HD Wing Camera II Short manual for use in R/C planes English version Dan Dolata Ad Astra on RCGroups.com

HD Wing Camera II Short manual for use in R/C planes English version Dan Dolata Ad Astra on RCGroups.com

This is the back end of the camera. The top slot is the one for the micro SD card. Use at least a C4 card, or one with a higher number. The other two connectors are HDMI (the wide one in the middle) and micro USB (the narrow one on the bottom). Use caution when using the micro USB connector. These are notorious for being delicate and breaking off. The black and gold thing is the microphone. If the audio is important to you, then you might want to consider the placement of the microphone carefully. For example, If you are using a pusher airplane and have the camera mounted on the front, then the microphone will be aimed at the motor and prop. You might want to consider putting a block of sound absorbing material behind the camera to absorb the motor noise, and to face it with a sound reflective hard surface (coroplast, etc) to bounce sound from in front of the plane back towards the microphone. I simply muted mine with foam since I don't plan to use the audio portion much (yet).

The other end looks like this. You can see the lens and the vibrator. Personally, I don't like to have vibration directly connected to my electronics. One of the main causes of IC chip failure is gold-wire debonding because of vibration. I don't want to contribute to that. Looking carefully at it, I believe the original didn't have the vibrator directly connected to the board. Fortunately, a very gentle upwards (away from the PC board) on the weight dislodged it from the board. I then made a careful cut of the heat shrink next to the wires, and was able to pull the vibrator about 1 cm away from the camera connected by just two wires. It no longer transmits a lot of vibration to the camera. The following picture is the bottom of the camera. The major items are labeled. Right below that is a label that you can cut out and glueit to the bottom to help remember what things do what. The three buttons have combined functions: ON?OFF - Power, Mode, or "Up" button REC/PLAY - Record, Play, or "Execute" button LED - LED (we don't get an LED), or "Down" button

LED REC/PLAY ON/OFF USB Charge LED Function LEDs

Quick Start Taking a basic video Most of us want to get it onto a plane and fly it, without a lot of setup and foo-rah. The following will record a video in standard 1280 * 720 P, 60 fps mode. 1. Insert the micro SD card. Cat 4 or better. 2. Mount it on the plane. I would use an anti-vibration pad at the least. 3. Turn it on. Hold the PWR button down for 2 seconds. It will vibrate and a solid blue LED should be lit. If it is flashing purple then it means your SD card didn't mount correctly. Turn it off by holding down the PWR button for a long time, and then reseat the SD card. 4. Push the REC button to start recording. The vibrator will spin briefly, and the blue LED will flash on and off about 1/second. 5. After flight, push the REC button again to stop recording. The vibrator will try to destroy your chips for a half second, and the blue LED will become steady. 6. If you want to make more recordings you can repeat steps 4 and 5 7. When you are finished, hold down the power button until the vibrator goes crazy, the red LED flashes several times, and then it will power off. Capturing the videos Method A 1. Remove the micro SD card from the camera. 2. Mount it in the SD card holder when necessary. 3. Slide the micro SD card, or the SD card holder, into your device (computer, mobile device, etc). 4. Windows - Browse to <disk letter>:\dcim\100media 5. Copy the files to your hard drive 6. Delete the files from the SD card if you wish Method B 1. Connect the camera to the computer using the USB-MicroUSB cable provided 2. Turn ON the camera 3. You may now browse into <disk letter>:\dcim\100media 4. Copy the files to your hard drive 5. Delete the files from the SD card if you wish 6. To turn the camera off, push the LED button first, and then the PWR button 7. This method charges the battery while it is plugged in. The yellow indicator LED will glow to show that it is charging. It will charge faster if the PWR is off. 8. Be very careful when plugging/unplugging the Micro USB cable. That's it. That's the basic mode of operation.

Slightly Fancy Stuff Okay, so you can take a video in the standard format and capture it to your PC. Great. Now, what if you want to do a few fancier things. Here you go. Changing the Parameters, such as resolution/fps You need to see the video output of the device. You have two alternatives - HDMI and AV. I used the HDMI method since i could plug that straight into my flat panel monitor. I assume the AV will work similarly, but you are on your own. 1. Plug the HDMI cable into the camera and into the TV/Screen/etc 2. If necessary, set the screen so that the video input is HDMI 3. Turn on the camera. The blue LED should light up. 4. At this point you can playback the videos. 5. Hold down the center button for a long time. The display on the screen will change and you will see an old fashioned "menu", similar to setting a BIOS 6. A short press on the PWR button will act as an UP button. A short press on the LED button is a DOWN button. A short press on the center button is an ENTER or SELECT button. 7. You will see a series of boxes with the following labels Resolution Quality Photo Size Time Stamp Flicker TV type Time and Date Record Overwrite Beep Sound Format Auto Power Off Language Default Firmware 8. You can use the UP/DOWN buttons to access any box. 9. You use the central button to SELECT a box. 10. Each box will have a number of options which you can scroll through using the UP/DOWN buttons. The options are described at the end of this text. 11. A short press on the central button will SELECT an option and return to the top menu. 12. A long press on the central SELECT button will exit the parameter selection option Reset To reset the system, hold down both the PWR and LED button. This will cause a shutdown. Turn on as normal.

Other Capabilities This camera can do other things as well. However, the RC world is probably not very interested in still photography, audio only, etc. Here is a list of what it can do. The instructions can be found in the original "English" manual. Still Photos - section 5 Audio Recording - section 6 Laser for aiming help - NOT in this unit - sections 7, 8 Auto shut off - section 9 AC adapter - NOT in this unit - section 13 Shooting when charging - No AC adapter - Section 14 TV playback - (but why not copy the files to disk?) - section 15 Video and/or Photo taking while connected to TV - FPV might be possible - section 16 Parameters - details Resolution Full HD30-1920*1080, 30 fps 1080P30-1440*1080, 30 fps 720P60-1280*720, 60 fps. better for fast motion. Planning on crashing? 720P30-1280*720, 30 fps, better for dark lighting Quality H, M, L Approximate amount of recording time on a 4 GB SD card Quality H Quality M Quality L 1920*1080P, 30 fps 41 49 62 1440*1080P, 30 fps 41 49 62 1280*720P, 60 fps 41 54 82 1280*720P, 30 fps 62 82 123 Photo Size 12M 4000*3000 JPG Approx. 900pcs/4GB 8M 3200*2400 JPG Approx. 1200pcs/4GB 5M 2592*1944 JPG Approx. 1700pcs/4GB Time Stamp ON/OFF Flicker Auto, 60 Hz, 50 Hz

TV type NTSC, PAL Time and Date set time and date Record Overwrite Off - camera will shut down when memory is full 2 min, 5 min, 15 min - camera will auto save after this period of time. When memory is full it will overwrite the earliest files in order. Beep Sound On/Off (only on HDMI/AV screen) Format Yes/No (Format the SD card) Auto Power Off OFF, 1, 2, 5 min Language (lots of choices) Default Yes/No (return to factory default) Firmware Show current firmware version