Re: Trying to find info on a no-name camera.

["rabbid" <r@xxxxx>]

zoom    com    focus
  +          -          +
or
  -            +          -





Matt Ion" <soundy106@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Alright, let me just get this out of the way right off the top: I don't
> want anyone trying to sell me anything, I don't need anyone telling me how
> shitty this camera is, or any recommendations on something different to
> sell the client on.  We've tried to tell him numerous times how...
> unworthy these things are, but he gets them cheap from China and insists
> on bringing them in and continually trying to sell them to us.  Everyone
> got that?
>
> Now here's the thing: he's brought in this little beastie that looks like
> any standard 1/3" camera, but with a built-in zoom lens (spec sheet says
> it's actually only a 1/4" Sony chip).  It does powered zoom (22X,
> 3.9-85.8mm) and autofocus.  I've got the power hooked up and the camera
> running - image quality is mediocre at best (for what purports to be a
> "Sony Super HAD CCD").  Autofocus operation is... well, practically
> useless, I have to fine-tune anything it does manage to lock in on.
>
> Zoom and focus can both be controlled through buttons on the back of the
> camera, or through wires in the combined remote/power connection (5-pin
> mini-din). The connector's pins are labeled +12VDC, GND, ZOOM, COM, and
> FOCUS.
>
> What I'm trying to determine is how to use/connect the external zoom/focus
> controls via this wire, and hoping someone might have run into one of
> these things and/or have some documentation for it that's NOT mostly in
> Chinese.  I've tried connecting both ZOOM and FOCUS wires to COM, as well
> as giving them +12 and GND, with no response at all.