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Firmware 3.4.5.M for Proback 645 Mamiya
Firmware 3.4.5.M for Proback 645 Mamiya
This firmware adds the following features to the 3.4.4.M firmware: it fixes some of the rare occurrences of the broken capture that can manifest in Digital Combined shutter mode when CCD sensor has not been reset. The fix essentially does not remove CCD activation immediately after capture so CCD stays ( Read more... ) -
Firmware 3.4.4.M for ProBack 645 Mamiya
Firmware 3.4.4.M for Proback 645 Mamiya
This firmware adds the following features to the 3.4.3.M firmware: it fixes "Image Capture Error" that can appear with fast camera communicatons. This was easily caused in fast cameras like Phase One DF/DF+ and could appear occasionally in older Mamiya 645 AFD cameras. On Phase One DF/DF+ the problem could ( Read more... ) -
Firmwares 3.4.3 M and 3.4.0 C/H with support for user definable manual lens lists
I am releasing firmware 3.4.3.M for Proback 645 Mamiya and firmware 3.4.0.CH for Proback 645 Contax / Hasselblad with the ability to set metadata for manual lenses (with correct EXIF population) on all 3 Proback supported cameras. This functionality is new for Contax and Hassleblad Probacks and for Mamiya it was enhanced to support new setting ( Read more... ) -
Kodak DCS ProBack 645M - Phase One DF/DF+ and Manual Lenses Support
The largest change I have done so far - this firmware implements support for all Mamiya / Phase One cameras since Mamiya 645AFD II. This includes Mamiya 645AFD III, Phase One 645AF, Mamiya 645DF, Phase One 645DF, Mamiya 645DF+ and Phase One 645DF+. The parts of firmware for Mamiya communications were substantially rewritten.
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Kodak DCS ProBack and ProBack 645 custom Firmwares
I am mainly posting these on wowcamera forum (in russian) but since quite a few advances were made I will post it here as well. These are links and brief descriptions of the custom firmwares I built for Kodak DCS Pro Backs so far.
Please note that starting from version 3.3.9 my firmwares will separate into two branches: one for Contax and one for ( Read more... ) -
Custom firmwares for Kodak DCS Pro 14n(x), SLR/n and SLR/c cameras
Custom firmwares for Kodak DCS Pro 14n(x), SLR/n and SLR/c cameras
Here you will find a custom build firmwares for the above Kodak cameras with modifications to fix or remove ceratin limitations ( Read more... ) -
10 bit lossy compression in Kodak DCS Pro 14n(x), SLR/n and SLR/c cameras
10 bit lossy compression in Kodak DCS Pro 14n(x), SLR/n and SLR/c cameras
In the process of researching the Kodak SLR/n firmware innards I have discovered that .DCR files are in fact 10 bits raw files. The raw data in firmware is captured and processed at 12 bit but when writing the DCR file, it is lossy compressed to 10 bit with the following tonal ( Read more... ) -
DCS Remap help pages
This is a set of help pages from DCS Remap application (except from the firmware links). It is to give an overview of application and its features.
DCS Remap
This software allows to perform defective pixels, rows and columns remap for Kodak DCS cameras. Currently supported camera models are Kodak DCS Proback, Proback Plus and Probeck 645 M/C/H, ( Read more... ) -
Deciphering Kodak DCS firmware
Deciphering Kodak DCS firmware
The Kodak's 14n, SLR/n and SLR/c internally seem to have Motorola MPC823 rev. B CPU, Texas Instruments TMS320C6414 DSP and Xilinx FPGA. Proback 645 M/C/H has a lower level DSP (code compatible) but the same CPU. The excellent DCS Story document confirms some of these. In addition (and to confirm the chip models) I ( Read more... ) -
Main page and links
Contents
This journal contains the details of my explorations of Kodak's DCS cameras: their internals, firmware, sensors, remaps etc. I am mostly concentrating on Probacks (Probac, Proback Plus and 645M/C/H), 14n, SLR/n, SLR/c models but some of the things here may be applicable to other DCS cameras.
This page is secondary - the main research was ( Read more... )