P+S Technik Weisscam HS-1, Operator'S Manual

Page 1: ...OPERATOR S GUIDEBOOK Version November 2006 ArtNo 22135...

Page 2: ...k 2006 Stefan Weiss Director of Photography and developper of Weisscam Version November 2006 Article Number 22135 Printed at P S Technik GmbH Order No Manufacturer P S TECHNIK GmbH Siemensstra e 12 D...

Page 3: ...TING C 1 Light C 1 Frame rate C 1 Download C 2 Focus D 1 PREPARATION D 1 Connection Chart D 2 Control Unit D 3 Camera D 3 Hand Unit E 1 SOFTWARE E 1 Installation E 3 Start Software E 3 Window View Col...

Page 4: ...DOP STUFF J 1 Light J 1 Flicker free J 1 HMI or Tungsten J 2 Outdoor Shooting J 2 Lenses J 2 ASA J 2 Depth of Field J 3 Crop Factor J 3 Lightweight Support J 3 Bridge Plate K 1 FAQ L 1 ADDITIONAL INF...

Page 5: ...perator you are specialized in highspeed shooting Your role is not only being an operator but also an advisor for the DoP and the Director In particular with the new digital technology your expert kno...

Page 6: ...r Supply with XLR Cable 1 x Hand Unit with Ramping Wheel 2 x Connecting Cables to Camera 1 x 3m cable and 1 x 0 4m spiral cable 1 x Mounting Bracket for Hand Unit 1 x Aluminum Camera Storage Case 1 x...

Page 7: ...t or Camera Prevent dust from coming inside through the fans Do not install additional software on the Control Unit If doing so product guarantee will become void Do not connect the Control Unit to th...

Page 8: ...2V OUT con nector that pull more than 3A The Weisscam HS 1 Camera is fuse protected with a 6 3V T fuse In case the fuse disconnects the power supply for protection reasons disconect the camera from th...

Page 9: ...A C H F B I D E G A P S Technik Interchangeable Mount B Camera Mount e g PL Mount C Viewfinder Holder D Hand Grip E Ventilation Slots F Battery Plate Anton Bauer Gold Mount G Integrated Adapters for...

Page 10: ...tweight Support LWS M Video In BNC N Video Out BNC O Hand Unit Fischer 6 pin P 12V Power Outlet for Accessories Hirose 4 pin Q BNC Sync for future applications R Firewire Connector S Fiber Optical Lin...

Page 11: ...e 6 Green START STOP Recording Button 7 Hand Unit Program Switch 8 SET LIMITS Button or JUMP Button During Recording 9 Power ON OFF Switch for Hand Unit 10 Accessory Mounting Plate to Attach Hand Unit...

Page 12: ...B 4 1 LED Power On 2 LED Hard Disk Status 3 Screen Settings Menu On Off 4 Select Submenu 5 Navigate right 6 Navigate left 7 Reset Button 8 General Power ON OFF Button Control Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...

Page 13: ...ire 1394 Connectors Backup n Push Switch to Open Keyboard o DVI 1 Out Internal Monitor DVI 2 Out Only usable if GRAPHIC CARD OUT is disconnected p Video Splitter In S VIDEO q Sound Connectors r 4x USB...

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Page 15: ...M HS 1 with standard speed HD cameras or with film cameras WEISSCAM HS 1 is an effect camera for high speed shots with a single CMOS sensor whe reas HD cameras have three CCD sensors and film is film...

Page 16: ...orithm or the faster color algo rithm Focus When shooting high speed you normally struggle with the focus because the depth of field is very shallow It always helps to fix the camera and mark the focu...

Page 17: ...ire Cable External Monitor BNC Video Cable Power Cable CONTROL UNIT left side right Graphic Card Out Power Cable External Monitor BNC Video Cable CAMERA HAND UNIT Video Signal for Viewfinder FOL Conne...

Page 18: ...put caps onto the connectors when you do not use them Do not bridge the Main IEEE 1394 with one of the two IEEE 1394 backup plugs These are for backup use in case the Main IEEE 1394 is out of order L...

