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GigaPan Pro User Guide
Pre-trigger Delay {0.0s, 0.5s, 1.0s, 1.5s, 2.0s, 2.5s, 3.0s} This delay is between the EPIC Pro move-
ments and the electronic trigger signal to your camera. This allows a lens and camera body to
settle after an EPIC Pro movement. This is especially important for large and longer focal length
lenses.
Bracket Delay - Time delay added to allow your camera to not overflow its memory buffer
while capturing exposure brackets for HDR images. Programmable between 0.1 seconds and 8
seconds.
Backlight Mode - This setting allows you to choose when the backlight is in use. The options are
Power Save, Always Off, Always On.
Auto Off Timer – This setting controls when the EPIC Pro unit will power down automatically if
idle. The default setting is 5 minutes. You can also set auto-off to "10 minutes" or "disable".
Aspect Ratio - The ratio of the width to height of the camera system. The default setting is 3
units wide by 2 units high which is the default setting for standard DSLR cameras. You can set
'Aspect Ratio' to the following values of width to height {1:1, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, and custom values
0.50:1, 0.55:1, ... through 2.00:1}
Picture Overlap {25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%,} This setting allows
you to increase the overlap to compensate for vignetting, or poor performance of a lens at the
edges of the glass. Increasing this value may help give the stitch software more common area to
find control points. The EPIC Pro default picture overlap is 30%.
Last Pic Hold - Continues to assert the shutter signal after the last photograph in the panorama
so that a camera does not power down. This is especially useful for the timelapse function.
Optimize Pan – Whenever a pan motion greater than 180 degrees is required, the EPIC Pro will
travel in the opposite direction (which is shorter, takes less time) to reach the next position.
The default setting is "ON". Use caution if you are doing a 360-panorama, for example; each
subsequent row will cause the unit to rotate another revolution, winding up any cables that are
attached to the unit (e.g., battery charger, remote switch). Turning it OFF will cause pan motions
to move strictly back and forth and prevent any "wind-up". When doing a 360 panorama and
any cords are wrapping around the unit, turn optimize pan OFF.
Shutter Feedback - Used to automatically detect a missed photograph at each position and
retry again up to ten times. You must set the camera to focus priority, set 'Expert Options'-
>'Shutter Retries' and connect a sync cable between the camera and the EPIC Pro. The sync
cable has a PC connector at one end and a mini plug at the other end. You connect the PC con-
nector to the camera and the mini plug to the EPIC Pro remote trigger cable port. If your camera
does not include a PC connector, you can purchase a hot shoe adapter that has a PC connector.
Shutter Retries - Determines the maximum number of times to retry per position when the
shutter fails to trigger. Only visible when 'Expert Options'->'Shutter Feedback' is set to ON. May
be set from one to ten retries.
Quick Menu Setup - Allows you to change which six items will be accessible from the quick
menu. The quick menu is accessed by pressing and holding the left X button for one to two
seconds. Useful menu items might be {Time/Exposure, Pretrigger delay, Mult Picture, Battery
Status, Shutter Length, Mirror Lock-up}.
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