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Description

The camera page is Generic Camera. For Windows this is the direct show device.
For MAC/iPAD the camera's standard MAC camera interface.
for LINUX not supported yet

To select a camera click on the first dropdown list at the top of the property page (to the right of the property page). This dropdown will automatically get and display a list of cameras connected to your machine. The user may also specify a default camera selection by selecting on of the options in the drop down title 'Default', which is located directly below the camera selection list.

Once the appropriate camera has been selected from the list, the user must finalize the choice by clicking on the 'Select' button located on the button toolbar (shown left). In addition to selecting to camera of choice; this toolbar provides three other buttons that will allows the use to change camera properties, camera source, and camera stream options. These options are available by clicking the '...' button, the 'Source' button, and the '..Pin..' button respectively.

The property pages available upon clicking a button in the toolbar vary with each camera. Some Camera's do not support different source boards and therefore will not allow you to edit or change the source option

Notes

The duplicate resolutions are shown because the camera is reporting different color space for each resolution. Where these use common popular color spaces then these names are displayed. If the camera has some proprietary color space it does not return a color space name. If the camera retuned the same resolution with the same color space then these names are indexed.

Camera Preferences

Default...

the following preferences adjust camera properties, and only apply as far as they are supported by the camera in question

Settings Direct Show

Device

the name of the device

Default

Camera Mode

Video Resolution

The Resolution in video mode

Photo/Trigger Resolution

The Resolution in Photo/Trigger mode

Gain

Specifies the gain adjustment. Zero is normal. Positive values are brighter and negative values are darker. The range of values depends on the device.

Brightness

Specifies the brightness, also called the black level. For NTSC, the value is expressed in IRE units * 100. For non-NTSC sources, the units are arbitrary, with zero representing blanking and 10,000 representing pure white. Values range from –10,000 to 10,000.

Contrast

Specifies the contrast, expressed as gain factor

Hue

Specifies the hue, in degrees * 100. Values range from -180,000 to 180,000 (-180 to +180 degrees).

Saturation

Specifies the saturation. Values range from 0 to 10,000.

Sharpness

Specifies the sharpness. Values range from 0 to 100.

Gamma

Specifies the gamma, as gamma. Values range from 1 to 5

ColorEnable

Specifies the color enable setting.

WhiteBalance

Specifies the white balance, as a color temperature in degrees Kelvin. The range of values depends on the device.

BacklightCompensation

Specifies the back light compensation setting.

Run Camera Continuously

Has the camera live in a background thread

Grab New

When the camera is run continuously, the grab can the the last image (faster) or the next new image

Pan

Specifies the camera's pan setting, in degrees. Values range from –180 to +180, with the default set to zero. Positive values are clockwise from the origin (the camera rotates clockwise when viewed from above), and negative values are counter clockwise from the origin.

Tilt

Specifies the camera's tilt setting, in degrees. Values range from –180 to +180, with the default set to zero. Positive values point the imaging plane up, and negative values point the imaging plane down.

Roll

Specifies the camera's roll setting, in degrees. Values range from –180 to +180, with the default set to zero. Positive values cause a clockwise rotation of the camera along the image-viewing axis, and negative values cause a counter clockwise rotation of the camera.

Zoom

Specifies the camera's zoom setting, in millimetres. Values range from 10 to 600, and the default is specific to the device.

Exposure

Specifies the exposure setting, in log base 2 seconds. In other words, for values less than zero, the exposure time is 1/2^n seconds, and for values zero or above, the exposure time is 2^n seconds. For example:
Value Seconds
-3 1/8
-2 1/4
-1 1/2
0 1
1 2
2 4

Exposure Auto

Turns auto exposure on or off

Iris

Specifies the camera's iris setting

Focus

Specifies the camera's focus setting, as the distance to the optimally focused target, in millimetres. The range and default value are specific to the device. __footer__