menu bar is only displayed at your request. When you turn the Image Display On, the last screen used appears without the Menu bar. If you then press the MENU button, the Menu bar appears.
Shortcut, press and hold the MENU button to turn the Image Display On and display the Menu bar.
The original Menu bar looked like this:
The new one looks like this:
When the Menu bar is displayed, the contrast of the remainder of the screen is lowered, giving it a “grayed-out” appearance.
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When you select the following icons on the Menu bar, these dropdown menus and screens appear:
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Main and Properties menus. |
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Displays choices for White |
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Balance settings (page 18). |
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contrast of the images |
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Navigating the Image Display
Use the following guidelines when navigating the Image Display
Display the Menu bar and select a
Menu bar icon
Press and hold the MENU button and rotate the Main Command dial until the desired icon is highlighted.
Display a Dropdown menu
Highlight the Folder, Menu, Display, or White Balance icon, and continue pressing the MENU button until the dropdown menu appears.
Choose an item from a dropdown menu
When a dropdown menu appears, continue to press the MENU button and rotate the Main Command dial until the desired menu choice is highlighted.
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Chose an item from a menu screen
Press and hold the SELECT button and rotate the Main Command dial to highlight your choice.
Status Bar
A Status bar appears whenever images are displayed (in Single, Four, or Nine Image Review mode). Information about the currently selected image appears on the Status bar:
Two PC Cards
One PC Card
The currently active PC Card (if there are two cards in the camera)
The currently active folder
Sound icon (if one or more sound files are associated with the selected image)
Tag icon (if the selected image has been tagged)
Refer to chapter 9 of the User’s Manual for information on tagging or associating a sound file with an image.
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Dual Slots for PC Cards
The second PC Card slot has been enabled on the DCS 330 camera. With Type II PC Cards, you can use one or both slots. With Type III PC Cards, only one slot can be used. The card in the rear slot is referred to as CARD0, and the card in the front slot as CARD1.
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Insert PC Cards as described in chapter 4 of the User’s Manual. When using one PC Card, you can use either slot. When using two cards, the first card inserted will be the active card. When you capture or delete images, they will be saved to or deleted from the active card.
With two PC Cards inserted, the following procedures are slightly different than those described in the User’s Manual. (With one card, refer to chapter 4 of the User’s Manual.)
Selecting a PC Card or folder (page 8)
Deleting images (page 9)
Formatting a PC Card (page 10)
IMPORTANT:
Your camera uses 3 volt or 5 volt PC Cards. When you use two cards, they must both have the same voltage rating. If you insert two cards with different voltages, neither is powered. A “Card Voltage Mix” message appears. You need to remove one of the cards so that the other can be powered.
After inserting one PC Card, wait for the PC Card Busy/Record LED to stop blinking before inserting the second card. Failure to do so will cause an error.
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Selecting a PC Card or Folder
1 Select the Folder icon (page 5).
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If there is no PC Card in the camera, an X appears within the Folder icon. Selecting the Folder icon produces the screen at the left.
With one PC Card inserted, this dropdown menu appears with a • displayed next to the currently active folder.
With two PC Cards inserted, this dropdown menu appears with a • displayed next to the currently active card and the currently active folder on that card.
A 0 or 1 appears in the Folder icon, indicating the active PC Card.
The listed folders are on the active card. The folder list changes when you change cards.
The numbers in parentheses next to the cards and folders indicate the number of images in each.
2 Continue pressing the MENU button.
3 With two PC Cards inserted, select CARD0 or CARD1 from the dropdown menu (page 5), then select a folder. With one card inserted, select a folder.
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Deleting Images
To delete images when one card is inserted, display the Main menu (page 5), then delete images as described in chapter 9 of the User’s Manual. If two cards are inserted, do the following:
1 Select a different PC Card, if necessary (page 8).
2 Select the Menu icon, then choose Main Menu from the dropdown menu (page 5).
The Main menu appears.
3 Select Delete Images.
The Delete Images screen appears, displaying choices for the active PC Card.
4 Press and hold the SELECT button and rotate the Main Command dial to highlight your choice.
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Formatting a PC Card
There can only be one PC Card in the camera when you format a card. This is a safety feature to prevent formatting the wrong card. You can format a card using either the Quick Format or the Full Format feature.
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Quick format, while faster, is not recommended if there is a possibility that the data on the card is corrupted.
1 Select the Menu icon, then choose Main Menu (page 5).
2 Select Card from the Main menu.
The Card menu appears.
3 Choose Quick Format or Full Format.
If two cards are in the camera, you are prompted to remove the inactive card. For example, if CARD0 is active, you are prompted to remove CARD1.
Remove the inactive card, then select Retry.
If you remove the active card, the message at the left appears:
Re-insert the card in the proper slot, then select Retry.
4 Proceed with formatting as described in chapter 4 of the User’s Manual.
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JPEG File Processing
The DCS 330 camera supports background image processing that produces JPEG or TIFF RGB files that can be opened directly by any image editing software.
The choices for processed files are JPEG Good, Better, Best, and TIFF RGB. JPEG Good files have the most compression, JPEG Best have the least—the less compression applied, the better the image quality in the processed file and the larger the file size. The final JPEG file size varies, depending on image content. TIFF RGB files are not compressed.
When you capture images, they are written to the selected folder on the PC Card using the TIFF Custom format, regardless of whether Processing is turned on. If you turn on Processing, JPEG Best, Better, Good, or TIFF RGB files are created in the background (when the camera is not busy with other tasks such as capturing images).
JPEG files are saved to a JPEG folder and TIFF RGB files are saved to a TIFF RGB folder. These folders are created on the PC Card when you turn on Processing (if they are not already there). If you select the JPEG or TIFF RGB folder to review images, then capture an image, a message informs you that images cannot be saved in that folder. The images are saved in the default folder established in Properties. (Refer to chapter 3 of the User’s Manual.)
The default for Processing is Off. When you turn on Processing, it stays on until you turn it off, or remove the PC Card.
Processing with Two PC Cards
When you have PC Cards inserted in both slots (page 7), images are processed on the card that is active when you turn on Processing. If you make the other card active, processing continues on the card originally designated for processing. For example, if CARD0 is active when you turn on Processing, then you change to CARD1, processing continues on CARD0, but not on CARD1. In this case, if you want to switch Processing to CARD1, you must turn off Processing, then turn it back on. When turned on, Processing is automatically set for the active card (CARD1).
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