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MALLINCAM HD-10
[Version 1.1]
Michael Burns
Rock Mallin
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Mallincam HD-10 User Manual
This document will quickly introduce you to the wonders of the Mallincam HD-10
Camera. We will include instructions on how to install the Software and Drivers and
how connect the HD-10 to your HDMI Monitor or computer along with explanations of
the camera's major settings. The purpose of this guide is to quickly get you up and
running with the HD-10 Camera so that you can image the skies and share your
passion with others.
HD-10 User Manual
Revision Sheet
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  • Page 1 HD-10 to your HDMI Monitor or computer along with explanations of the camera’s major settings. The purpose of this guide is to quickly get you up and running with the HD-10 Camera so that you can image the skies and share your passion with others.

  • Page 2: Revision History

    Revision Sheet Revision History Version Date Revision Description 07/07/2017 Template Creation 02/01/2018 Typo Corrections HD-10 User Manual Page ii...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    The Mallincam HD-10 with a Computer ..................17 Connecting the HD-10 to your Computer ...................17 First Time Installation of Software ........................17 Starting on the HD-10 on the Computer ......................23 The ISCapture Window ............................. 24 HD-10 Quick Setup and Pictorial Work-Flow ..................25 Detailed Work-Flow Procedures........................
  • Page 4 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Denoise ................................. 29 White Balance ..............................30 Histogram (Brightness) ..........................32 Capture a Still Image ............................34 Capture a Video Sequence ..........................35 HD-10 Control Software ........................36 HD-10 Control Bar ..........................36 Connected Camera Selector ........................36 Action Tabs ............................36...
  • Page 5 When I save my AVI Video it only saves part of the Video.............. 67 My HD-10 is frozen, or the commands do not seem to be working correctly......67 My Image on the Screen is great, but when I try to Modify it, the image is all White....67 Appendix C: Notes ..........................68...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    July 7, 2017 1. Introduction The Mallincam HD-10 is a world first ever produced true HD High Definition live video camera for astronomical work, whose output is HDMI. The new MallinCam HD-10 has a computer, memories and processor all built in the camera which can be used as a stand-alone unit without any external computer assistance.

  • Page 7: The Contents Of The Hd-10 - Package

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 The Contents of the HD-10 - Package Specifications: CCD sensor: Sony CMOS sensor Sensor size: 5.6. x 3.2 mm Active pixel array size: 1945 (H) × 1097 (V) (2.1 Mega Pixels) Pixel size: 2.9 x 2.9 microns...

  • Page 8: Included In Package

    ⑥ Flash drive containing software installation files ⑦ 1.25” eyepiece adapter ⑧ AC Power Supply You can use your own wireless mouse with the HD-10. This will make it easier to control the camera, rather than be tethered so close to the camera. HD-10 User Manual...

  • Page 9: Installing Driver And Software

    Installing the Software Visit the Software Downloads Page in the Support Tab located on the website: Step 1 www.mallincam.net Select the Blue Click Here Button to download the HD-10 Driver. Step 2 After you have clicked on the Blue Click Here indicator, a zipped file will be downloaded onto your computer.

  • Page 10: The Mallincam Hd-10 With A Hdmi Monitor

    • HDMI Monitor (with power cable) Remove the rubber dust cover from the front of the HD-10 camera (place it back in the box for safe keeping). Screw in the 1.25” nose piece adapter to the front of the HD-10.
  • Page 11 Move the mouse to the Left Side of the screen and the Photo and Setting Icons will appear on the monitor’s screen. Clicking on Photo Icon will have the HD-10 take an image and store it on the SD card. ➢...

  • Page 12: Hd-10 Control Icons

    July 7, 2017 HD-10 Control Icons The following image provides a fast description and location of the various Control Icon that are available for you to control the Mallincam HD-10 camera using just a HDMI Monitor. Mouse on Left Side of...

  • Page 13: Detailed Icon Description

    Detailed Icon Description Camera Icon Clicking on this Icon will tell the Mallincam HD-10 to save the current image on the SD card inserted into the back on the camera. The format of the image will be JPEG (.jpg). Once the image has been saved, the HD-10 Camera will revert back to live view.

  • Page 14: Image Action Window

    Division Cancel Click on this Icon to return the Image Window to the full current image being picked up by the HD-10. This Icon control is used after using the Compare Images Icon. Inset a Crossline Click on this Icon to place a Red Crosshair on the Image Window. Click on the Icon again to change the crosshairs to Green.
  • Page 15 Click on this Icon to Display currently saved images on the SD card. A larger box will contain the live image from the HD-10 camera. Located on the bottom of the screen are controls to scan forward (right arrow) or backward (left arrow) through other images on the SD card.

