Notes

Set the switches before you turn on the power of the camera.

You cannot use a camera with its camera address set to “0” together with cameras with their camera address set to “1” to “7.”

Remote Commander (supplied)

 

 

 

POWER

 

 

 

 

 

6

1

CAMERA SELECT

 

1

2

3

 

 

FOCUS

 

 

2

AUTO

 

MANUAL

 

FAR

NEAR

 

3

DATA SCREEN

 

BACK LIGHT

7

 

 

 

 

 

STD

REV

 

 

 

1

2

3

 

 

4

5

6

8

 

PRESET

 

RESET

 

 

POSITION

 

 

 

PAN-TILT

 

 

4

HOME

 

 

 

 

 

PAN-TILT

 

 

 

 

RESET

9

 

SLOW ZOOM FAST

 

 

 

T

 

T

q;

 

W

W

 

 

 

L/R

5

DIRECTION SET

RM-EV100

ACAMERA SELECT buttons

Press the button corresponding to the camera you want to operate with the Remote Commander. The camera number can be set using the IR SELECT switch on the rear of the camera.

Note

If two or more cameras are adjacent and have the same camera number, they are operated simultaneously with the same Remote Commander. When you install the cameras close to each other, set different camera numbers.

For the camera number setting, see “Operating Multiple Cameras with the Remote Commander” on page 33.

BFOCUS buttons

Used for focus adjustment.

Press the AUTO button to adjust the focus automatically. To adjust the focus manually, press

the MANUAL button, and adjust it with the FAR and NEAR buttons.

CDATA SCREEN button

Press this button to display the main menu. Press it again to turn off the menu. If you press the button when a lower-level menu is selected, the display returns to the next menu one level higher.

Note

Pan/tilt and zoom operations are disabled when the menu is displayed.

DPAN-TILT buttons

Press the arrow buttons to perform panning and tilting. Press the HOME button to face the camera back to the front.

When the menu is displayed, use V or v to select the menu items and B or b to change the set values.

EL/R DIRECTION SET button

Hold down this button and press the REV button to change the direction of the camera movement opposite to that indicated by the arrow of the B/b buttons.

To reset the direction of the camera movement, press the STD button while holding down this button.

FPOWER switch

Press this button to turn on/off the camera when the camera is connected to an AC outlet.

GBACK LIGHT button

Press this button to enable the backlight compensation. Press it again to disable the backlight compensation.

HPOSITION buttons

Hold down the PRESET button and press button 1 to 6 to store the current camera direction, zooming, focus adjustment and backlight compensation in the memory of the pressed number button.

To erase the memory contents, hold down the RESET button and press button 1 to 6.

IPAN-TILT RESET button

Press this button to reset the pan/tilt position.

JZOOM buttons

Use the SLOW button to zoom slowly, and the FAST button to zoom quickly.

Press the T (telephoto) side of the button to zoom in, and the W (wide angle) side to zoom out.

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Sony BRC-Z330 operating instructions Remote Commander supplied

BRC-Z330 specifications

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