Serial In Mode menu appears | Kodak DCS500 manual

Serial In Mode

Using Serial In mode, your camera accepts text strings from a connected external device. The information is then added to specified image headers.

☛Serial In and Serial Out modes can work at the same time.

1Select Serial In from the Serial Port menu (page 13-2).

2Select your choice (described in the table below).

The setting is retained until you change it, disconnect the device, or use the Transmit option.

Modem is selected automatically with this option.

Menu	Action	Comments
Choice	Action	Comments
Choice


None	No data transmitted	Serial port is unavailable.

New Images	The text string from the	Text string must be 250 valid
	connected device is written to	characters, or less. Valid characters
	the header of subsequent	consist of ASCII characters, carriage
	images.	return, and line termination.

Previous	A text string from the connected	When you select New Images or
Image	device is written to the header of	Previous Image, a Serial In Status
	previously captured image.	option (page 13-4) becomes available.

GPS	A text string from the connected	If a Trimble GPS card is inserted in
	GPS device is written to the	the camera, the serial port GPS
	header of the just-captured	functionality is over-ridden by the
	image.	Trimble card.

Remote	An image is captured when you	Use the remote release to minimize
Release	activate the connected remote	camera movement or when you are
	cable release.	away from the camera.

Modem	Reserved for Transmit option	Set automatically when you use the
	(page 13-6)	Transmit option.

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