Elmo P30 User manual

Elmo P30 Visualiser

First Question:
Q. Is everyone familiar with exactly what a visualiser is?
A. A visualiser is effectively a camera on an arm, usually with a
shooting stage and its own lighting source.
Camera head
Lighting unit
Shooting stage

History
Q. Which company invented the visualiser and why?
A. Elmo invented the visualiser. It was a product originally developed
for the scientific & medical market. Elmo themselves are based in
Japan and have been one of the world’s leading manufacturing of
cameras for over 80 years.

Moving up to date
Q. How have visualisers improved over the last few years?
A. Better cameras
• Higher resolution – older visualisers tend(ed) to have composite
video outputs. New units have XGA (or even SXGA) outputs
• Image capture to PC via USB connection
• USB-2 capability allows live XGA signals to be fed into a PC
offering annotation via interactive white board or tablet software

Demonstrating the P30
It is usually best to split your demonstration into two halves:
1. The first should concentrate on showing the your audience the
visualiser as a camera
2. The second demonstrates the Image Mate software and how the
image from the P30 can be used interactively (e.g. via a SMART
Board). It should also touch on recording video clips and the use
of the SD Card Reader.

Set up
• Connect the computer’s VGA output cable into the RGB input on the
P30.
• N.B. This may require you to disconnect an existing cable from wall
plate or splitter.
15 pin VGA cable from PC into visualiser

Set up
• Connecting the VGA output cable (supplied) will now drive projector
and PC monitor.
15 pin VGA cable from visualiser into wall point
(or splitter)
Connect power supply

Set up
• Connected in this way the visualiser will act as a switcher for the
incoming PC signal.
• Switching from ‘Camera’ mode to ‘PC’ mode to ‘SD Card Reader’
may be carried out from either the front panel or R/C.
Button to switch mode

Set up
• Check P30 is set to correct USB mode. (Factory default is ‘Mass
Storage’).
• Using on-screen ‘Menu’, change setting to ‘Application’. This only
has to be done once. N.B. Units shipping in the New Year are likely
to be set to this mode as standard in the factory.
Change mode to
‘Application’ if
required

Set up
• Install Image Mate software on to a PC – preferably your own, as it
is often difficult to get administrators rights to install software on
school PC’s.
• First step is to load CD, double click ‘Set Up’ and follow on-screen
instructions.
• Once this stage is complete, connect USB cable from PC to
visualiser. At this point PC should indicate ‘found new hardware’.
Follow on-screen instructions to complete installation.
USB cable from PC