Original Z 5, Z 6, Z 7 and Z 50
The original Z 5, Z 6, Z 7 and Z 50 share the generation 1 vendor surface. They are untested on the landing page. Field reports from a Z 5, a Z 6 and a Z 7 have shaped a separate connect sequence for them, and live view over USB-C is confirmed on a Z 7. OpenZCine support is documented separately in the iOS and Android pages.
Find a finding
Section titled “Find a finding”| Reference | Contents |
|---|---|
| Connection and reconnect | The generation 1 connect sequence, the name fallback when DeviceInfo is missing, USB ordering and the live-view configuration fix |
Vendor surface
Section titled “Vendor surface”| Surface | Generation 1 | Generation 3 (ZR) |
|---|---|---|
| App control | Write 1 to ApplicationMode (0xD1F0) |
ChangeApplicationMode (0x9435) |
| Network pairing | None. Joining the camera’s network is the trust boundary. | GetPairingInfo / ConfirmPairing |
| Vendor codes | GetVendorPropCodes (0x90CA, 2-byte codes) |
GetVendorCodes (0x9439) |
| Extended property ops | Not implemented | 0x943A to 0x943C |
| Live-view header | 512 bytes before the JPEG | 1024 bytes |
When GetDeviceInfo does not arrive and the camera name is an original Z 5, Z 6,
Z 7 or Z 50, the app assumes this conservative operation set:
0x90CA 0x90C2 0x9201 0x9202 0x9203 0x9428 0x90C7 0x941C 0x90C80x100E 0x9207 0x90C0 0x90CB 0x920CIt is not a model table for a live body: advertised operations still win. It exists so a failed probe cannot fall through to the pairing and app-mode operations these bodies never implemented.
Live-view header
Section titled “Live-view header”Observed on a Z 7 over USB-C (#368): the display-info header before the JPEG is 512 bytes, not the 1024 confirmed on the ZR. The fields the ZR carries past byte 512 (sound level at 824, record state at 828, rotation at 839, level angles) are generation 3 additions. The parser caps the header at 512 bytes when the JPEG start marker sits there, so those fields fall back to safe defaults instead of reading picture data.
Field reports
Section titled “Field reports”| Report | Body | Finding | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| #292 | Z 5 | The camera showed a wireless error during connect: pairing and app-mode operations ran before DeviceInfo could gate them | Fixed; [verify-on-HW] Z 5 over the camera access point |
| #348 | Z 6, firmware 3.80 | Neither USB nor Wi-Fi completed from an iPad | Name fallback and USB ordering fixed; awaiting a hardware matrix |
| #368 | Z 7 | Live view never started over USB-C | Fixed and confirmed on a Z 7 over USB-C |
Keep the landing page status at untested for each body until USB and the camera’s connect-to-computer Wi-Fi both complete on real hardware (investigation).