Manual

nearly solid line), you’ve found the exposure that will give you the best scan results
for the object.
Manual Control Tab
Manual Control tab w/ Color Detection tab
selected
Manual Control tab w/ Laser Detection tab
selected
The Manual Control tab is where you pick the camera exposure for capturing the
color of the object, and for capturing the laser lines.
A note about exposure: Each of the exposure sliders (in the Color Detection tab and in
the Laser Detection tab) are labelled -9 on the left and 0 on the right with -9 being the
brightest exposure and 0 as the darkest. The camera shutter is open for a longer
period of time at setting -9, letting in more light. Conversely, 0 is dark because the
camera shutter is only open for short period of time, so less light gets in. Simply put,
the longer the exposure, the brighter the image.
As you use the scanner you will notice that sometimes the lasers fire quickly, and
sometimes they fire slowly. This is directly related to the exposure. Darker objects
require a brighter exposure (i.e. the shutter has to be open longer) while lighter
colored objects require a darker exposure (i.e. the shutter has to be open for a shorter
period of time). Therefore, a darker-colored object will take longer to scan than a
lighter-colored object.
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