Swann OSD docs do not match their 642/760 cameras!

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I have both Swann PRO-642 and PRO-760 cameras. I read in the instruction manuals that the advanced OSD instructions were on their web site...

 

So I went to www.swann.com/us/ and downloaded the documents.

 

The menus in their OSD documents DO NOT MATCH the menus on the above cameras!!! Totally different. Does anyone ever read their documentation and update it?

 

There are settings in the documentation which are not on the cameras and settings on the cameras which are not mentioned in the documentation.

 

Anyway I did some poking around and it seems the OSD menus change depending on which Sony Effio chip type/version a camera is using. So you can search google for the following as an example...

 

pdf Effio-S OSD

 

...and find OSD instructions which match the PRO-760 camera.

 

For the PRO-642 camera, I searched for unique words in its menu like...

 

pdf exposure "image set" OSD

 

...and found a couple of documents which are quite close to the OSD menu in that camera.

 

FYI - Following are the various Effio versions I have found so far. Search for OSD on each of those and the documents will all have different menus!

 

Effio

Effio-E (Entry)

Effio-S(Standard)

Effio-P(Professional)

Effio-V

Effio-DSP

Effio-P DSP

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FYI - The following document REALLY explains all these OSD settings quite well. It has explanations and pictures to go along with those explanations...

 

http://www.seco-larm.com/pdfs/Mi-EV-2726-NxxQ_OSD.pdf