Controls and Buons
1. On/O Buon. This buon powers the camera on and o. If the baery is installed and the power adapter is aached, the
baery charging dialog will appear (see the secon on Power, below).
2. Display Buon. The Display Buon controls the LCD display on the back of the camera. Pressing the buon toggles the Display
through several modes: Display on, Display on with Histogram, and Display o. When reviewing clips, it also turns playback
controls and per frame metadata on and o.
3. Menu Buon. The Menu Buon toggles the on screen menus on and o. While navigang menus, the Menu Buon is used to go
backward through levels of the menu. (When touch-enabled the icon in the upper le of the screen has the same funcon.)
4. Direconal Pad (D-Pad) . The D-Pad has 5 actuaon points consisng of 4 arrows for navigang the menu and an OK Buon in
the center to select.
5. Arm Buon. When the Arm Buon is pressed the camera locks in its conguraon sengs and begins to store pre-trigger
images in internal memory. (If Low Light has been selected for live viewing, the camera will now revert to its selected exposure.)
6. Trigger Buon. When the camera has been armed and is recording, pushing the Trigger Buon prompts the camera to record
the Trigger frame (frame 0) and any post-trigger frames to complete the recording and stop.
7. Touch Control. With touch enabled you can move through the menus and dialog boxes simply by touching the display. If Touch
is not enabled, navigate to the System menu and down to “Touchscreen” using the D-Pad. Click on the “Disabled” buon. The
display will go blank except for a small icon in the upper le corner. Touch that icon to display the menus.
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Power
• Turn the camera on by pressing the Power Buon.
• If the DC power adapter is aached and the baery is installed, the baery charge dialog will appear on the screen. By default,
the camera will begin charging the baery if it is not already fully charged.
• From the charging dialog, the user must select “Camera On” to boot the camera.
• When the camera boots up it will use the same sengs it had when it was last powered down “politely.” If the camera was
powered down by removing power or by holding down the power buon, the sengs are not saved.
• The camera baery does not charge while the camera is in use. With the camera powered on and aached to the DC power
adapter, press the Power Buon once to open the Camera charging dialog. While the camera is charging, the Baery LED will
blink. When the baery is completely charged the camera will fully power down. This may take up to 5 hours.
Record
1. Navigate to the Record Sengs Sub-Menu and set the resoluon and speed desired.
2. Navigate to the Record Shuer Speed Sub-Menu and set the desired exposure.
3. Navigate to the Control Menu, Trigger Posion Sub-Menu and set the desired Trigger point. Seng the trigger point divides the
internal memory into two secons: 1) a circular buer reserved for pre-trigger frames; 2) a second buer for post-trigger frames.
The images recorded before the trigger are given negave frame numbers (oldest is most negave, the newest is -1), the image
taken at the me of the trigger is “frame 0,” and all frames taken aer the trigger are given posive numbers. Note that with an
“End” trigger, all frames will have negave numbers except for frame 0, which will be the last frame. With a “Start Trigger” the
recording will begin at frame “0” and all subsequent frames will have posive numbers.
4. Press the Arm Buon to begin recording pre-trigger frames. The camera sengs will be locked in. If you wish to abort the
recording to change sengs, press the Arm Buon again. Note the camera may remain Armed for an indenite period of me
because it is overwring its circular buer, it never runs out of space, but only retains the newest images.
5. Trigger the camera via the Trigger Buon or a Trigger Signal to the Sync I/O port to complete the recording. The TS3 will now
enter Review Mode, unless it is set to AutoSave, in which case the camera will download the recording, then revert to Armed
Mode.
