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Bulb sec

Prefocus

Device Settings

Parameter

Trigger Type

Trigger Value

Power

Sensor Settings

The camera should be set to take a picture using aperture priority to allow the shutter speed to vary

as the daylight dims (or you may choose to set up the camera for the shot in manual mode). These

Camera Axe settings will trigger a shot each time the daylight dims by 10 units on the light sensor.

The camera will be triggered with no delay for 1 second (but the shutter time will be based on the

camera settings), with no additional time for pre-focus.

When you start the sensor it records the base value and then a trigger happens when a difference

greater than the threshold value is recorded. Then once the bulb has finished a new base value is

recorded. This works well for sunsets where you want to take a picture as the light changed gradually.

Laser Sensor

The laser sensor isn't really a sensor in that it doesn't trigger a device but it can be used with the

light sensor to create a beam of light that can be broken to trigger the light sensor. When using the

Advanced Sensor menu as described above, when the laser is plugged into a sensor port on the

Camera Axe, it can be turned off just before triggering the flash to keep the laser light from being in

the shot.

An example of how the laser sensor could be used would be to trigger a shot when a cat walks though

the laser beam in the dark. This could be done with the following settings in the Advanced Sensor

menu.

For this use case, the camera is plugged into the Camera/Flash 1 port and a flash is plugged into the

Camera/Flash 2 port. The light sensor is plugged into the Sensor 1 port and the laser is plugged into

the Sensor 2 port.

Sensor1

Sensor2

Threshld

Low

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