  • Page 16: Imaging With The Camera

    Click on the bottom icon (the Settings Icon), and a Settings Control Window will pop-up. The HD-10 remembers when this window is clicked open, and it will automatically appear when you next move the mouse icon to the left side of your monitor.

  • Page 17: Gamma

    Too much amplification can cause noise in the image. The next three commands will allow us to tweak the image further by adjusting the Gamma, Contrast, and Saturation values on the HD-10. By using the mouse cursor, Left-Click-Hold-and-Drag the slider bar of each of the Gamma, Step 5 Contrast, and Saturation controls to produce an image that meets your requirements.

  • Page 18: Brightness

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 The next three commands will allow us to tweak the colors of the image further by adjusting the Red, Green, and Blue values. By using the mouse cursor, Left-Click-Hold-and-Drag the slider bar of each of the Red, Step 6 Green, and Blue controls to produce an image whose colors that meets your requirements.
  • Page 19 IMG0001.JPG. To Start a .avi (VID001.AVI) recording of the images being captured on HD-10, just click on the Video Camera Icon. The status timer will appear and the lower right side of the image indicating how long the video currently is.

  • Page 20: The Mallincam Hd-10 With A Computer

    Laptop or Computer First Time Installation of Software Copy the ISCaptue Software from the provided USB Stick (or the latest download from Mallincam.net) into folder of your choice on your computer. Unzip the ISCapture Software Right-Click -> Extract All ➢...
  • Page 21 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 An Acceptance Window will now appear. Either accept the file location for the ISCApture Software to be installed in or choose a folder of your choice. We recommend accepting the default location. Click on Next to pop-up the Codec Plugin window.
  • Page 22 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Select the codecs to include if you plan on recording your imaging. Click on Next to accept the Confirmation Windows. Click on Yes to accept and then the Xvid Setup Window will appear.
  • Page 23 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Choose the “I accept the agreement” bubble, then Click on Next to accept the agreement and then the final setup verification Window will appear. HD-10 User Manual Page 20...
  • Page 24 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 A sequence of Windows will now appear for choosing the folder location and names. We recommend choosing the default and selecting Next. HD-10 User Manual Page 21...
  • Page 25 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Once the software is installed the final Completed Window will appear to inform you that the installation is finished. Click on Finish to acknowledge. Once complete, you will now have a ISCapture Icon on your desktop.

  • Page 26: Starting On The Hd-10 On The Computer

    Attach the provided usb cable from the MallinCam HD-10 to a usb port on your Computer. Plugin the AC Power Adapter into the back of the HD-10 (a Red will indicate that the camera has power) Power on the HD-10 by pressing on the ON/OFF button located on back of the camera.

  • Page 27: The Iscapture Window

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 The ISCapture Window The IsCapture Software Window is segmented into a few regions to make viewing and adjusting the HD-10 camera easy and intuitive. The Camera Selection Bar ① Display Window. ② Feature Tabs.

  • Page 28: Hd-10 Quick Setup And Pictorial Work-Flow

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 HD-10 Quick Setup and Pictorial Work-Flow A typical workflow when using the HD-10. Start HD-10 HDMI Monitor Computer Set Exposure Set Exposure Adjust Image Adjust Image Save Images Save Images Exit Program Exit Program...

  • Page 29: Detailed Work-Flow Procedures

    HD-10 Control Software below. Exposure Step 1 Once you have HD-10 ISCapture program up and running, you should see an image of whatever the HD-10 camera is looking at (at whatever exposure setting the software is set at).

  • Page 30: Gain

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Now if you would like to set the Manual Exposure time to the current Auto Exposure time then follow this technique. Click on the Manual Exposer Bubble Button to select it. Now, Click back on the Auto Exposer Bubble Button to again select it.

  • Page 31: Gamma, Contrast, And Saturation

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Gamma, Contrast, and Saturation Step 3 Located in the Color Control Tab are the three controls called Gamma, Contrast, and Saturation. By using the mouse cursor, Left-Click-Hold-and-Drag the slider bar of each of the Gamma, Contrast, and Saturation controls to produce an image that meets your requirements.

  • Page 32: Red, Green, And Blue

    If after making control adjustment of your image and it looks worse that when you started (this happens as you slowly learn what controls best work for your system), you can display Click on the Default Button located beneath the Sharpen Control. The Mallincam HD-10 will reset all of the controls back to their defaults.

