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CCTV Security Camera
Recommendations
Get a good face shot: Use Higher quality cameras at entry areas
Doors, gates and other entry areas need a good
quality, high resolution camera to record a good 'face shot.'
The video from this camera should be considered a highly
valuable
since it can be used as evidence in identifying a person in a
court of law. This is a classic use for
 Wide Dynamic
technology that is designed to capture clear, easy-to-view
images under poor or unpredictable lighting conditions. Such as
occur near doors where the lighting can suddenly change and
become brighter or darker.
Click the link below for a
quote on a wide dynamic cctv camera:
Wide Dynamic Camera Quote
Wide
Angle Cameras for large surveillance areas
Once you can get a good shot of a persons face, you should use a wider angle
camera lens for the interior surveillance spaces of the building.
Using color cameras inside your building is a good idea because
you can readily identify a person by the clothes they are
wearing. Used in conjunction with the face shot at the entry point, you have
an excellent record of all people and activities in your
surveillance areas.
They're Low Cost, High Performance, can be uses
indoors and outdoors and available in Color or B&W. Dome
cams and bullet cams come in many low cost models. Good quality
B&W cams start at less than $80 and good color cams start at $150.
When it comes to budgets, having a low cost black & white camera is
better than no camera at all.
Black and white cameras have advantages over
color security cameras
Most B/W cameras can see in lower light and have higher
resolution than color cameras. If most of your surveillance goals are
at night and your budget is limited, a black & white camera may actually be your best solution.
Click the link below for a
quote on a cctv camera:
4mm Fixed Lens B&W Bullet Camera
8mm
Fixed Lens B&W Bullet Camera
Varifocal 4-8mm B&W Bullet Camera
 Fixed Lens Super High Res 4mm Dome Camera
Fixed Lens Super High Res 8mm Dome Camera
Varifocal Super High Res 4-8mm Dome Camera
Professional and
 Standard C-Mount Cameras
If your budget permits, a
c-mount camera offer a big advantage over other cctv cameras.
C-Mount or CS-Mount?
C-mount and CS-Mount lenses offer similar
performance, the only real difference is the way the lens mounts
to the camera. And that's not a problem since the
adapter to convert 'C-Mount' to 'CS-Mount' comes with the camera. This
enables the camera to use either C-Mount or CS-Mount lenses.
Lenses can be
changed!
They simply unscrew from the camera body, just like the way
lenses are removed from traditional cameras. There are lens
options from 2.5mm up to 500mm providing many different
magnification options.
In general, an 8mm lens is like a 4mm lens
magnified 200%. A 16mm lens is like the 4mm lens
magnified 400%
Click the link below for a quote:
Professional C-Mount B&W Camera with Fixed 4mm Lens
Professional C-Mount Camera with Fixed 4mm Lens
Professional C-Mount Camera with Varifocal 4-8mm Lens
Professional C-Mount Camera with Varifocal 4-16mm Lens
Professional C-Mount Camera with Varifocal 4-8mm Lens in Outdoor
Housing
Outdoor Housing
C-mount
cameras can be used outside when put in an outdoor camera
housing like the photo to the right needed to protect the
camera. Heat and Fans are necessary in the 'extreme climate
areas.'
See our outdoor housings
Varifocal Lenses
You can also use a
varifocal lens on a c-mount camera body. The higher millimeter of the lens
the further distance viewable. C-Mount cameras can use a
varifocal lens. This is a huge advantage because you can adjust
zoom and focus. With Varifocal lenses the focus can be varied from 5mm to
20mm or more.
Even after installed, the varifocal camera lens can be adjusted to choose a variety of focal distances and angles of view. An example
of where you might use a varifocal lens is outside (or inside) a
warehouse or parking lot where you need more distance than 35
feet.
 Pan-Tilt-Zoom
Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras also known as PTZ cameras are excellent
devices to use when you want to 'look around' your surveillance
area.
PTZ cameras allow you to pan an entire room, tilt up and
down and zoom in on anything or anybody within the sight of the
lens.
PTZ cameras can be set to automatic or manual mode or
both. In automatic mode, hundreds of points can be set for the
camera to look at. The duration that the camera looks at a given
set point can be adjusted from less than a second to as long as
you would like.
There are some variances in different models.
Some have 17x zooms while others have 50x zooms or more.
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link below for a quote:
17x PTZ Color Dome Camera
21x
PTZ Color Dome Camera
50x
PTZ Color Dome Camera
Additional information regarding commonly used CCTV cameras:
Bullet Cameras
Dome Cameras
PTZ Cameras
Professional C-Mount Cameras and Lenses
Night Vision Infrared CCTV Cameras
Covert Cameras
VP Bill Schiering Lists His CCTV Camera Recommendations
About CCTV Security Cameras: Closed circuit television also known as CCTV
is the industry standard in surveillance security cameras. CCTV can be a
single network of cameras or multiple networks of camera linked
together via switches, internet, dvr or wide area computer
technology. CCTV Video data is analog. The analog signal can be converted to
digital via CCTV Digital Video Recorders. Once the video data is
digital it can be managed just like any other computer data and
can be stored automatically on computers and network storage
devices.
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