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2.10.4 Low Battery Indicator
● Yellow diode is on.
● ● ●
Red diode is evenly flashing.
The LCD control panel displays Lo Batt.
2.10.5 Low Speed Indicator
●
Yellow diode is on.
● ● ● Red diode is blinking fast.
The LCD control panel displays Lo Speed.
2.11 VIDEO ASSIST
The AATON 35-III accept 4 different video assist: CD52 PAL, CD52
NTSC, CD56 PAl and CD56 NTSC. The CD52 are black & white,
and the CD56 are color.
The control units for all Aaton CCD assists attach quickly to the came-
ra’s housing and can be used with an on-board battery. The video assist
may be used to help the director or operator control their images, or to
prepare the video editing, before the telecine stage.
The following chapter is mostly dedicated to the CD56, which is Aaton’s
high-end model, and is designed to offer high quality, flicker-free color
video assist imaging, burn-in windows, Vitc insertion and a frame line
generator in one integrated system.
2.11.1 The CD56 Color CCD Assist
You may use the CD56 color CCD assist in two different ways.
In some special situations (if you’re filming in the dark for example),
it might be more comfortable to look your images on a monitor
than through the viewfinder. This is why the CD56 is equipped
with a frame line generator: as you can choose the size and position
of the generated frame, the image you see through the viewfinder
(which might be in ratio 1.78 or 1.66 for example) can match exact-
ly the image you see inside the frame on the monitor. Moreover this
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