Hasselblad H3DII - Reading and Changing Approval Status

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Note that some shots may trigger the warning even though they are exposed accord-
ing to your intentions. You should consider these warnings only as a guideline. This
feature can be turned o.
3. If no problem is detected, then the image is saved with the chosen default approval
status.
 If you set Approval to ‘Auto’, all images will be stored as Green if judged as correct and
Yellow if judged as technically doubtful. No images are ever stored as Red automati-
cally!
4. When you are browsing through your shots, keep an eye on the approval status of
each and consider whether you should promote or demote each shot based on its
appearance on the preview screen. You can also apply a browse lter to, for exam-
ple, browse only red shots when looking for images to delete or to browse only green
shots to make sure you have a good version of each shot that you need.
5. When you begin working with the images on your computer, use the approval status
as a guide for organizing your work. For example, you might begin by opening and
optimizing the green shots and then go to the yellow shots only if you still need more
images and then, nally, check the red shots as a last resort.
Note that the system is very exible so you can use it in any way that you like. For exam-
ple, you can set the camera to assign all new images a yellow or green status regardless
of the exposure warning. Be careful when assigning red status because red images may
be deleted if the current storage medium becomes full.
Reading and changing the approval status
e current approval status of each shot is indicated in two ways:
 • Inmostpreviewmodes,thecurrentstatusisindicatedbyacoloureddotinthe
bottom-right corner of the screen.
 • Eachimageisgivenanamethatindicatesitsapprovalstatus.Approved(green)
imagenamesstartwith“A”(e.g.,“A0000043”);warning(yellow)imagesstartwith
“B”(e.g.,“B0000043”);andimagesmarkedfordelete(red)startwith“C”.Because
of this naming convention, you will also be able to sort your image les by status
after you have imported them onto your computer (e.g., by listing the folder by
le name).
See also the diagram showing where you can read the image name and approval status
on the screen.
By keeping an eye on the le name and/or coloured dot as you browse your images at
the single-image, four-thumbnail or nine-thumbnail level, you can easily see the current
approval status of each of them.
To change the approval status of the currently displayed/selected image, simply press the
approval button until the desired approval status is shown.
Note that you can set the camera to lter by approval status as you browse, which
means that some images may be hidden (though they are still there). See “Browsing
by Approval Status”, below, for details about how to work with the lter.
Be careful when assigning red status because red images may be deleted if the current
storage medium becomes full.