Camera Controller Features

• Single shot capture
  • Set your exposure settings and take pictures on demand.  Each picture is downloaded to your PC automatically.
• Pan & Zoom
  • Examine your photos in excruciating detail on the fly.  Zoom a photo up to 2000% and pan around the photo using the arrow keys.  Excellent for extremely tight focus
• LCD Video
  • See the output from the camera LCD via USB - no video capture device required - at frame rates up to 3 fps 
• Time-lapse Mode
  • Intervals from 1 second to 24 hours or more
  • Durations are only limited by the amount of disk space available on your PC
  • Use the SlideShow tool to play them back at frame rates up to 32 frames per second - that's faster than live video!
• WebCam Mode
• Automatic FTP upload to your website after every timelapse capture
• Local webcam mode
• Use the WebCam tool SnapIn to automatically timestamp and compress the images to make them more suitable for the web.
• Save a local copy on your PC and see what your webcam viewers saw.
• Slideshow Tool
• Replay your timelapse sequences as fast as your PC will process them.  Tested as fast as 32 fps - faster than live video.
• Browse forward and backward through your snapshots, show animations, open your photos in an editor, and more, all with simple keyboard shortcuts.
• Drag-and-drop your pictures to window explorer or other drop targets.
• Create animations from a series of snapshots and replay them.
• Open your pictures in the editor of your choice.
• Copy your slideshows to a CD and send them to your friends and family.  They can replay the slideshow directly from the CD without installing any software. (requires Internet Explorer or other XML/XSL compatible browser)
• Multi-camera Support
• Control multiple cameras at once and command them all to take a picture at the same time.  Use it for 3D modeling, taking panoramas with moving subjects, and a whole lot more. 
• Motion detection (requires video capture device)
  • Set one or several motion detection zones and automatically take pictures whenever movement is detected on a zone.
  • Three detection algorythms for maximum flexibility.
  • Detection frame rates up to 20 fps.
• Highly extensible via SnapIns
  • Program Camera Controller to do nearly anything you want by writing simple, easy-to-write SnapIns that integrate seamlessly with Camera Controller.
• External shutter control
  • Write your own program to make use of external events to take pictures.
  • Control Camera Controller's shutter from another PC.
  • Control Camera Controller's shutter using external switches or electronics.  (additional hardware required)
• Quick download
  • Two click downloads from your camera to your PC.
• USB or RS-232 communication modes

Programmable exposure settings include

• Program Mode
  • Auto
  • Aperture Priority Mode
  • Shutter Priority Mode
  • Manual Program Mode including;
    • All available shutter speeds
    • All available apertures
• Focus modes
  • Auto
  • Macro
  • Manual
• Capture mode
  • Single - take a single picture and save to camera media
  • Buffer - take a single picture and download directly to PC, bypassing camera media
  • Burst mode - Take several pictures at once.  Also known as Drive mode.
• Zoom (Optical only)
• ISO
  • Auto
  • Manual
• Metering modes
  • Center
  • Pattern
• Internal Flash modes
  • Auto
  • On
  • Off
  • Red-Eye
  • Slow-Sync
• External Flash
  • On
  • Off
• White Balance (Presets only)
  • Auto
  • Daylight
  • Cloudy
  • Fluorescent
  • Fluorescent (Daylight)
  • Fluorescent (Cool White)
  • Fluorescent (Day White)
  • Tungsten