Page 19: ...mpressed voltage too high above 16 volts RISK OF DAMAGE Please change power supply _ Flashing green orange impressed voltage slightly too high between 15 and 16 volts No problem for shot time Appears...

Page 20: ...the appropriate positions Turn the wheel to Limit 1 Press the blue SET LIMITS button until the blue light is lit continuously Move the wheel to Limit 2 Press the blue SET LIMITS JUMP button until the...

Page 21: ...ress SET LIMITS until the blue LED for Limit 1 is lit con tinuously Press SET LIMITS again until the second blue LED for Limit 2 is lit continuously Release the SET LIMITS button and the two blue LEDs...

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Page 23: ...packages on the WEISSCAM software CD or on Partition D of your WEISSCAM Control Unit Quicktime iTunes iTunesSetup Windows Media Player Version 10 MP10setup WEISSCAMware set all options and ignore erro...

Page 24: ...e Hotfix open the file named pco_kb885222 zip on your Weisscam Software CD Read the PDF file Install KB885222 thoroughly Then run PCO_KB885222 exe IMPORTANT If you attach another Firewire Card to your...

Page 25: ...software is already open in background It is only possible to work with one alias of the software Close the second software window and work with the window which is already open Window View Color Cli...

Page 26: ...d In this mode auto max fps with 1 FPS is possible Soft Trigger for software trigger and exposure time and frame rate by hand In this mode auto mix fps with 1 FPS is not possible External Exp Start fo...

Page 27: ...u want to record with the full sensor Press Accept to save your changes to the ROI Attention You are recording square pixel HD are square pixel but PAL and NTSC are NON square pixel Dis cuss this fact...

Page 28: ...lower speeds till ca 500 fps and slightly bet ter quality Pixelclock 86 for higher speed Caution Camera heats up faster 4 CamRam Select segments Maybe neccessary for motion control shots Use smaller...

Page 29: ...e Auto for normal recording Do not activate External Timestamp No Stamp Record Stop Mode Off You just need Sequence or Ring Buffer in this window Status Line One mouse click in the status line shows t...

Page 30: ...or matrix To receive the required color scheme you need a color algorithm You can work with different color algorithms and separate the Viewing color algorithm from the File Saving algorithm To prepar...

Page 31: ...used for liquids sports PCO Filter for the highest quality crispy images and slower ren dering with a reduced mosaicing effect This is the algorithm you should use if you have got the time If you have...

Page 32: ...a crisp but a little slower preview and live picture If you choose PCO or PCO Filter color algorithm the preview will not run smoothly Run the following settings View Marker ON if you want to work wit...

Page 33: ...ARE E 11 OPERATOR S GUIDE BOOK 4 Go to Toolbar and set the following Main ON Cursor Display ON Math Function OFF Recorder ON Show Speed Bar ON If the Speed Bar is OFF you cannot control the playback s...

Page 34: ...E 12 5 Go to Misc Recommended settings Infotext OFF Scroll Mode OFF View image info OFF Camera order OFF Image time stamp OFF Application Logfile OFF Driver Logfile OFF...

Page 35: ...iew Optimize the window size by zooming right mouse click and dragging the window Optimize focus and t stop 2 Press Live Preview again to get a freezed image and do the white balance adjustment If the...

Page 36: ...han two steps it s better to use more light sources High Gain values will increase noise in the image Find the appropriate white balance with moving the RGB curves care fully with the little red arrow...

Page 37: ...again The Camera and the Control Unit are now ready to shoot Image Control Control the whole image Remember you shooting digital That means Soft lighting The image is supposed to be lit within 5 T st...

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Page 39: ...recorded the full 4 GB RAM Always wait until the indicator is full 5 Press the STOP button The sequence is now recorded and stored in the RAM of the camera The total amount of recorded images is show...

Page 40: ...ure at this moment As soon as the recording starts you will see the live recording picture To get a live picture you may stay in Live Preview and change to record just before recording or you record w...

Page 41: ...e you do not press the red Record button 2 Change Preview Speed by moving the marker of the Speed Bar to the right faster or to the left slower Set the speed to approximately 25 fps for normal review...

Page 42: ...open it You have two hard disks in your Control Unit One is an internal hard disk which has two partitions Partition one C SYSTEM is for programs and partition two DATA is for data storage Use the pa...

