Hitachi Kokusai Electric VF-L90HD User manual

MULTI STANDARD CAMERA SYSTEM
9 INCH LCD VIEW FINDER
VF-L90HD
OPERATION MANUAL
Hitachi Kokusai Electric

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SAFETY INSTRUCTION
ALERT SYMBOL
This is the “Safety Alert Symbol.” This symbol is used to call your attention to items or
operations that could be dangerous to you or other persons using this equipment. Read these messages and follow
these instructions carefully.
1. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTUIONS FOR THIS PRODUCT.
（1）When carrying this product around, plese do not give the high impact to the product. It may cause
spill liquid from the LCD or damage of the product, explosion, heat and fires.
（2）Avoid using this product where there are inflammable and explosive substance in the immediate
vicinity.
2. POWER SOUCE and SETTING
（1）A DC voltage ranging from 10.5V to 17V serves as this unit’s power supply.
（2）When removing the connector from this product, must hold the plug then pull out the connector.
（3）Do not turn the power back on immediately after having turned it off. Do so can casue malfunctioning.
Caution
CautionCaution
Caution
1. LCD PANEL
（1）This product may cause the pixel error( bright point, dark point and etc) from the LCD own
characteristic.
（2）Do not touch any liquid crystal which has leaked from the liguid crystal panel.
If the liquid crystal panel has been damaged inadvertently, and the liquid inside (liquid crystal)
has leaked out, keep the liquid away from your mouth and skin and do not inhale its vapors.
In the event that liquid crystal has made contact with your eyes or mouth, rinse it off with
water immediately. If it has come into contact with your skin or clothing, wipe it off immediately
with alcohol, and ten wash it off with soap. Leaving it in place may damage your skin or clothing.
（3）Exercise care with the glass of a broken liquid crystal panel.
If the LCD panel has broken, take care not to cut your hands on the glass shards. If you should
touch an area where the glass has broken off, you may injure yourself.
（4）The liquid crystal panel is a high- precision component and, as such, the following care must be
taken in its handling.
（4-1）Wiping the panel’s surface with benzene, paint thinners ,etc. will cause a deterioration in
its quality.
（4-2）If water(salty water) is left on the display surface, discoloration and staining will result.
（4-3）Exposing the panel directly to ultraviolet rays for an extended period may cause the deflection

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panel to turn brown, in turn causing the contrast to drop and other forms of deterioration to develop
in the display quality.
（4-4）Moisture inside the monitor due to condensation, etc. may cause unevenness in the colors.
（4-5）Directly tapping the surface or bumping it into objects may crack the panel,etc.
(4-6) Do not attempt to disassemble the panel since leaking liquid crystal may make contact with
your skin, which is hazardous.
（4-7）Please note the handling of the LCD protection panel.
2. As for the following items, it is neither a breakdown nor trouble.
（1）The liquid cristal generate the following states as of the LCD character.
The response time, brightness and the color of the liquid crystal might change depending on the
ambient temperature. The content of the display might see irregular brightness, a flicker, a
length stripe, and a slight macula.
The flicker might stand out compared with the time of 60Hz and 59.94Hz at the time of 50Hz,
48Hz, and 47.95Hz in the LCD frequency.
（2）An optical characteristic (brightness and irregular display, etc.) changes depending on the
operation time. Especially, it changes at the low temperature.
（3）The display color might change by the viewing angle.
（4）The noise might be caused on the start screen.
（5）The afterimage might be generated. Please avoid the display of a fixed pattern of a long time.
（6）The display image in the liquid crystal panel has one frame delayed from the input image.

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Specification
1.General
This product is the nine inches LCD viewfinder for the Hitachi Multi standard camera series.
2.Major specification
Correspondence HDTV camera formats :
1080i (59.94/50),720P(59.94/50)
LCD size: 9 inch 16:9 format
Effective display area: 194mm x 116mm
Maximum display pixel number: 1280(H) x 768(V)
Picture area pixel number: 1280(H) x 720(V)
Dot pitch : 0.1515(W)mm x 0.1515(H)mm
Viewing angle: Up & Down 176°, Left & Right 176°
Color displayed 16,770,000 color ( 8bit )
Color temperature: 6500 degree K corresponding
Video inputsignal: Analog Y/Pb/Pr
Y: 1.0Vp-p(W/SYNC)/75Ω
Pb, Pr: 0.35 Vp-p/ 75Ω
SYNC signal Separate from Y signal or External SYNC
INPUT power: DC 10.5V~17.0V
Power consumption: Approx. 16W
Dimension : 230(W)×175(H)×86(D) mm not include projection part
Weight: Approx. 1.6kg
Operational Temperature: 0~40 ℃
Operational humidity Less than 85%RH (No frost)
Display function: Front Tally display (LED)
Red Tally display
Green Tally display
Lens Extender ON display
Waveform monitor ON display
Adjustment function Contrast (White level)
Brightness (Black level)
Peaking
Chroma
The other function: Power ON/OFF, Front tally Switch (H/L/OFF 3 steps)
Marker 1 ON/OFF, Marker 2 ON/OFF
WF ON/OFF

