Phocus 2.5.

5 for Windows

Hasselblad A/S – January 6, 2011

This is a bug fix release of Phocus.

Installation

Run PhocusInstaller.exe to install Phocus. This installer will automatically detect the
operating system, and install the required components. If the automatic installation
procedure described above fails, use the manual installation procedure described in the
setup.txt document.

It is recommended to keep the windows installation up-to-date with the latest window
updates and service packs (SP). Phocus requires a particular update for Windows XP SP2.
Its name is "XMLLite for Windows XP (KB915865)" for Windows XP SP2 32 bit, or
"XMLLite for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB915865)" for Windows XP SP2 64 bit. XMLLite is
included is Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista. The installation kit includes XMLLite for
XP in English. If you are using a different language, please use windows update, or read
the setup.txt.

Compatibility

Phocus is supported on Windows XP (SP2 or later), Vista (SP1 or later) and Windows 7 in
64 or 32bit mode. Phocus is optimized for best performance in 64bit mode.

To ensure a good user experience, itʼs recommended that your system at least conform to
the requirements described in this document. Phocus may run on older and/or other
operating systems and hardware. Hasselblad will however not guarantee correct operation
or performance with these configurations, and consequently cannot offer technical support
for these environments. This as well applies to operating Phocus on emulated operating
systems like Parallels or VMWare. Phocus for Windows will run via Boot Camp (Mac).

Supported products: All FireWire based Hasselblad camera units are supported. Capture or
display of micro-step images is not supported. Scanner 3F files are not supported. 3F files
generated by Phocus are not backward compatible with FlexColor!

System Requirements

Below you will find three different performance configuration examples. Please be aware
that these examples are general and may vary depending on the manufacturer of the
actual hardware and the operating system they run on. They may be used only as a basic
guideline for configuring a computer to a given performance. To ensure a good user
experience in Phocus, we recommend that your system at least conform to the “Acceptable
Performance” example described below.

Recommended PC Configurations
Acceptable performance (Using 22” monitor or less)
Core 2 Duo (or AMD equivalent), 2GB memory, 512MB video RAM.

Good performance
Core 2 Quad (or AMD equivalent), 4GB memory, 512MB video RAM.

High Performance
Core i7 (or AMD equivalent), 8GB memory, 1GB video RAM.

If you are working with the H4D60 we recommend 8GB of RAM on a 64 bit Windows.
NonRecommended PC Configurations
Phocus will run using older and/or other configurations than the listed examples above.
Hasselblad will however not guarantee correct operation or performance with these
configurations. Older Pentium machines and/or main boards with onboard graphics
adapters are generally not recommended, as they provide less performance for Phocus to
perform well.

Graphics card
At least 512MB of video RAM is required. Unlike older graphics applications such as
Photoshop and FlexColor, Phocus utilizes the processing power available in the graphics
card to provide precise real time feedback for adjustment changes. Therefore, just as with
Aperture, the viewer performance is very much dependent on the quality of the graphics
adapter. In general, more video RAM is better, especially if you plan to work with 30”
displays or dual monitor setups. Not all graphic adapters are supported! As a minimum
Direct X 9.0c compatible graphic adapters are required, yet not all are guaranteed to work.
Generally speaking we recommend using either Nvidia or ATI chipset adapters, where Intel,
Matrox and others are usually not performing sufficient with Phocus.

CPU
While viewer performance is very dependent on GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) power,
the CPU (Central Processing Unit) will have the most influence on functions such as export
where speed benefits from higher CPU clock rate (GHz) and maximum core utilization. It
should also be mentioned that performance of the viewer at 100% and above is also CPU
core and clock rate dependent. The above performance examples are not specific in
regards to CPU speed (GHz). In general,the higher the speed of the CPU and the higher
amount of cores you have, the higher performance you will achieve.

Memory (RAM)
2GB is acceptable but 4GB (or more) is a better choice especially if you are running
Photoshop at the same time. Phocus for Windows will when running on a 64bit operating
system, take full advantage of more than 2GB which may improve performance when
browsing folders with a large number of images.

Functionality Level

Phocus 2.5 for Windows is almost at the same functionality level as Phocus 2.5 for the Mac
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platform. The Windows version does not support 3 party file formats and 3F and 3FR files
as an overlay image.

