NY-F1 Microscope adapter This is instruction for microscopic documentation with NY-F1 microscope adapter * Please refer to the User s Guide (Casio EX-F1) for camera operation. Ⅰ. Setting EX-F1 for Microscope documentation 1-1 Loading battery User s Guide P13 1-2 Loading memory card User s Guide P16 1-3 Language, date, and time setting User s Guide P15 1-4 Menu setting User s Guide P77 Press[MENU]while at the[rec]mode 1 AF assist light REC Tab AF assist light OFF 2 AE/AF lock REC Tab AE/AF lock AF lock 3 Memory REC Tab Memory Flush ON Memory Zoom position ON 4 Sleep Set Up Tab Sleep OFF 5 Auto Power Set Up Tab Auto power off 10min 6 LCD Priority Set Up Tab LCD Priority ON 1-5 BS (best shot) setting User s Guide P67 1 In the [REC] mode, use mode dial to select [BS]
2 Press[SET] 3 Select [Scenery], top 2 nd from the left Ⅱ. Shooting still image. 2-1 Install microscope adapter to camera Rotate microscope adapter along with camera lens s filter thread When it stops and tightly secured, it is ready. 2-2 Install camera to microscope Please refer to our web site for installation of NY-F1 to various types of microscopes. http://www.mecan.co.jp/eng/digicamadapter/ny-f1.htm NOTE Please consider AC adapter [AD-C100] (sold separately) if you are planning to observe for a long period of time. 2-3 Install remote shutter release to camera User s Guide P91 Open the terminal cover and connect the remote shutter release plug to the USB/AV port.
2-4 Turn on the power and start shooting 2-4-1 Single shot. * Zooming and white balance settings are the same for Movie shooting. 1 Select [Single shot] on CS (continuous shutter) dial. User s Guide P47 2 When image shows up on LCD, rotate zoom controller clockwise until there will be no vignette and stop. User s Guide P40 3 Adjust white balance manually when colors of images shows up on the LCD and looks different from the image you see through microscope. User s Guide P34 (1) In the [REC] mode, use and to select the forth control panel option from the top 4[WB (white balance)]. (2) Use and to select the Manual WB [MWB] (3) For vertical illumination microscope (industrial and stereo-microscope),under the lighting condition you plan to use when shooting, point the camera at a blank white piece of paper on the stage of microscope, so it fills the entire monitor screen * For biological microscope, remove specimen before adjusting WB (4) Press shutter button (5) Press [set]. * Readjust WB when voltage setting was changed. * White balance setting is kept even after power is turned off.
4 Shooting with remote shutter release User s Guide P91 Half press the shutter button. Camera will adjust exposure and focus automatically. Then press the shutter button the rest of the way down. 2-4-2 High-speed continuous shot. User s Guide P46 & 50 [Pre-record] In this mode, half pressing the shutter button starts continual prerecording of images to a temporary buffer. Then when you press the shutter button the rest of the way down, camera stores prerecorded images and performs continuous shutter recording of new images until you releases the shutter button. Able to capture 1-60 shots starts to finish. [High-Speed CS] This mode continues to shoot images as long as you keep the shutter button depressed 2-4-3 Saving continuous shutter images. User s Guide P58 Continuous shutter precautions With continuous shutter, exposure and focus for the first image are applied for successive images as well. If there is not enough available capacity on the memory card, you may not be able to recode number of CS images indicated on the monitor screen. Make sure your memory card has sufficient remaining capacity before shooting with using continuous shutter. Zoom is disabled during continuous shutter operation.
Ⅲ. Recording movies. User s Guide P62 CASIO digital camera has three movie modes, each of which is described below. Before recording, rotate the movie mode switch to select the mode that suite the type of subject you are trying to record. 3-1 STD (standard mode) Use this mode for standard movie recording. This is the mode you normally should use. In this mode, recording is performed with an aspect ratio of 4:3, an image size of 640x480 pixels, and a frame rate of 30 frames per second. Image quality and image size setting cannot be changed. 1 Set the movie mode switch to [STD] 2 Locking the auto exposure and auto focus setting User s Guide P45 Pressing [AE-L/AF-L] while the shutter button is half-pressed will lock the current exposure or focus setting. 3 In the REC mode, press [ ] (movie) This will start recording and display REC on the monitor screen. * Remote shutter release can not be used with movie recording. Press [ ] again to stop recording.
3-2 HD (high- definition) Use this mode to record high-definition movies. The aspect ratio of movies recorded with this mode is 16:9 Users Guide P87 3-3 HS (high- speed) Maximum 1200 fps high-speed movie can be acquired. However we recommend 300 fps for microscope documentation since 1200 fps has narrower aspect with dark field of view. Aspect ratio is dependent on frame rate. User s Guide P88 NOTE During high-speed movie recording, auto focus and exposure remain fixed at the levels they were when you initially started recording. Zoom, back lighting correction, monitor screen content switching, and AE Lock/AF Lock are all disabled. To focus the image, half-press the shutter button for auto focus before starting the high-speed movie recording operation.. Ⅳ. Viewing recorded images. 4-1 Viewing snapshots User s Guide P21 Press (PLAY) to enter the PLAY mode. 4-2 Viewing continuous shutter images User s Guide P97 4-3 Viewing movies User s Guide P96 NOTICE The instructions explained above are just one of the standard settings for microscopic documentation. Based of the above, we recommend you to look for your own exact setting for your object