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Re: Cameras from Henry's


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  • Subject: Re: Cameras from Henry's
  • From: "paul gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:00:59 GMT
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>Pinholes have fixed focal length, lenses are potentially replacable to
get
>the right angle of view (board cameras seem to come with a fairly wide
>angle lens).

In a front door scenario, I guess fixed focal length is a "good"
thing... -
people at the door are always a fixed distance from the camera, and I have
no wish to see cars/pedestrians going past my front gate....


>is that mono cameras are _much_ better in low light than colour ones,
and
>usually more sensitive to IR if you want invisible illumination.
>

I currently have a mono camera with built-in IR illumination, but I now
have
good visible light illumination in the cameras viewing area, courtesy of a
couple of downlighters built in to a false ceiling above the porch,
contolled by X10 and a PIR (and a Comfort response).

Paul G.

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