Setting Image Size, Quality and Camera Control (Video and Camera)

Brightness

Specify how the camera changes from the Day Mode to Night Mode. If you want to shoot video in color as long as possible, select “Darker”. If you want to rather suppress noises in video by capturing in black and white, select “Brighter”.

Luminance Sensitivity

Luminance Sensitivity refers to the time required for determining to switch between Day and Night modes.

“Low” : approx. 30 sec.

“High” : approx. 10 sec.

Day Mode or Night Mode switches when bright conditions remain above or below the threshold value for either of the above period of time.

If the brightness changes frequently, due to a light source passing in front of the camera for example, select “Low”. If the brightness does not change frequently, select “High”.

5Enable Digital Zoom

Check to enable Digital zoom.

* With the digital zoom, higher magnification causes lower image quality.

6Mount

Select a camera mount type. The factory default setting is Inverted.

7Return to Home Position when nobody has a control privilege.

When this option is checked and the home position is specified, the camera is moved to its home position if there is no request for a control privilege. You can set Home Position from VBAdmin Tools (P. 2-10).

When setting “Day & Night Mode” to “Auto”, be sure to test the camera operation in

Note advance to check effectiveness of this option.

When setting “Day & Night Mode” to “Auto”, use “Auto Exposure” (P. 3-28).

If you are using an infrared lamp, set the “Day & Night Mode” to “Manual”. You cannot use the Auto mode.

If you set the “Day & Night Mode” to “Auto”, the infrared cut filter may make several round trips when the camera switches the Day & Night modes.

Settings Detailed

Camera Name

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1Camera Name

This setting is required. You can use up to 15 ASCII characters (including blank and printable characters) for the camera name.

If you are using the Network Video Recorder VK-64/VK-16 (optional), the camera Note name specified here will be displayed when registering the camera.

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