Settings
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Zebra
To activate and adjust the Zebra setting, touch the left and right zebra arrow icons.
The Zebra setting helps you achieve optimum exposure by displaying diagonal lines across any part of
the video that exceeds the set zebra level. For example, setting the zebra to 100% lets you see which
areas of the picture are over exposed. Setting the zebra to 75% is a helpful method for achieving optimum
exposure for skin tones.
To achieve optimum exposure, simply open the lens aperture until the zebra pattern appears, then
gradually close the aperture one f-stop at a time until the zebra pattern is no longer visible.
To achieve a balanced exposure, you may need to decide which areas of your picture to leave over exposed.
Car headlights and extreme highlights are a good example of what can often be left over exposed.
SDI Overlays
You can monitor your video with overlays on an external viewfinder or display via Blackmagic URSA’s
HD-SDI Monitoring Out connector. The SDI Overlay setting lets you display useful information. Touch the
SDI overlay arrow icons to select the overlays to display, or set to OFF for a clean feed.
All:
displays both frame guides and recording information.
Status:
displays only the recording information, such as f-stop number, frame rate, battery life etc.
Guides:
displays only the frame guides.
Off:
gives you a clean feed.
Your selected overlays can also be viewed on Blackmagic URSA's fold out monitor by pressing the Disp
button on the monitor control buttons.
Image Stabilizer
When using an EF lens mount, Blackmagic URSA supports the image stabilizer (IS) feature found in many
EF lenses. Simply set the Stabilizer switch to ON to use it with your camera. If your lens also features a
Stabilizer Mode switch, set it to the appropriate mode for still shots or for movement.
When using battery power, the camera will only activate the image stabilizer while recording, as the
lens draws additional power to operate the image stabilizer.
When external power is connected to the
camera, the image stabilizer will be active any time you set the lens stabilizer switch to ON.
Display settings screen with Zebra set to 100%. This will let
you see which areas of your image are over exposed.
SDI Overlays set to display on an external viewfinder or
monitor via URSA's down converted 1080 HD output. Your
selected overlays can also be viewed on URSA's 10" fold out
monitor.
