Camera

1. Q: The image quality of SONY EO camera is partial white and light in color

Answer: Send following serial commands to change:

Defog high:  81 01 04 37 02 03 FF  

Colour light:  81 01 04 49 00 00 00 0E FF

Colour deep:  81 01 04 4F 00 00 00 0E FF

Save settings:  81 01 04 3F 01 7F FF 

2. Q: How to query camera status?

Answer: F series:

Photograph /record action command: 81 01 04 68 xx FF

xx =:

01 Take a photo

02 Start record

03 Stop record

04 Reverse recording status

05 Switch to record mode or picture mode

Query video/photo status: 81 09 04 68 FF

Camera feedback:

81 09 04 68 00 FF  Stop recording

81 09 04 68 01 FF  Recording

81 09 04 68 10 FF  Photo mode 

T series:

Query SD card status command:

7E 7E 44 00 00 8B 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 CD

Feedback:

BB 09 01 01 02 00 00 C8  Recording

BB 09 01 01 00 00 00 C6  Stop record 

3. External conversion for camera output

Answer: 1. Verify SDI to HDMI box (T series)

       2. Verify AV to HDMI box (QIR19, F series)

       3. Verify HDMI to AV module (Z-6KA7, Z-A7) 

4. SONY camera digital zoom

Answer:  81 01 04 06 02 FF  Turn on digital zoom

81 01 04 06 03 FF   Turn off digital zoom

81 01 04 36 00 FF   Combination mode

81 01 04 36 01 FF   Split mode

81 01 04 06 00 FF   Stop

81 01 04 06 27 FF   Tele

81 01 04 06 37 FF   Wide

81 01 04 46 00 00 0p 0q FF  Zoom in split mode

81 01 04 47 0p 0q 0r 0s FF   Zoom in combination mode 

Register/Temporary storage settings:

81 01 04 24 mm 0p 0q ff  setting

81 09 04 24 mm ff       query

90 50 0p 0p ff pp        pp is register setting value

D-Zoom: 52            pq is the value in the table

5. Q: SONY camera automatic exposure and manual exposure

Answer:

81 01 04 3E 02 FF  Exposure compensation mode ON 

81 01 04 3E 03 FF  Exposure compensation mode OFF

81 01 04 0E 00 FF  Exposure compensation value reset

81 01 04 0E 02 FF  Exposure compensation value increase

81 01 04 0E 03 FF  Exposure compensation value decrease

81 01 04 4E 00 00 0p 0q FF Directly control exposure compensation position

pq: exposure compensation position

6. Q: How to set and get the camera ID of the Viewpro gimbal camera?

Answer: The camera ID can be set up to 65,536 (0000h to FFFFh). Since this will be stored in the internal non-volatile memory, the data will be saved.

Set camera ID command package

Note: CAM_IDWrite — 81 01 04 22 0p 0q 0r 0s FF  pqrs: Camera ID (= 0000h to FFFFh)

Get the camera ID command packet feedback

Note: CAM_IDInq — 81 09 04 22 FF  90 50 0p 0q 0r 0s FF  pqrs: camera ID 

7. Q: Defog settings for cameras?

Case 1: SONY camera modules

Answer: CAM_Defog:   On 81 01 04 37 02 0p FF    p: Defog level (1: low, 2: mid, 3: high)

                   Off 81 01 04 37 03 00 FF

CAM_DefogInq： 81 09 04 37 FF

feedback：90 50 02 0p FF    p: Defog level (1: low, 2: mid, 3: high)

feedback：90 50 03 00 FF    Defog Off 

Case 2: Z10N /Q10T /Z10TIR / Z10TL /Q10TIRM

Send: CAM_DefogInq 81 09 04 65 FF

Feedback:  90 50 02 FF  On

          90 50 03 FF  Off

Send: CAM_Defog Level Inq  81 09 04 65 10 FF

Feedback: 90 50 0p FF          p: Defog Level (0 ~ 2) 

8. Q: Z10N /Q10T /Z10TIR / Z10TL /Q10TIRM Digital Stabilizer

Answer:

Turn off the digital image stabilizer: 81 01 04 34 03 FF

Turn on the digital image stabilizer: 81 01 04 34 02 FF

Enquiry: 81 09 04 34 FF

Feedback:  90 05 03 FF  Off   

90 05 02 FF  On 

9. Q: Cannot control the camera?

Case 1: The F series camera cannot be controlled

Answer: Measure the serial port TX of the CONN board and the RX of the camera to see if the two points can be connected.

If it can be connected, make a special wire to test whether the camera serial port is valid or not. 

If it can not be connected, check where the wire is poorly connected or broken.

10. Q: Camera can not focus

Case 1: SONY camera could not focus at low times

Answer: Send the camera reset command: “81 01 04 3F 00 7F FF” 

11. Q: Camera HDMI output delay

Case 1: T series HDMI output

Answer:

Case 2: Q10F AV output delay

Answer: AV output regular delay is between 150~180ms. 

12. Q: No video stream output via video transmitter?

Case1: QIR19 has no video stream output via GCS of Skydroid H16/Herelink/…

Answer: The video transmitter do not support HDMI 576i format. 

13. Q: Camera specified zoom 0xpqrs value

Case1: Q10F / Z10F

Answer:

Case2: Q18F / Z18F

Answer:

Situation 3：Q30F / Z30F

Answer：

Case 4: Z10TIR, Z10TL, Z10N, Q10T, Q10N and so on

Answer:

Case5: MiniZ10TIR/ Z10TIRM/ Q10TIR-35/ Z10TIR-35 and so on

Answer ：

Case 6: Z40K/ Z40KT/ Z40TIR/ Q40TIR Panasonic 4K camera module

Case 6: Q30T pro/ Q30TIR/ Q30TIRM pro etc SONY 30x camera module

Answer: please refer to the appendix.