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MECHA C2 User’s Guide
v.02.5
© 2021 FANOTEC
Disabling the motors is useful to prevent MECHA from turning on by
accident in some cases, for kids protection, or to simulate the
functioning of MECHA for learning purposes, and when you want to be
able to rotate the rotators by hand. There are other applications not
listed here.
31<
Code for automatic shooting pattern computed by MECHA, without
using the UI. After entering the
31<
code, MECHA waits for two quick
presses of the
P
button, first is in order to trigger the camera, and the
second is after the camera was triggered.
Please see
Panorama with Automatic Shooting Pattern...
for details.
After that, MECHA will rotate slowly to the right and wait for another
press of the
P
button, right after the sheet of paper is out of the
camera's frame.
Then MECHA will go back in the initial position and wait for one of the
-
,
+
, or
=
buttons to be pressed, to assign the computed preset to
that particular button.
To cancel the assignment, the
P
button can be pressed instead.
For single axis applications, after the first row, MECHA will enter the
pause mode and the vertical axis should be tilted manually to continue
to a full spherical panorama. If only a cylindrical is needed, or no manual
tilt is possible, press the
P
button.
32<
Similar with
31<
code, but fish-eye lenses can be used as well.
Also,
32<
uses for refference a small feature centered in the frame, say,
below the central focus point.
Before disabling the upper motor (MOTOR 2), we recommend
that you position MECHA in the
parked
position, using the
\
button, for example, to avoid a sudden change of position in the
case of heavy cameras. Please see the
and
Parked, Level and Raised Positions
at the beginning of the guide.
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