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Unibrain Fire-i Installation Manual And User's Manual

Technical support: support@unibrain.com Sales Information: sales@unibrain.com Web site: www.unibrain.com
January 2007
Dear Customer, Thank you for purchasing our Fire-i™ Digital Color Camera, world’s best 1394 small size & general use ca mera.
We are pleased to introduce the new version of its retail package, which includes:
¾ One Fire-i™ Digital Color Camera, able to display 30 fps at 640 X
480 with a crystal clear picture
¾ One 2m (6.6ft) thin FireWire cable 6-pin to 6-pin
¾ one mini tripod with telescopic legs, for table use
¾ one tripod adapter, to use the mini tripod or to attach on any
mechanical support equipped with a standard photographic screw
¾ One CD software package, with:
• Unibrain’s Fire-i™ drivers & application for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista & XP 64 bit.
• Collection of LINUX drivers & software.
• Documentation, Warranty and End User License Agreement
terms for Unibrain software.
Thank you for choosing our products and … enjoy your new Fire-i™ Digital Camera!
The Unibrain Vision/Imaging Team
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................3
Software Installation .......................................................................................................... 7
Software Installation for Linux.......................................................................................................7
Software Installation for PC: Fire-i™ Software Application ............................................... 7
i. Prepare............................................................................................................................................ 8
ii. Install .............................................................................................................................................. 8
iii. Camera driver manual installation....................................................................................................... 8
iv. Run Fire-i Application .......................................................................................................................12
Mac OS Support & Applications......................................................................................... 14
General Tips ...................................................................................................................... 15
Daisy Chaining your Fire-i™ Digital Camera..................................................................................15
Powering the camera............................................................................................................ ......15
How to get the best camera picture.............................................................................................17
i. First check this!................................................................................................................................17
ii. Clean the optical system...................................................................................................................17
iii. Flicker cancellation in fluorescent lighting conditions ...........................................................................17
iv. White balance..................................................................................................................................17
v. Focus..............................................................................................................................................18
vi. Exposure controls.............................................................................................................................18
vii. Last steps........................................................................................................................................18
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Technical Support Information
All technical support questions should be directed to the following email address:
support@unibrain.com
This address is monitored throughout the day by Unibrain’s 1394 support team, who will respond quickly and with the required technical accuracy, to your questions.
Please refrain from sending any queries directly to unibrain engineering staff, in order to maintain our support database and make sure that your email will be responded to, in case any specific person is unavailable. Please, try to be as specific as possible in your inquiries to this email address, and to restrict questions to technical issues.
For pricing and marketing information, please e-mail at: sales@unibrain.com For more information regarding all Unibrain’s products, please visit: http://www.unibrain.com/
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Hardware Installation
¾ Attach the tripod adapter to the tripod. Rotate the roller as depicted below
¾ Attach the tripod adapter to the back of the Fire-i™ Digital Camera.
¾ Connect the included 6-pin cable to your Fire-i™ Digital Camera.
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¾ Please select one of the following options:
• You have a desktop computer (PC or Mac) with built-in FireWire
port(s) :
Connect the included 6-pin cable to your Fi reWire adapte r and proceed to the next steps for the software installation.
• You have a desktop computer (PC or Mac) without FireWire ports: Please shutdown your computer fully and disconnect it from the power plug. Open it and install the
Unibrain FireBoardBlue™ adapter in any empty PCI slot.
You can also use the Unibrain FireboardBlue-e™ adapter only in case of PCI-express local bus. Close the case of the computer, reconnect the power and st art.
Just let the Operating System install the FireBoardBlue ™ or FireBoardBlue-e™ with native drivers. They are standard OHCI FireWire adapters and will be automatically re cognized.
You may purchase Fireboard Blue PCI adapter using orde r part number: # 1203.
You may purchase FireboardBlue-e PCI express adapter using order part number: #1213.
Connect the included 6-pin cable to your Fi reWire ad apter and procee d to the next steps f or the soft ware installation.
• You have a laptop computer (PC or Mac) with built-in FireWire port. Most probably, the FireWire connector on your laptop ha s 4-pin, not 6. Use a 6-to-4
plug converter from Unibrain, (order part number: # 1650). Connect the included 6-pin cable to the 6-t o-4 converter and t he converte r to your
laptop FireWire 4-pin connector. As the camera will NOT be powered by the laptop connection, ensure that an appropriate power supply is
used on the camera. You will find details and refere nces in section Poweri ng the camera. Then proceed to the next steps for the softwa re installati on.
• You have a laptop computer (PC or Mac) without on board FireWire
adapter.
We recommend the use of Unibrain FireCard400™ adapter for CardBus (P CMCIA) (order part number:# 1206)
Connect the included 6-pin cable to the FireCard400 ™ adapter. As the camera will NOT be powered by the laptop connection , ensure that a n appropriate po wer supply is used on the camera. You will find details and ref erences in secti on Powering the camera. Then proceed to the next steps for the software installation.
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