Swann PRO-681 manual

1 Advanced Featur es: On-Scr een Display MOSD06052011 English PRO-660 PRO-670 PRO-680 PRO-661 PRO-671 PRO-681[...]

2 About the OSD So - you’ve got one (or more!) of Swann ’ s range of PRO cameras, and you want to use some of the advanced features. Good call! It may seem a little tricky at first, but it’ s pretty easy once you’re up and running. Y ou can adjust almost any aspect of how the camera captures images. If you’ve got experience in photograph[...]

3 The RS485 Controller Using the Quick Configuration The Quick Config button will give you instant access to the following settings: 1. DYNAMIC: Digital Wide Dynamic Range (DWDR) [page 10] 2. CONTRAST [page 14] 3. SHARPNESS [page 14] 4. BRIGHTNESS [page 9] 5. AUTO BW A T NIGHT : When disabled, the camera will attempt to create color images at nig[...]

4 Connection Guide 1 2 3 1. Connect the DC in plug on the camera cable to the DC out pin on the end of the extension cable. 2. Connect the BNC connector on the camera cable to the BNC connector on the extension cable. 3. Plug the green RS485 plug on the end of the camera cable to the RS485 port on the extension cable. Y ou may need to connect the t[...]

5 4 5 6 7 8 Attaching the RS485 Plug 1. Using a small, flat blade screwdriver , loosen the two screws. 2. Observing the adjacent diagram, insert the PURPLE/RED wire into the LEFT/ UPPER port, and tighten the screw so that it is held secur ely . 3. Repeat with the GREY/BLACK wire into the RIGHT/LOWER port.[...]

6 Exposure Special Setup White Balance Backlight Reset Factory Default BLC HLC WB Manual Cam T itle Motion Privacy Image Adj Font Color Display Shutter Brightness AGC DWDR Menu Structure[...]

7 Setup (Main) Menu Exposure: Contr ols how sensitive the camera will be to light. Press SELECT to enter the Exposure sub-menu (page 9) to access the detailed exposur e controls. Note: As the cameras have fixed iris lenses, control over exposur e is determined by the electronic shutter (that is, how long each frame is “exposed” for). Unlike ma[...]

8 AWC --> SET : Allows you to create a custom white balance. Y ou’ll need a sheet of thick white card/paper . Hold the paper in front of the camera so that it covers just over half the viewing area. If you ar e using a camera with a vari-focal lens (such as the PRO-680/681) adjust the focus so that the piece of paper’ s edge is sharp and cle[...]

9 From the EXPOSURE menu, you can contr ol how the camera reacts to lighting conditions. SHUTTER: This setting controls the behaviour of the electr onic shutter . In a nutshell, it controls how long the camera will expose each frame. The longer that the electronic shutter is “open”, the mor e light it will let in. We r ecommend leaving this on [...]

10 DWDR (Digital Wide Dynamic Range) Menu Y ou can change and set the way that the camera captures and r epresents differ ent lighting conditions. LEVEL: The higher you set the LEVEL, the more dynamic your images can be. It works by changing how the camera interprets data fr om the CCD (the actual image sensor). If this setting is low , then bright[...]

11 ‘Special’ Menu CAM TITLE: Y ou can give your camera a name, if you’d like to. There’ s no requir ement to do so, but it can make identifying which video feed you’re viewing on a multiple camera setup easy to determine at a glance. It’ s also kind of nice to feel like the camera is your friend. MOTION: The camera is able to detect mot[...]

12 AREA SELECT : Choose which areas of the camera’ s view that you’d like to configure. Y ou can have up to four areas defined and active simultaneously , which can overlap or be quite discrete. AREA ST A TE: Whether the area has motion detection enabled or not. A disabled area r etains its border definitions, size and placement, but will si[...]

13 IMAGE ADJ.: The Image Adjustment menu allows you to control many aspects of the camera’ s pictures. LENS SHAD.: If your lens is exposed to direct light, the LENS SHADE option can improve the quality of your images. When this is ON, the camera will automatically adjust the content of your images to remove as much as possible of the dir ect ligh[...]

14 Image Adjustment Menu: Continued FONT COLOR: What colors the on-screen text will be. There ar e fifteen options, the default (white) is #3. The text will always have a black border . CONTRAST : Controls the dynamic range of the camera’ s output. The higher the contrast, the greater the dif ference between the blackest black and the whitest wh[...]

15 PED LEVEL: Altering the PED level will slightly alter the output voltage of the composite video out, altering the way that a CRT monitor will build images by combining the red, gr een and blue pixels on screen. Higher values will give brighter images, particularly in darker areas of gr eyscale. This is an expert feature – we’d recommend not [...]

16 GAMMA: Allows you to fine tune the gamma repr oduction curve of your monitor . This is an expert feature, and intended for advanced users only . If you want to make adjustments to your images, we suggest using the Image Adjustment menu and the options located therein: the vast majority of outcomes achievable by using the GAMMA adjustment settin[...]

17 Backlight Compensation Menu (BLC) AREA SELECT : Choose which areas of the camera’ s view that you’d like to configure. Y ou can have up to four areas defined and active simultaneously , which can overlap or be quite discrete. AREA ST A TE: Whether the area has backlight compensation enabled or not. A disabled area r etains its border defi[...]

18 Highlight Compensation Menu (HLC) LEVEL: Sets when highlights will be masked. The lower the value, the lower the requir ed luminance value will be for the camera to mask it, and thus the more areas of the scr een will be masked. MODE: Y ou can choose when HLC will be active. ALL DA Y will leave HLC on at all times, whereas selecting NIGHT ONL Y [...]

19 Manual White Balance Menu COLOR TEMP: Color temperature (technically measur ed in degrees kelvin) is a measurement of the average wavelength of light being photographed. Artificial lights (particularly older style tugnsten bulbs) have a low color temperature, somewhere between 3000°K and 3500°K, and this appears to be an orange/yellow color .[...]

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