Specifications

Getting Started

Although the G3 and G4 cameras are intended for operation at night (or for

very low-light conditions at day), it is always better (and highly

recommended) to install software and to make sure everything is working

OK during day, before the first night under the stars.

The G3 and G4 CCD cameras can be in principle operated under various

CCD control software packages (refer to our web site for available drivers),

this manual demonstrates camera operation under the SIPS (Scientific

Image Processing System) – camera control and image processing software

suite supplied with the camera.

Camera System Driver Installation

Every USB device requires so-called “system driver”, incorporated directly

into the operating system kernel. Some devices (for instance USB Flash

Disk dongles) conform to some predefined class (USB mass-storage device

class in this case), so they can use the driver already present in the operating

system. But this is not the case of the G3 and G4 CCD camera – it requires

its own system driver to be installed.

Although 64 bit operating system can run 32 bit application without any

problems, it is basically impossible to combine e.g. 64 bit process with

32 bit dynamic link library. The same is valid for operating system kernel -

64 bit kernel cannot use 32 bit system driver. This is why all G3 and G4

camera drivers are supplied in two versions, one for 32 bit systems (marked

x86 according to Intel 386, 486 CPUs) another for 64 bit systems, marked

x64 (according to CPUs supporting 64 bit instructions marked x86-64 or

only x64).

The simplest way to install G3/G4 CCD camera system driver is to run

driver pre-installation package (“GxCam Drivers 32bit EN.exe“ or “GxCam

Drivers 64bit EN.exe”, provided with the camera or downloaded from a

web site) on the target computer. This package installs the driver for all Gx

cameras on the particular computer. Then it is enough to plug in the camera

and the operating system already knows which driver to use.

It is also possible to utilize Plug-and-play nature of USB devices and

Windows operating system. Simply plug the camera to power supply and