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Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide 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: ¾ One Fire-i™ Digital Color Camera, able to display 30 fps at 640 X 480 with a crystal clear picture ¾ One 2m (6.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Table of Contents Table of Contents .........................................................................................................................3 Software Installation .......................................................................................................... 7 Software Installation for Linux.......................................................................................................
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide 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.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Hardware Installation ¾ Attach the tripod adapter to the tripod. Rotate the roller as depicted below ¾ Attach the tripod adapter to the back of the Fire-i™ Digital Camera. ¾ Connect the included 6-pin cable to your Fire-i™ Digital Camera.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide ¾ Please select one of the following options: • You have a desktop computer (PC or Mac) with built-in FireWire port(s) : Connect the included 6-pin cable to your FireWire adapter and proceed to the next steps for the software installation. • You have a desktop computer (PC or Mac) without FireWire ports: Please shutdown your computer fully and disconnect it from the power plug.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Software Installation Software Installation for Linux There is a specific file inside the Linux folder of the CD to describe the installation process. Please consult: README.txt located in the Linux Folder. Software Installation for PC: Fire-i™ Software Application Important Note: Many Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) have been answered on unibrain website: http://www.unibrain.com/support/FAQ_Fire-i_DC.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide i. ii. Prepare • Check that your operating system is one of the supported (Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista or XP 64 bit). • Important Remark for Windows XP: although the use of the latest Microsoft Service Pack is usually recommended, please consider that the application of SP2 in Windows XP may reduce your FireWire bandwidth to 100 Mbps if any 1394b adapter or 1394b device is connected. Please consult us at support@unibrain.
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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.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Press ‘Continue Anyway’ and click ‘Finish’ on the last window.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide Now, the Unibrain driver will be loaded and appear as below in the Windows device manager: iv. 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)”. You can connect your first camera before or after starting the program.
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. After the camera being connected to your PC, it will appear in the Fire-i Software Application Window.
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. For those systems with iChat when the camera is connected iChat will start automatically.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide General Tips Daisy Chaining your Fire-i™ Digital Camera Your Fire-i™ Digital camera can be daisy chained, as shown in the photo. A great advantage of that structure is that all the cameras are powered from one power supply located anywhere on the 1394 bus. This could be the 1394 adapter in case of a computer or a DC adapter connected to one of the cameras or even a DC powered repeater connected somewhere on the bus.
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). The FireWire bus voltage will adapt automatically when needed. A built-in diode avoids any risk of voltages conflict or reverse current flow.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide How to get the best camera picture Fire-i™ Digital Camera is an IIDC camera. Purpose of using such cameras, featuring uncompressed transmission of the picture, is to get high quality results. Correct adjustment is critical in order to achieve a nice picture display and acquisition. This chapter presents some basic recommendations. Please apply them in following order. i.
Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide • Move the U/B cursor until a position showing the less blue and the less yellow tint in the picture; then move the V/R cursor until a position showing the less green and the less red tint in the picture; repeat such iterations on U/B and V/R cursors until the picture looks totally black and white. • Reset the saturation control to its default level. • Aim at objects of different colors in the same lighting environment, to confirm a good result.
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.
