OCEAN PRESENCE OPT-06SD/HD User Manual - page 12
OceanCam User’s Manual
Version: 2.0 7/16/13
Ocean Presence Technologies
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dropping frames causing a rougher motion.
Under similar conditions, H.264 maintains
smooth motion but the video may become
corrupted reducing image quality and
introducing artifacts. This also may occur
when bandwidth is restricted as in the case
of low bandwidth connections.
Motion-JPEG generally requires between
4-16 times more hard disk storage than
H.264 video in order to produce similar
visual quality. H.264 requires more
processing power than Motion-JPEG. As
disk space is getting cheaper and easier to
distribute and processors are getting
faster, the importance of this consideration
is decreasing as time passes.
4.3.2 Upright Mounting
The “Eflip” mode should be set in the
Installation Tab to ON if the camera is
mounted in an upright position or to OFF if
mounted upside down. This position can
be set under the “System/Installation” tab.
4.3.3 Home Position
The camera’s initial position is known as its
“home” position. It is the position that the
camera returns to when the “circle” is
selected in the camera control menu. This
position can be set under the “Preset
Position” tab.
4.3.4 White Balance
To set the Underwater White Balance
select the “Picture” tab. This allows the
camera’s color balance to be adjusted for
underwater operation.
Select the white balance mode:
Auto: Automatically adjusts the color to be
closest to the image you are viewing
(approximately 3000 K to 7500 K).
Outdoor: Adjusts the white balance for
shooting outdoors (about 5800 K).
One push WB: The One push trigger button
becomes active. Click the button to adjust
the white balance instantly.
Manual: When this option is selected, R
gain and B gain become active. Selectable
gain values are from 0 to 255.
Water absorbs the color spectrum removing
the “reds” first. The camera’s white balance
can be used to correct for this color
imbalance. Generally blue is manually
reduced and red is increased to
approximate actual underwater colors.
Focusing the camera on a “white card” at
the working depth produces the best color
results. “One-push” balance can be used to
set the camera to the best color for the
depth and lighting conditions.
4.4 SNC D
ESKTOP
V
IEWER
There are two types of viewers that are
available: 1) ActiveX based for Windows
platforms and 2) Plug-in free viewer for all
others. Thus nearly all platforms have the
ability to control and view the camera and
to save single JPEG images. Video can
only be recorded using the ActiveX viewer.
The ActiveX button displays the ActiveX
viewer. Plug-in free is used for non-
windows platforms. Tool is used to
download system utilities. This operation is