Reading And Changing Approval Status - Hasselblad 503CW User Manual

Standard Instant Approval workflow
The standard method of working with the Instant Approval Architecture is as follows:
1. Take a shot.
2. The camera analyzes the shot to find out if it seems to be over- or underexposed. If it
suspects a problem, it does the following:
• Provides audio feedback (if this option has been chosen) by making a warning sound,
which immediately alerts you to a possible problem even if you are not looking at the
screen. The warning sound is a rapid string of notes going up the musical scale if the
image is judged as overexposed or conversely a rapid string of notes going down the
musical scale if the image is judged as underexposed
• Downgrades the approval status to yellow (if Approval is set to 'Auto').
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Note that some shots may trigger the warning even though they are exposed according to
your intentions. You should consider these warnings only as a guideline. This feature can
be turned off.
3. If no problem is detected, then the image is saved with green status.
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If you set Approval to 'Auto', all images will be stored as Green if judged as correct and Yellow
if judged as technically doubtful. No images are ever stored as Red automatically!
4. When you are browsing through your shots, keep an eye on the approval status of
each and consider whether you should promote or demote each shot based on its
appearance on the preview screen. You can also apply a browse filter to, for exam-
ple, browse only red shots when looking for images to delete or to browse only green
shots to make sure you have a good version of each shot that you need.
5. When you begin working with the images on your computer, use the approval sta-
tus as a guide for organizing your work. For example, you might begin by opening
and optimizing the green shots and then go to the yellow shots only if you still need
more images and then, finally, check the red shots as a last resort.
Note that the system is very flexible so you can use it in any way that you like. For example,
you can set the camera to assign all new images a yellow or green status regardless of the
exposure warning. Be careful when assigning red status because red images may be deleted
if the current storage medium becomes full.
Reading and changing the approval status
The current approval status of each shot is indicated in two ways:
• In most preview modes, the current status is indicated by a colored dot in the bottom-
right corner of the screen.
• Each image is given a name that indicates its approval status. Approved (green) im-
age names start with "A" (e.g., "A0000043"); warning (yellow) images start with "B"
(e.g., "B0000043"); and images marked for delete (red) start with "C". Because of this
naming convention, you will also be able to sort your image files by status after you
have copied them to your computer (e.g., by listing the folder by file name).
See also the diagram showing where you can read the image name and approval status
on the screen.
By keeping an eye on the file name and/or colored dot as you browse your images at the
single-image, four-thumbnail or nine-thumbnail level, you can easily see the current ap-
proval status of each of them.
To change the approval status of the currently displayed/selected image, simply press the
approval button until the desired approval status is shown.
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