elengenesseajm 0 Posted March 29, 2012 Hello, I've been lucky enough to get a Panasonic WVCP410 analogue colour CCTV from a medical practitioner on their retirement (used for human iris imaging) and have very excitedly been trying to hook it up to my PC and laptop. On their advising I'm currently using a video capture cable and after much head scratching I've managed to get a picture. It's pretty clear but alas, there's no colour! As they don't have any answers for me ("It's always worked just fine on my laptop") I was wondering if any kind soul could point me in the general direction of how I should be going about setting up this unit for image capture. So far I've tried numerous PAL and NTSC settings on two different S-video cables and 3 different capture software programs (only getting a black and white picture on 2 - on the 3rd it doesn't even detect a camera attached). I have the manual for the camera, but it doesn't give me any troubleshooting or PC attachment installation information, The camera won't be used for continual recording, but for medical purposes for skin and eye closeup analysis - so image snapshots taken with video capture software. Thankyou in advance for any ideas. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soundy 1 Posted March 29, 2012 Why are you using an S-video cable? That camera doesn't output S-video (Y/C), only composite (CVBS). What capture device are you using to plug it into your laptop? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elengenesseajm 0 Posted March 30, 2012 Well, I'm using an S-Video cable because that's what was connected to it when I received it. That's what the previous owner had been using to connect to their internal video tuner card. Their card unfortunately only gives me black and white feed when installed in my PC, and yeah, can't install it in my laptop to try. As an external option I've currently got a Compro Technology video tuner that, once again, gives me only b/w feed (and quite fuzzy) Thankyou for the info, I think I'll have to head out tonight with the cable and ask a electronics supply store for the composite equivalent for the outgoing connection. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elengenesseajm 0 Posted April 9, 2012 Unfortunately even with a Composite cable it's not working. I'm at the end of my rope on this and getting extremely frustrated. Does anyone have a suggestion of what capture software I should be using etc? Some of the programs don't recognise a camera being connected at all, and others just show a black screen. With the S-video cable I at least got a b/w image, with composite it's just blank. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soundy 1 Posted April 9, 2012 Can you try connecting it directly to a TV or something (to the yellow A/V input) and confirm that the camera is actually producing a proper color signal? Honestly, if this is for actual business purposes, I'd suggest just spending a few bucks to do it right and not worry about fiddling around trying to get an old used camera working with some cheap capture hardware. My last eye exam, they actually had a digital SLR (Canon of some kind, probably worth about $600-$700) set up to take retina photos... and that would produce probably 12-16MP images, rather than the 0.4MP images you're going to get out of your little capture device and analog camera. Just saying, with today's technology, you can do WAY WAY better for not a whole lot of money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
