User guide

Introduction

STINGRAY Technical Manual V4.4.4

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V4.4.1 07.01.11 • Minor corrections

• Converted FrameMaker files from FM7 to FM9

• Added required minimum number of GrabCount value (2)

for HIGH_SNR ON in Table 151: Advanced register: High Sig-

nal Noise Ratio (HSNR) on page 321

• Added info that for 8-bit video modes, the internal HSNR

calculations are done with 14 bit: Chapter High SNR mode

(High Signal Noise Ratio) on page 168

• Changed tripod drawing: added dimensions of three big

holes (M6 and UNC 1/4-20) in Figure 25: Tripod dimensions

on page 74.

• Added Windows 7 support and revised Windows XP/

Windows Vista in in Chapter FireWire and operating

systems on page 42

V4.4.2 15.04.11 • Added sensitivity curves for Stingray F-125B/F-125C:

see Figure 13: Spectral sensitivity of Stingray F-125B on

page 66 and

see Figure 14: Spectral sensitivity of Stingray F-125C

(without IR cut filter) on page 66

C-/CS-Mount no more adjustable, for modifications contact

Customer Care and send camera to AVT:

• See Chapter Specifications on page 46ff.

• See Chapter Adjustment of C-Mount and CS-Mount on page

85.

Stingray firmware update round:

• Defect pixel correction: you don’t need to set value for

brightness to max. any more: see Figure 66: Defect pixel

correction: build and store on page 142 and Chapter Grab

an image with defect pixel data on page 143

• Besides in Mono8 mode defect pixel correction is also

possible in Raw8 mode: see note in Chapter Building

defect pixel data on page 143

• Revised Chapter Defect pixel correction on page 140

• Image is shot internally during calculating a mean value:

see note in Chapter Calculate defect pixel coordinates on

page 143

• Activate HSNR mode to improve defect pixel correction:

see note in Chapter Building defect pixel data on page 143

• Added descriptions for defect pixel correction in F7 modes:

see Chapter Building defect pixel correction image in

Format_7 modes on page 141

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