Kuper Still Camera Trigger Box

"I want one."

-- John Ashlee, Director of Photography

Finally, a practical way to control a still camera from a motion control system!

This box allows you to interface just about any still camera, SLR or industrial, to a Kuper, and use all the various motion control shooting modes, including continuous motion passes, go-motion animation, exposure ramping and foreground/background work with different exposures.

Additional outputs allow you to trigger secondary equipment like framestores or video capture systems.

Features:

• Allows Kuper software to easily control digital cameras
• Output signals track the Kuper camera output channel, just like a film camera, allowing all the "special" Kuper exposure modes, including intervalometer and synthetic shutter
• No unusual Kuper setup is necessary, once the interface box is programmed, it operates automatically, tracking the "camera" output.
• Generates three separate, finely adjustable, output signals
• For industrial cameras, the signals can control sensor reset, shutter, and frame grab
• For consumer cameras, the signals can control "two-step" shutter releases
• All signal timing is completely adjustable with 1 degree of resolution
• On-board high speed serial port
• Transmits a continuous stream of status information for "smart" applications
• Supports easy programming and setup via a standard PC terminal program like Windows Hyperterminal
• Outputs signals are totally isolated from the Kuper inputs
• Intuitive, easy to understand controls and displays
• Equipped with a universal 100-240V power supply

Please note: Most users will have no problem connecting this box to their still cameras. For typical applications, a remote release cable appropriate for the camera is modified to connect to the box, and the camera is triggered by a relay closure.

For applications where the camera is mounted on a large motion control rig with high voltage motors, or similar situations where there is a large amount of electrical noise in the area, enough noise may be coupled into a long release cable to introduce triggering problems. For situations like this, we are happy to help you with an opto-isolated release.

Prices vary, since the cables are different for each camera.