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Adjusting the camera iris – Grass Valley RCP2050 User Manual

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Installation and Configuration

Adjusting the Camera Iris

Adjusting the Camera Iris

Fig. 2-4: Engineering Menu, Page 2

To configure the Camera/Joystick Iris:

1 Turn AUTO IRIS off.

2 Pull joystick toward minimum iris position (all the way back towards you) and set

MASTER PEDESTAL knob to mid- point.("12 O'Clock")

3 Press ENGR to enter the ENGINEERING screen.

4 Using the rotary control click on NEXT MENU until you reach ENGINEERING MENU 2.

5 Select Cal Joy\Ped with rotary encoder and then push rotary encoder to set. The display

will report Done.

6 Scroll down to Joystick min and press the rotary encoder switch. The OSD will report

Joystick min: Busy and display the iris value.

7 Use the rotary encoder to set the camera's iris to the Closed position, ideally by viewing

the iris ring on the lens of the camera. If this is not possible due to the location of the
camera, then set the iris value to the Closed position according to the On Screen
Display
message (see notes below).

8 Once the iris is set to the Closed position, press the rotary encoder to confirm the

setting and the display will change from Busy to Done.

9 Push the joystick all the way forward and select Joystick Max and press the rotary

encoder switch. The OSD will report Joystick max: Busy and display the iris value.

10 Use the rotary control to set the camera's iris to the fully open position, ideally by

viewing the iris ring on the lens of the camera. If this is not possible due to the location
of the camera, then set the maximum iris value to the Open position according to the
On Screen Display message (see notes below).

11 Once the iris is set to the open position, click the rotary control to confirm the setting

and the display will change from Busy to Done.

12 Press ENGR to exit.

13 Check that the iris can be controlled by the joystick across the complete range.