Sinarcam Users Guide; Overview; Important Safeguards And Precaution; Limitation - Sinarcam Multipurpose Digital Camera User Manual

Sinarcam Version 1.4 Users Guide

1. Overview

The Sinarcam is a new multipurpose digital camera that can be used as a stand alone system or in
conjunction with a sinar view camera. Various accessories can be combined in numerous
configurations thus continuing the famous modular system of sinar. You can even use the sinarcam to
take chemical pictures. But in contrast to other cameras that were mainly built for chemical film and
adapted for digital imaging, the sinarcam is truly designed as a digital camera that can be extended in
many different ways. With the sinarcam system you are able to assemble exactly the camera that is
optimally tailored to the assignment at hand.
2. Important Safeguards and Precautions
Handle the equipment as you would any valuable camera. Treat the system as you would your best
lens. Do not drop, expose the camera to extremly low or high temperature, to water and moisture or
to dust and smoke.
Mishandling can damage the system resulting in an expensive repair. Be careful especially when
cleaning the CCD-sensor or the color filters and follow exactly the instruction by Leaf or by Sinar later
in this manual.

3. Limitation

All CCD sensors have certain pixel-errors which normaly are invisible in a digital image due to
software corrections applied to the pixel error. It is however possible that certain pixel errors become
visible when zooming into the image if the surrounding pixels have some certain structure. Especially
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