Image Acquisition; Auto White Balance - Leica DFC Series Manual

Image Acquisition

Auto White Balance

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 To acquire an image with the selected settings for
your archive or the current application, left-click
Acquire , or
 press F3 key.
Depending on the camera type and the settings you
have selected, this process may take anything from a
few milliseconds to several minutes. Sometimes the
image will be exposed several times or each color may
be scanned separately. These processes can take a
long time to execute, even on fast computers, and if so,
will display a progress bar.
If Close after Acquire is checked, DFC Twain will close
after acquisition, otherwise the system is ready for the
next image acquisition.
If Close after Acquire is checked, DFC Twain and the
camera will take the same time to reinitialize, as if from
the start.
You can also make a temporary acquisition by pressing
the F4 key. The acquired image will be located in your
local Temp folder with a filename NewImage.bmp . Each
acquired image using this method will be over-written.
The White Balance function performs a color correction
in the image source in order to display all neutral-
colored components of the image (all gray tones, from
black to white) without any color bias. Thus, the term
Leica DFC Cameras – Image Acquisition Guide