New features (Phocus version 2.5 or later)

Multiple color readouts A new picker tool has been added that let's you position color
readout points in the image. You can use either the new button next to the hand tool
button or the 'i' short cut to activate the tool hereafter clicking in the image will place a new
readout point or move an existing point around. The active point can be deleted by
pressing delete. Note that in order to move or delete points the tool must be active. The
channels displayed will correspond to the currently selected readout options controlled by
the popup found on the far right of the Viewer Toolbar.

Print of full image In the print dialog you can now select between 2 modes either Contact
Sheet (which was the only option until now) or Full Image. When full image is selected a full
quality print will be done. In this mode there's a couple of new options available. Expand to
fit will expand the image so that the full printable area of a page is covered this is typically
useful when using a printer that supports borderless printing. Auto rotate will rotate images
in order to fit the current page layout. Furthermore page attributes are now located in the
main print dialog.

Improved low-res preview sharpness Using the lens distortion filter will now have minimal
effect on preview sharpness. Also in Preferences you will find a new Extra Large option for
the embedded preview size. Using a larger preview size will result in better quality viewer
previews when zoomed under 13%, but do note that it will also add to the file size and can
affect performance. Therefore selecting Extra Large is only recommended if you're running
on fairly modern hardware.

Slideshow This command has been added to the Image menu it will display a slide show of
the currently selected (non 3FR) files. It is also available from the toolbar in existing
installations you will need to either load one of the Standard Mode or Light Mode layouts or
customize your toolbar to add the slideshow button.

Keywords This tool has now been made resizable and it will use a tabbed mode whenever
necessary. Also you can now export and import keywords.

Folder rename You can now rename folders via the File Browser view – use the popup
menu and select rename.

Capture info in viewer top bar ISO, aperture, shutter and lens info for the currently
displayed image will now be shown in the viewer bar.

Thumbnail option changes The upper right corner thumbnail options view has been
abandoned. Instead you now have a popup menu located at the right side of the
thumbnail bar. From this you can control all the same options that were available from the
old options window and also some new functionality has been added. You can now filter
by file type so that you can select whether to display 3F, 3F multi-shot or 3FR files. Also you
can select whether to add a sort control and an approval filter control to the toolbar itself in
order to give quick access to this functionality.

Known Issues

Due to memory issues on 32bit Windows systems, Phocus may seem unstable.

Low resolution view of existing images with negative EV If you have non base ISO 3F files
produced with previous versions of Phocus prior to 2.0 or FlexColor and use a larger
amount of negative EV correction on these (typically more than 1 f stop) you may see
highlights going magenta in the low-res viewer preview and in thumbnails. Once you zoom
in to 25% or more the problem goes away. NB! This issue does not affect exports of
images. You can in fact get rid of the problem by adding any amount of highlight recovery
and saving adjustments for the image. This will trigger a recalculation of the embedded
uncorrected preview and once this is done highlights will be treated correctly with negative
EV also when not using highlight recovery.

Change Log

V. 2.5.5

Fixes an issue relating to long exposure times that could lead to image artifacts in fine
details.
The slideshow did not work on Windows XP.
Contact Metadata was not tagged to captured images.
The IPTC tool and the IPTC keywords tool was not updated after a capture.
Capture Info was not updated in the tool and the viewer after a capture.
Lightmeter menu did not show correct information.
V. 2.5.4
Adds support for the new HC50-II and HC120-II lenses.
Fixes a crash on startup

V. 2.5.3
Provided the connected camera is running firmware that supports it tethered captures
triggered from the PC will now behave exactly as when you trigger captures from the
camera. This means faster response time and being able to burst capture from the host.
This is supported by firmware R354 for the H4D60.
Fixes stability issues related to tethered capture, amongst these situations where the host
would stop handling captures in the burst queue.
Fixes an issue where the camera would no longer consider itself tethered after the host has
been in sleep mode.
Fixes a camera disconnect/reconnect issue.
Enables update of H4D60 firmware from Phocus Fixes a crash situation during export

V. 2.5.2 Further fixes of the multi-shot artifact issue. Fixes a potential hang situation during
tethered burst capture. H4D60 image handling improvements.

V. 2.5.1 Adds support for the H4D60. This includes a new preference setting that allows
you to decide whether H4D60 images captured with an HCD lens should be auto cropped
to the "safe area". This will be done by default. Fixes a potential crash during multi-shot
capture. Also fixes a multi-shot issue that could lead to image artifacts. Fixes incorrect
"Capture failed" error when disconnecting camera after making burst captures.