Frequently Asked Questions - Roundshot VR Drive Instruction Manual

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Frequently asked questions

Q: What are the ideal camera settings and accessories?
A: Ideal settings: manual exposure, manual focus, white balance
set to a fixed value. Accessories: additional spirit level in the
viewfinder shoe for levelling, fast CF storage card
(especially for "speed" mode), fixed white balance.
Q: I have a VR Drive "full" but the vertical motor does not respond. What can I do?
A: Please check if the cables are correctly plugged and if the vertical motor is activated in the
software (settings/general/"has y motor: yes").
Q: How can I connect the radio release unit?
A: Insert the radio release unit into the radio socket on the VR Drive.
Activate the radio release signal in the VR Drive software (settings/general/radio on).
Q: The performance of the VR Drive battery is less than expected. What is the problem?
A: When the radio release unit is connected and the function "remote radio" is set to "on",
the radio receiver will continously consume battery even if the VR Drive is turned off. To save
energy, turn "remote radio" to "off".
Q: How do I find the nodal point? Is there a database for nodal points for my camera/lens?
A: There is a simple procedure to set the nodal point for every camera/lens combination.
Please follow the instructions in section 3.1. Due to the virtually unlimited combination
possibilities of cameras, lenses, focal lengths and focusing distances, it is not possible to
provide a database of nodal points.
Q: How can I load a camera into the list of "my cameras" (favourites) that is currently not
included in the factory database?
A: Go to settings/database/my cameras.
Load any new camera from the database into the "my cameras" list.
Click on the new camera, edit the camera.
Overwrite the parameters: camera, type, X (mm), Y (mm).
For more information please read chapter 4.3 settings (database/my cameras).
Please contact us by email at seitz@roundshot.ch to report the new camera. We will then
include it in the camera database and provide the updated file (.csv) as a download in the
"Club VR Drive". It is then possible to update the factory list of cameras by a software update.
Instruction Manual Roundshot VR Drive version 2.03 – April 2012 – © by Seitz Phototechnik AG / Switzerland www.roundshot.ch page 134