Sony FCB serie
more infos: http://www.sony.net/Products/ISP/
or http://www.sony-vision.com/

• Main feature:

FCB camera could be used with the VISCA-RS232C communication protocol. In order to use this protocol and to send command to the camera, we need a Keyspan interface (USB to serial rs232 connection).

• Hardware:

Serial cable @ 9600 Bauds have limitation lenght:
25 m maximum for good command transmission between camera and computer.
40 m maximum with High quality serial cable.

Keyspan (usb to rs232)
more infos: http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19w/

• Software/Patch:

Tech download section

patch: camera_ctrl02a
what's new?
- Pattrstorage: could preset now camera_control patch configuration
- remote address: camera.preset <int>, send a integer to the interpolation of pattrstorage object.
- priority and interpolation could be edited in the patcher 'pattrstorage message'.
- bang to open the serial patcher in order to change the serial port (Keyspan usb port)
- Still buggy with Visca & Max communication (working on it!)

patch: camera_ctrl01a
Known bugs:
- Focus parameter problem
- Visca protocol and Max serial object communication implementation is under revision (working on it actually!)

This patch allow to use 3 FCB serial camera (add Bpatcher as you need!)