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Device and Media Preparation
These preliminary tasks prepare your equipment,
save you time on the job, and help assure image
quality.
✔ Calibrate your monitor and printers
regularly, for example, weekly.
✔ Charge one or more DCS 645 batteries
(page 60). Attach a battery (page 57).
✔ Set the date & time (page 68), if needed.
✔ If you have used a CF Card for several
sessions (two or three dozen), you may
want to format it (page 66) on the camera
you will be using so that the full capacity of
the card is available and the DCS 645
Recover Card feature (page 67) will work.
✔ Insert each CF card (page 62) to be used
and check the Status screen (page 46) to
be sure there is adequate space available.
✔ Folders created on the DCS 645 are named
FOLDER1, FOLDER2, etc. To create
folders with meaningful names, insert a CF
Card in a card reader and name folders, for
example, “outdoors”, “church”. You can
then capture images to named folders for
easy access.
✔ Set up White Balance (page 88).
To set up White Balance on the camera,
use Click Balance (page 89). Select an
image with a MACBETH color chart, a gray
or white card, or a neutral area in the image
then perform Click Balance.
To set up White Balance in the included
software, capture an image of a MACBETH
color chart, a gray or white card, then adjust
later, using the software.
✔ Set ISO (page 87) based on available light.
✔ Set up Job Tracker, if needed (page 75).