Specifications

Universal RCP – Operation Manual

V3.1

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22/12/11

This selects an infra-red mode for a camera if available. It may also lead to an ‘auto’ mode where the

threshold at which the infra-red mode switches on and off automatically can be adjusted.

AWC Mode

This selects the colour balancing mode of the camera. Typical settings would be ‘Manual’ for allowing use

of the colour control knobs to manually set the colour. 5600k, or 3200k will set preset colour values for

lighting of those colour temperatures. ATW or Auto will allow automatic colour control by the camera itself

based on the average picture content. Preset will allow use of the ‘White Bal’ function button to set the

camera colour temperature while looking at a white chart. See individual camera descriptions for checking

the functions available.

Gamma

Changes the picture gamma settings. This adjusts the relative brightness of the dark areas of a picture

compared to the overall picture level. Increased gamma values may show more noise in the dark areas of

the picture.

Knee

This reduces the gain of the picture at high brightness levels. Mostly used to show more detail in very

bright areas such as when shooting indoors but also showing a very bright window in the picture. There is

usually an ‘Auto’ setting offered by the camera.

Peak/Average

This setting will usually only have an effect when in an ‘Auto’ iris mode. Here the camera will be using the

image itself to adjust the exposure to give the best picture. It can either use the ‘Peak’ value of a small

part of the picture to set the exposure, or the ‘Average’ value of the picture brightness, or various settings

in between those extremes. Note that with most cameras the main iris knob will still have an effect on the

‘Auto’ exposure to trim the final exposure to your preference.

Iris Area

This setting works in a similar way to the previous Peak/Average adjustment. However, this will select a

particular part of the picture to be used for setting the ‘Auto’ exposure level. Usually the ‘centre’ are is

used but for particular images it be better to ignore the top of the picture if it contains a very bright sky for

instance.

Iris Speed

Again, this is used only for ‘Auto’ modes of exposure. This controls the speed at which the iris (or auto

shutter maybe) responds to changes in picture brightness. When the auto exposure is done by actually

moving the physical iris on a lens, then it can be very useful in preventing ‘hunting’ of the iris at high f

stops.

ENG Menus

The ENG (engineering) menus are accessed from the Home menu by pressing the second function button

from the left.

These menus are less frequently used actions which will probably only require setting once for a particular

camera type.

The complete list of possible menus is shown here, but again only those provided by a particular

make/model of camera will be displayed in normal use.

H Detail

This will set the amount of horizontal detail correction applied to the picture. In conjunction with the overall

detail setting in the main menus it can help to improve the apparent sharpness of the final image.