Erron S.

We appreciate the kinds words fellas!

It's a "cam-a-sauras-rex"! Does it still work?

The double sided tape is classic. I literally LOL'd at that one. Look an involuntary ptz!

^^^^LOL!!!

We've seen a huge swing in the last year. Now it's about 25% analog, 75% HD IP. A year ago it was the other way around. I think the consumer market is starting to figure out the advantages of the upper echelon camera systems.

Soundy, give me a ring. I can get you in direct contact with their US "main tech guy", Paul Kuzin.

Yes, yes it is! Careful though, if you know more than the instructor, you're offered his job.

Check is in the mail Soundy. There are always new installers that have 'a little' network experience. We show them how to identify a network and run the vast array of manufactures finder utilities and setup the camera through the web browser and see where it goes from there. We start off slowly and get more and more complex until we see the "deer in the headlights". That's when we stop. Some trainings are a few hours, some last for 3-5 days, it all depends on how in depth they want to get. We see everything from -never done it- all the way to full blown multi-certification 20 year veterans in the IT field.

You are certainly not asking too much Chris. In fact, it sounds what you are looking for a partner and not just a supplier. Thanks Soundy, I try my best to get here as often as I can.

Oh I SO want one of these. Hahahaha!

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HIK is also manufacturing a 1.3MP PTZ. I've sold a number of these to a few integrators. They are really, really nice! The price is great as well.

Besides New cameras how(if) can I eliminate the problem of IR Halo? You can try to seperate the IR portion with a piece of foam or something basically blocking the light from bouncing back into the lens.

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Hehehehe! I shouldn't laugh at that, but I've been there myself. Mine was into my friends brand new, not 25 miles on the odometer, Chevy Blazer that was parked at the end of the driveway. I feel ya man!

That is so cool! It even looks to be hand assembled and soldered.

I would consider a camera that has the 'sense up' feature. I'm wondering if you just may have enough ambient light to see out that far. Check out irfanview guys for doing post-recorded image modifications. I use that one with the additional options. Sometimes you can see things that the camera captured but aren't there to the naked eye.

Soundy is exactly right. There are a few storage calculators out there that will 'error on the side of caution' and give you a high number while others want their product to have a good perception and will swing the other way. The real issue is that no matter what it's just a ball park figure. Depending on the compression and the compression technique it can vary a lot. Not only that, but it can vary from day to day depending on what it is looking at. I know a number of systems currently installed in retail locations that get an excess of 3 months in recording time, but as soon as the holidays roll around they drop down to 1 month. Why? For a couple of reasons really. For one, their hours are extended to accommodate the holiday shoppers. Two, they used to have say 50 shoppers a day while now they are getting 250 a day. It's a -more- complex image to compress due to the additional activity and movement so the files sizes are larger as well as the motion based recording is longer. When it's all said and done the best way of calculating storage is to have experience with whatever recorder you are using and estimate it to the best of your ability. I've been selling the same recorder for getting close to a decade now so I can get pretty close but I'll never be 100% accurate because the scene is always changing due to the human element. If we are looking at say a production line (lighting never changes, movement is always the same, etc) then we could accurately quote a recording time frame but not until we saw what (enter your favorite compression technology here) compression was compressing the file size down to. Then with some basic math we could extrapolate the record time from the frames per second x 60 for the minute, x 60 for the hour, x 24 for the day and so on. You get the idea anyway. Hope that helps in some way!

Exactly right. I bet if you power it up you can still see the image it was used to look at.

The process I go through is pretty basic. I usually set the lens a general "fuzzy" image so I can at least somewhat see what I'm looking at. I then put something out at the target distance I want to focus in on like a parked car with a plate in view. I then zoom in on the NVR about 100-200% and very gently focus the lens. Is the lens just really sensitive or are you not able to get an image in focus at all?

What you can do is try and figure out a way to isolate the camera lens from the IR's. The only kicker to that would be if it's a dual glass window. Possibly some sticky foam around the lens or something to keep the glare from bouncing back in to the lens.

Most of the time I've seen this done, it's done with a cable tv modulator. You inject the signal into the existing the cable system that is typically run to every tv in the house already and the cctv system just becomes another channel. (usually channel 3) I think Channel Vision makes a decent one or at least it's what I've seen integrators use.

riyaz2222, what you are saying about the PTZ's not being practical is exactly the reason why so many chose going to megapixel cameras. In a lot of cases they still need a wide angle shot but need the pixels to be there after the fact. How far of a shot are you trying to capture? (distance from the camera basically)

Fantastic. If I can help or answer any questions please let me know.