Summary
What do the Red and Green LED lights on the Digital Back signify? The meaning of the different LED lights on Phase One backs.
In-Depth
Indicator lights
When the camera is powered up you will see a short blink in the Green and Red LED's on the back of the Digital Back. The lights will turn off immediately. This is an indication that the camera is ready to capture.
In general, if no light is on the camera is ready.
Green light
When capturing an image the green light is blinking rapidly this indicates that the back is capturing.
Steady green light comes on if the backlight of the display is dimmed to indicate that camera is still ready even though the screen is dimmed.
Red light
If the red light is on this means that the back is writing to the storage media. The same indicator is located just beside the CF-card-slot.
Red and Green light
This comes on when the back is booting up. If they stay on, then the back has lost its firmware or firmware has become corrupt. Download and run the firmware updater from www.phaseone.com to recover the back,
IMPORTANT
When the red light is on do not remove the card from the CF-card-slot, as this can damage the formatting of the card or image and data might be lost.