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Name & Function
2.1 In front of the VF-L90HD
Fig. 2.1 Front view of the VF-L90HD
List 2.1 NAME of the front function
No NAME FUNCTION
① POWER SWITCH Power On and OFF.
POWER ON：Lights the Green LED／POWER OFF：Off the LED
② BRIGHT VR Control brightness of the LCD.
③ CONTRAST VR Control CONTRAST of signal.
④ PEAKING VR Control PEAKING of picture.
⑤ CHROMA VR Control CHROMA of picture
⑥ WF Switch Turn ON/OFF of the Wavewform.
⑦ MARKER Switch 1
⑧ MARKER Switch 2 Turn ON/OFF of the maker.
⑨ TALLY Switch
Set of the Tally LED brightness(LOW／OFF／HIGH).
Condition of the Switch and Tally display as follows. Left
：Tally ON（Brightness LOW）
Center : Tally OFF
Right : Tally ON（Brightness HIGH）
⑩ 9 inch LCD Displaying picture.
①
⑩
④
②
⑨
⑧
⑦
⑥
⑤
③

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2.2 Rear of the VF-L90HD
Fig. 2.2 Rear view of the VF-L90HD.
List 2.2 Name of the rear function
No NAME FUNCTION
① Input
Connector
（※1）
Signal of the connector.
Power (DC +12V） / GND
Analog Y signal, Pb, Pr
SYNC and DATA signal input from camera.
② REAR TALLY Lights R TALLY and color is red.
Can select brightness by front switch.
（※1） Pin assignment for this input shown as follows.
②
①
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1Y VIDEO
HR10A-13R-20PC
+12V
Pr VIDEO
Pb VIDEO
ＧＮＤ
DATA CLK
SHIELD
SHIELD
SHIELD
SHIELD
SYNC
CPU DATA(IN)
CPU DATA(OUT)
DATA STRB1
DATA STRB2
+12V
ＧＮＤ
N.C.
N.C.
N.C.

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Operation
3.1 How to connect.
The VF connecting connector （HR10A-13R-20PC）has to connect after confirmed the power switch
off the camera to number① of the rear VF-L90HD.
3.2 Operation method
Confirm the connection first then turn the VF power ON after the camera main switch turned
on. The POWER LED lights and display picture in the LCD
In case of the no POWER LED lights, check connection of the connector.
No input signal from the camera, black for video area on the LCD and display No Signal
with red character.
Input signal format will be detected and set automatically. This format selection can set
to fix mode. (selection method at DIP switch setting)
3.3 Operation
Describe the VF-L90HD operation.
3.3.1 POWER switch
・ Turn the power ON/OFF. Turn up to ON.
・ When turn power ON, Green LED lights in the switch and Green LED off with power
off.
3.3.2 WF Switch
・ When the switch is turned on, the input image signal waveform is displayed on the
monitor screen.
・ Dis appears display waveform with this switch OFF.
3.3.3 MARKER1、MARKER2 Switch
・ Marker which is generated by in the camera will display in the LCD monitor with
this Marker switch ON.
・ Dis appears display marker with this switch OFF.
3.3.4 TALLY Switch
・ Input R TALLY signal from the camera, display TALLY in the LCD and also lights Rear
TALLY LED. This TALLY LED brightness can be set to 3 steps of the OFF, ON（ Bright
LOW） and ON（Bright HIGH）.

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3.3.5 Each adjustment VR
・ Adjustment of the each BRIGHT、CONTRAST、PEAK、CHROMA functions are turned by the
each function VR.
（The PEAK adjustment can be selected from the CAMERA CONTROL or Local CONTROLL by
DIP switch in the VF board.）
3.4 Display the LCD
Display R TALLY、G TALLY ,EXT and WF in the LCD.
Size, positioning and color of the display are shown as follows.
VIDEO WF
EXTR-TALLY
R-TALLY
GTALLY GTALLY

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External view
CONTRAST21 MARKER TALLY BRIGHT POWERPEAK
OFF ON OFF ON L
OFF
H
230 35
190 10
86 8
10 36 30
196.8 (ACTIVE AREA)
ヒロセ電機
HR10A-13R-20PC(73)
58
50 130 50
4-M4 MAX 10mm

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