Mallincam HD-10 II User Manual
March 30, 2020
HD-10 II User Manual
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We will now tweak the
focus
. You may already have a good
focus on your object by adjusting the telescope’s focuser,
but you can have the HD-10 II
automatically
fine tune the
focus for you (
One
—
shot
AF
), or you can
manual
drag the
focus bar to obtain your best focus.
Next, move the mouse cursor to the
Auto Exposure
box, and
make sure it is
checked
. This will give us a starting point for the
exposure setting.
The current exposure value (as determined by the
Auto
Exposure
Control), will now appear in the
Exposure
box.
You can select an exposure range from 1 micro-seconds all the way to 10 seconds
Uncheck
the
Auto Exposure
(the exposure setting will not change), and now by using your
mouse icon.
Click
on the little
up
and
down
arrows in the appropriate Exposure settings
control (
S-seconds
,
100ms
, and
ms
), to provide an exposure value to your liking.
You can also now adjust the
Gain
(
Left-Click-Hold-and-Drag
the
gain slider
) to make the
image brighter or dimmer. You will get more comfortable with finding to best exposure/gain
values for your image. Play with them to see how the exposure and the gain values affects
your image. Gain is a setting that controls the amplification of the signal from the camera
sensor to the screen. Too much amplification can cause noise in the image.
The next five commands will allow us to tweak the image further by adjusting
the
Brightness
,
Sharpness
,
Denoise
,
Gamma
,
Contrast
, and
Saturation
values
on the HD-10 II.
By using the mouse cursor,
Left-Click-Hold-and-Drag
the slider bar of each of the
Brightness
,
Sharpness
,
Denoise, Gamma
,
Contrast,
and
Saturation
controls to produce an image that
meets your requirements.
Brightness
- Traditional brightness simply brightens the entire image from the shadows to
the highlights equally. When increasing brightness, you may find that you lose
some contrast on the brightest details in the image while the rest of the
image has the same contrast as before.
Step 4
Step 5
Step 3