User Guide

This manual is a provisional version only.

The sensor unit houses the CCD; the digital capturing component of

the H2D camera. This light-sensitive element is called an area array

CCD (charge coupled device), which acts as computer-readable elec-

tronic ‘ﬁlm’. The surface of the CCD has 22 million light-sensitive areas,

each of which creates a pixel in your final digital image. In a colour

digital image each pixel has three colour components: red, green and

blue (abbreviated RGB). The pixels in the sensor unit’s CCD are ﬁltered

to create three images – one of each colour – which are later combined

by the software to create a single full colour image.

The H2D can store captured images in three ways:

• Untethered − directly onto a CF card

• Tethered − via a FireWire cable onto a Hasselblad Image Bank CF

• Tethered − via a FireWire cable onto a computer hard disk

The sensor unit has its own controls and graphic interface in the form

of a bright and clear OLED. The built-in digital light meter, with full

histogram display and audio exposure warnings, helps to ensure a

perfect exposure.

When using the camera tethered in a studio you can control all the dig-

ital aspects of camera operation from a computer using the FlexColor

image capturing software. See the “FlexColor Software Reference”

manual for details.

Sensor Unit – Physical Features

Safety catch A

Used when removing the sensor unit.

CCD and IR ﬁlter B

is is the light-sensitive element, which is positioned behind

a permanently mounted IR ﬁlter. Usually, this assembly will

either be inside the camera or protected by plastic cover.

Always be very careful not to touch or scratch the surface of

the ﬁlter when it is exposed and to replace the plastic cover

whenever the sensor unit is not mounted to a camera.

 WARNING: never attempt to remove the glass ﬁlter—you

will probably ruin the CCD if you do so.

See special section for cleaning.

FireWire connector C

Insert a FireWire 800 cable here to connect the sensor unit

to a computer or Image Bank CF.

Mounting plate D

is plate, which has a slot just behind it, ﬁts onto the

magazine retaining hook on the back.