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- Page 1 Technical support: support@unibrain.com Sales Information: sales@unibrain.com Web site: www.unibrain.com...
- Page 2 January 2007 Dear Customer, Thank you for purchasing our Fire-i™ Digital Color Camera, world’s best 1394 small size & general use camera. We are pleased to introduce the new version of its retail package, which includes: One Fire-i™ Digital Color Camera, able to display 30 fps at 640 X 480 with a crystal clear picture One 2m (6.6ft) thin FireWire cable 6-pin to 6-pin...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Table of Contents .........................3 Software Installation ......................7 Software Installation for Linux.......................7 Software Installation for PC: Fire-i™ Software Application ..........7 Prepare ............................8 Install .............................. 8 iii. Camera driver manual installation....................... 8 iv. Run Fire-i Application ........................12 Mac OS Support &... -
Page 4: Technical Support Information
All technical support questions should be directed to the following email address: support@unibrain.com This address is monitored throughout the day by Unibrain’s 1394 support team, who will respond quickly and with the required technical accuracy, to your questions. Please refrain from sending any queries directly to unibrain engineering staff, in order to maintain our support database and make sure that your email will be responded to, in case any specific person is unavailable. -
Page 5: Hardware Installation
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Hardware Installation Attach the tripod adapter to the tripod. Rotate the roller as depicted below Attach the tripod adapter to the back of the Fire-i™ Digital Camera. Connect the included 6-pin cable to your Fire-i™ Digital Camera. - Page 6 Please shutdown your computer fully and disconnect it from the power plug. Open it and install the Unibrain FireBoardBlue™ adapter in any empty PCI slot. You can also use the Unibrain FireboardBlue-e™ adapter only in case of PCI-express local bus. Close the case of the computer, reconnect the power and start.
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Page 7: Software Installation
Fire-i™ is a user friendly software application, designed by Unibrain for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista & XP 64 bit. It will allow the control, display and capture of the image of your Fire-i™ camera(s). The included version is the full version as sold separately by Unibrain. Any number of cameras is supported as long as your computer resources can handle. -
Page 8: Prepare
This will fully install: a. the Fire-i Application, including the collection of provided camera drivers, b. the Fire-i Authorize Utility. Fire-i Authorize Utility is used for licensing (activating) the Fire-i drivers for NON-Unibrain cameras. All Unibrain cameras do not require a license. - Page 9 Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide...
- Page 10 Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide You have to choose the device driver. So, press ‘Have Disk…’and choose the installation directory of the Fire-i application.
- Page 11 Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Press ‘Continue Anyway’ and click ‘Finish’ on the last window.
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Page 12: Run Fire-I Application
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Now, the Unibrain driver will be loaded and appear as below in the Windows device manager: Run Fire-i Application Select from Windows ‘Start Menu / Programs / Fire-i / Fire-i Application. You may of course create immediately a shortcut on your desktop by: mouse right click, “Send To”, “Desktop (create a shortcut)”. - Page 13 Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Important Note: Fire-i Authorize Utility allows the license validation of non unibrain cameras. You will not need it for the Fire-i™ Digital camera, as your camera embeds a hardware license that will automatically be recognized.
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Page 14: Mac Os Support & Applications
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Mac OS Support & Applications The Fire-i Digital Camera can be used with a variety of Mac Applications that require cameras, such as iChat, Astro IIDC, bTV Pro, Skype, etc. Just, connect your Fire-i Digital Camera to your Mac (OS X 10.2.5 and above) and the camera will be automatically installed with the native Macintosh drivers. -
Page 15: General Tips
Fire-i™ Digital Camera is powered by the FireWire bus DC voltage, coming from host adapters or other FireWire devices connected with 6-pin cables. Fire-i™ Digital Camera is provided with a DC power input jack connector that can be used when the FireWire connection does not provide DC power. This happens typically: •... - Page 16 Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Even if the FireWire bus is already powered, the DC power input jack of the camera can also be used to reinforce it (this may be needed for example when using cables longer than 10m to connect one camera with a workstation).
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Page 17: How To Get The Best Camera Picture
66.66 ms. Select 60 ms, otherwise if not possible select 50 ms, 40 ms, 30 ms … White balance The Fire-i™ Digital Camera has an automatic white balance mode set on by default. You may keep this setting if it matches your requirements. Should you want to have a more accurate rendering of the colors, you can use the manual white balance control mode. -
Page 18: Focus
Exposure is a generic word meaning “light level”. It is sometimes confused with shutter. In the Fire-i™ Digital Camera, the light level is controlled by 2 adjustments: gain and shutter. - Page 19 Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide For Mac users, backlight compensation is accessible from the driver. For PC users, backlight compensation can be changed by editing one register in the camera. Select Camera Properties, Camera Info, and edit Offset F0F0081C using values from 82000000 to 82000007.
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