PhaseOne P 20, Reference Manual

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P - Series Reference Manual
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Tethered or untethered operations
The P back can be operated either as a fully portable
unit powered by the embedded battery and shoot-
ing to a compact flash card or micro drive which is
inserted in the CF-card slot on the left side of the cam-
era back.
The advantages of using it as a fully portable device
are obvious, but operating tethered has advantages
too.
First of all when operating in a studio, where con-
nected to a computer via FireWire you are not de-
pendent on battery power or storage media, you can
capture directly to the Phase One Capture One Raw
workflow software on either Mac or PC, powering the
P back via FireWire even without the battery or CF-
card inserted.
When operating tethered you have the option of cap-
turing the images to CF-card or transferring captures
directly to the currently assigned capture folder in the
Capture One application on the computer hard disk.
The display on the P back can either be set to off while
shooting tethered or to display the images while they
are shot, just as if shooting untethered.
When unplugging the P back from the FireWire, the P
back will default to untethered mode, capturing to CF-
card or micro drive, and using the battery for power.
Also when capturing tethered to a laptop with 4 pin
mini 1394/FireWire without power it will require a bat-
tery in the P back.
Using the four menu buttons you can setup the prefer-
ences for all these operational features.
I.e. the display time of the images, time before back-
light is dimmed, ISO, file format and white balance.