CAMERA Connector
The camera connector can be used to trigger a DSLR camera for go-motion shooting.
This is a 3-pin male XLR receptacle.
Wiring
1. Common
2. Shutter
3. Meter
To create your own connector cable, typically you would buy a wired remote shutter
release for your camera and dismantle it. Most shutter releases have three wires: a
common wire, a metering wire (connected to common when the button is pressed
halfway) and a shutter release (connected to common when the button is pressed fully).
USB vs Hardware Shutter Release
Dragonframe can achieve fairly accurate shutter release timing over USB. However,
USB can be prone to random timing delays, especially if your cable run is long.
If you need perfectly repeatable go-motion shots you will probably need to use the
hardware shutter release through the camera connector.
Configuring Dragonframe to Use a Hardware Shutter Release
Normally Dragonframe controls the camera shutter release over USB. To allow the
DMC+ to control the shutter electrically, you need to configure Dragonframe:
1. Open
Preferences : Capture
and check the
Allow external shutter control
checkbox. This will make a new camera setting called
SHUTTER
.
2. In the
Camera Settings
area of the
Cinematography
workspace, set the
SHUTTER
to
EXTERNAL
or
EXTERNAL BULB
.
Dragonframe DMC+ User Guide
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