Polaroid DCM 2 Online Technical manual

Online User Guide

DMC 2

Contents

Navigating in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

DMC 2 Camera Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Taking Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Typical Picture-Taking Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Turning the Camera On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Starting the DMC 2 Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Selecting a DMC Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Framing and Focusing the Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Choosing a Capture Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Choosing Color or Grayscale Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Rotating the Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Enlarging the Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Setting Exposure Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Calibrating Auto Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Setting Exposure Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Setting Sensitivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Selecting Color Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Creating a Custom Color Temperature Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Selecting Image Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Selecting Image Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Image File Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Verifying Sharp Focus Digitally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Capturing the Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Capturing a Rapid Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Printing the Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Enhancing the Image with DMC 2 Software . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Automatically Adjusting Color Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Adjusting Color Balance by Selecting a Whitepoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Adjusting Color Balance by Selecting a Neutral Gray Point . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Adjusting Color Balance by Selecting a Blackpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Manually Adjusting Color Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Manually Adjusting Dark Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Manually Adjusting Brightness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Adjusting Gamma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Viewing a Histogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Adjusting Sharpness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Viewing the Full Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Reducing Grain in Long Exposures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Adding a Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Adding a Calibrated Micron Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Creating a Calibrated Micron Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Deleting a Calibrated Micron Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Saving and Reusing Program Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Program Settings You Can Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Setting DMC 2 Software Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

General Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Remote Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Output Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Camera Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using the Color Stacker Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Creating a Composite Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Color Stacker Preview Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Camera Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Cleaning the Camera Optics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Cleaning the Camera Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Obtaining Software Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

DMC 2 Camera Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

PC Minimum System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Macintosh Minimum System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Installing Software and Setting Up the Camera . . . . . . . . . . 105

Unpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Installing the DMC 2 Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Attaching the Camera to the Microscope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Connecting the Camera to the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Connecting the Camera to AC Power and Turning On . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Taking a Test Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Camera Limited Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Radio and Television Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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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.

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