  • Page 33: White Balance

    July 7, 2017 White Balance Different planetary objects in combinations with difference telescopes, may throw off the colour balance of the HD-10. We can bring everything back to normal by using the White Balance control which is located in the Main Control.
  • Page 34 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 White Balance controls are also available in the Color Control Tab, You have the option of selection an area of your image, and using that portion of the image as your white standard.

  • Page 35: Histogram (Brightness)

    These tools allow you to manually or automatically adjust the image levels of all color components the image that the HD-10 camera is producing. You have manual control of the image levels when the Auto checkbox is un-checked.
  • Page 36 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Black Arrow Slider When moved to the right will reveal more detail in bright areas of the image, when moved to the left will produce less detail in bright area of image Grey Arrow Slider When moved to the left or right, adjusts the detail in the brightness zones in the image.

  • Page 37: Capture A Still Image

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Capture a Still Image Step 9 You now have your masterpiece on the screen (the Moon, a Planet), and you would like to save it for bragging rights. But, before we perform this task we need to tell the software the format we would like to save our images in, and more importantly, where we would like to save our images.

  • Page 38: Capture A Video Sequence

    Step 10 So, you might be thinking that still captures are good, but video captures are better. Well, let’s save a short video of what our Mallincam HD-10 is looking at. Since we have already told the software which folder to save our image in (see above), it is now time to save a video sequence.

  • Page 39: Hd-10 Control Software

    July 7, 2017 HD-10 Control Software This section covers in detail all the controls and settings in the various regions of the HD-10 Control Software. It will take a while to become comfortable with them, but the reward is worth the effort.

  • Page 40: Capture Tab

    Capture Tab The Capture Tab is the main Tab used for viewing your live images form the HD-10 camera. The top line will indicate the current frame rate in fps (frames per second). The faster your computer (or the lower resolution of your HD-10) the higher the display rate.

  • Page 41: Live Image Resolution

    HD-10 camera can save the images in. The smaller the resolution (2 x 2 binning) the smaller files. For video, the HD-10 will be able to save more frames per Captured second in the video sequence when a smaller Image resolution is chosen.

  • Page 42: Lock Wb

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 By Left-Clicking on this check-box the software will Lock WB lock the current white balance. This Wizard was designed for a microscope application, but I found it works well for astronomy White Balance...

  • Page 43: Saved Image Format

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Feature Title Usage This drop-down selector allows you to choose from a list of available formats that the HD-10 software can save your image in. Formats include: Saved Image Format • bmp (Bitmap) – can be read by most graphics programs •...

  • Page 44: File Name

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 When the Use Time-stamped is selected (checked), the image or video will be saved using a Time Format structure. This structure is in the form of MMDDHHmmss ➢ MM –two digit Month ➢ DD – two digit Day ➢...

  • Page 45: Record Video

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Now if the Continuous Shooting checkbox is selected, then when you Click on the Button (located at top of the Capture Tab), the software will start the image taking process saving them in the designated Path with the chosen File Name settings indicating the image names (name or time stamped) to use.
  • Page 46 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Note: Large time or frame values will create large video avi files. Sometimes the length of these files is larger than the Windows avi format allows and the image may look totally Black when being viewed from a video viewer such as Windows Media Player (the avi index is not created correctly).

  • Page 47: Exposure Tab

    Exposure Tab It is here in the Exposure Tab that you have complete control of the exposure process. You can have the HD-10 camera try to pick the best exposure for the current image, or you can take control of the exposure yourself.

  • Page 48: Manual Exposure

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 This setting allows you to manually adjust the Exposure Time for the HD-10 camera. You will currently be able to adjust the time from about 0 seconds to 10 seconds. Once selected you can now adjust the exposure in several ways.

  • Page 49: Gain

    Theoretically 8 bit provides 2^8 = 256 grey levels to represent the image, while 16 bit provides 2^16 = 65536 grey levels. Note: Either setting saves the image at 24 bits with the HD-10 series of cameras. HD-10 User Manual Page 46...

  • Page 50: Color Control Tab

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Color Control Tab It is here in the Color Control Tab that you can adjust the visual appearance of the displayed image. You have the ability to adjust the: • Gamma • Contrast •...

  • Page 51: Contrast

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 This setting allows you to manually adjust the Contrast of the image, that is, the difference scale between dark and light parts of your image. A high contrast value will make the shadows become darker and highlights become brighter, thus loosing image details.

  • Page 52: White Balance

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 These controls allow you to control the White Balance for your image, that is, get the colors of your image as accurate as you can. To obtain the best white balance use the following procedures: •...

  • Page 53: Green Balance

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 This control allows you to control the intensity of Green color in your image. To adjust this parameter: • Left-Click and Hold on the slider arrow to Green Balance drag it to the left or right to adjust the Green intensity.