Page 43: ...n 6 Carefully choose the file type 8 bit tiff uncompressed gives you the best quality You may prefer avi files with uncompressed full frames but you have to check this with your customer in advance Do...

Page 44: ...Copy Data Transfer Connect the external hard drive to the USB2 0 connector of the Control Unit Make a copy of all recorded files whenever you have time It is not good to do the safety copy at the end...

Page 45: ...e with the chosen image size and pixelclock The smaller the image size the higher the max frame rate Reducing horizontal lines increases the frame rate reducing verti cal lines does not affect the fra...

Page 46: ...Ex Time 1 50 100 00 007 964 000 00 008 433 000 add any Ex Time 1 100 200 00 002 963 000 00 003 433 000 add any Ex Time 1 200 250 00 001 964 000 00 002 434 000 add any Ex Time 1 250 300 00 001 297 000...

Page 47: ...1 870 1000 00 000 115 000 add any Ex Time 1 1000 1150 00 000 000 000 add any Ex Time 1 1150 ss ms us ns ss ms us ns Delay at 640x480 pixel FPS Delay at pc 67 Delay at pc 86 Exposure 25 00 039 030 000...

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Page 49: ...orking and the connection functions properly then the Firewire FOL converter inside the control unit might not work What to do If all other solutions failed we advise to get in contact with P S Techni...

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Page 51: ...rantee that the light is 100 flicker free no matter if they are old or new An additional advantage of the WEISSCAM HS 1 is that you can see and check the image on set in realtime and see if there is a...

Page 52: ...stem you can easily switch between PL mount Nikon F mount delivery content Additional mounts are available for the following lens types Canon EF BNC R Panavison etc You cannot use B4 mount lenses beca...

Page 53: ...6mm film lenses on the WEISSCAM HS 1 because the lens will not light the whole sensor You cannot mount 2 3 lenses because these will not light the whole sensor Lightweight Support The camera body fits...

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Page 57: ...42 6ECTORSCOPE 6 ISTOGRAM 0LAYBACK ONSOLE 6IEWPORT 3HOWN HERE IN FULLSCREEN MODE 0RESS OLOR 0ICKER CLICK ON IMAGE EFT OUSE UTTON RAG VER THE VIEWPORT 3HOW COLOR SAMPLER CURSOR VER THE TIME LINE 3ET PL...

Page 58: ...to double current speed PgUp Speed up playback by 1fps PgDn Slow down playback by 1fps ALT S Toggle shuttle mode for scrubbing Mouse Actions Left Mouse Button Drag Over the viewport Show color sample...

Page 59: ...ELINE URRENT FRAME ASE FRAME RATE FPS 5SER SPECIlED FPS CTUAL FPS HANNEL 0LAYBACK MODE LOOP PING PONG SINGLE RUN YCLE THROUGH WITH 6ECTORSCOPE ISTOGRAM 3EQUENCE ROWSER REATE 3NAPSHOT 2EMOVE 3NAPSHOT 3...

Page 60: ...gle RAW file loading settings dialog CTRL S Save IRCP file preliminary S Activate Settings Dialog SHIFT CONTROL ALT S Toggle statistics dialog 0LAYLIST DD DELETE SEQUENCES AND SET IN OUT POINTS 42 mIP...

Page 61: ...okmarks F2 CTRL CursorRight Next bookmark SHIFT F2 CTRL CursorL eft Previous bookmark CTRL F2 Toggle bookmark CTRL CursorUp Set bookmark CTRL CursorDown Reset bookmark ALT F2 Set bookmarks to playlist...

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Page 63: ...2 x Composite 2 x Component 90 230 V 420 x 280 x 230 mm 16 5 x 11 x 9 1 inch 16 5 kg 36 4 lb 8 bit tiff uncompressed avi 10 bit DPX create MPEG files for proxys Any image format from 10 x 1 pixel to...

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Page 65: ...lues with the mouse cursor Record your sequence Software Triggering or Hand Unit Triggering Preview your recorded sequence and note Cut In and Cut Out points Download your sequence from Camera Export...

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