  • Page 54: Sharpen

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 This control allows you to adjust the Sharpness of the camera, that is, how distinct the image looks. The higher the value the more precise the edges of image will become. To adjust the Sharpness: •...

  • Page 55: Blacklevel

    BlackLevel is 1. These tools allow you to manually or automatically adjust the image levels of all color components the image that the HD-10 camera is producing. You have manual control of the image levels when the Auto checkbox is un-checked.

  • Page 56: Black Balance

    To turn off the Black Balance, use the Default button located in the Color Control Tab. This Control is planned for future releases. Its Capture Mode purpose is to improve the capture quality of images taken from the Mallincam HD-10 camera. HD-10 User Manual Page 53...

  • Page 57: Parameter Tab

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Parameter Tab Because of the varied setting adjustments that can be made when fine tuning the image, the software provides this Parameter Tab to save those settings. The Parameter Tab will provide you the ability to save up to 4 Parameter sets.

  • Page 58: Capture Tab Action Keys

    Capture Tab Action Keys On the right-hand side of the HD-10 Control Software screen you will see Action keys with symbolic icons. The action keys for the Capture Tab is slightly different for the action keys for the Browse Tab.

  • Page 59: Browse Tab

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Browse Tab The Browse Tab is the location where you will examine saved images from this session or from previous sessions. You can think of this Tab location as the Image Management area of the Software.

  • Page 60: Browse Tab Action Keys

    Browse Tab Action Keys On the right-hand side of the HD-10 Control Software screen you will see Action keys with symbolic icons. The action keys for the Browse Tab is slightly different for the action keys for the Capture Tab.

  • Page 61: Appendix

    The HD-10 Control Software is not capable of modifying the Video Image and having that Video Image be directly captured by NSN Flash. So, if you want to use all the features of the HD-10 software and broadcast those results, as well as save screen shots and videos of your images, then we need another program to capture the HD-10’s Software...
  • Page 62 Double Click on the HD-10 Control Software icon. Get the image of your object on the Image Window of the HD-10 Software, adjust the settings on the software for your planned object and size the window so you have room for other software on your monitor real-estate.
  • Page 63 Manycam/Splitcam/Webcam Max window from your desktop (it should now appear on the bottom of your desktop monitor), but note that the software is still running and still has hold of your desktop (HD-10 VIDEO Software) image location. HD-10 User Manual...
  • Page 64 /Splitcam/ Webcam Max will still grab the desktop location, but may not grab the whole HD- 10 Video Image. Don’t be afraid to practice moving the HD-10 Software window when not broadcasting to learn how it affects the displayed Manycam/ Splitcam/ WebcamMax Window.
  • Page 65 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Step 9 Allow Adobe Flash to use your Manycam/Splitcam/WebcamMax Adobe Flash Player Settings window will pop up on your screen asking you for permission to use your camera and your microphone. Select Allow.
  • Page 66 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Step 11 Set a message for the NSN observers It is a good idea to display a message above the NSN display window, so that the other NSN views understand what you are doing. When initially setting up (which usually takes longer when you are learning), I usually type the message “Setting Up the...
  • Page 67 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 ➢ CLICK CLOSE to Continue (After you have selected WebCamMax , SplitCam, or ManyCam). NSN will remember what camera you chose from the last visit. So usually you only have to go through this process whenever you want to change what camera device you would like the NSN flash driver to use.
  • Page 68 That’s it, you are done. If everything is working well and the Window’s gods are in a good mood, you should be broadcasting whatever object the HD-10 is capturing. You should now enter another Message and SEND it out to indicate what system you are using and what object you are viewing.

  • Page 69: Appendix B - First Aid For The Hd-10

    Appendix B – First Aid for the HD-10 The HD-10 Software says it can’t find the Camera Diagnosis: This software automatically looks for the HD-10 camera when it starts. If it cannot locate the camera attached to a USB Port, it will present this message. Cure: First step: Make sure the blue LED light on the camera is lit.

  • Page 70: When I Save My Avi Video It Only Saves Part Of The Video

    ManyCam, Spltcam, and WebCamMax also have the ability to save videos. My HD-10 is frozen, or the commands do not seem to be working correctly. Diagnosis: Somehow the HD-10 internals have become corrupted (power surge, static, cosmic ray) and all we need to do is reboot the camera and software.

  • Page 71: Appendix C: Notes

    Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 Appendix C: Notes _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ HD-10 User Manual Page 68...
  • Page 72 Mallincam HD-10 User Manual July 7, 2017 HD-10 Quick Guide Page 1...

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