Re: Home video surveillance

["BruceR" <brNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There are a lot of options with widely varying prices. www.pluscctv.com
has a nice selection and good pricing (even cheaper on their ebay
store).
I've played with several cameras and ended up biting the bullet and
going higher end. I have a couple of Panasonic HCM-280 units with
pan-tilt-zoom and internet access.  I'm building a house next door and
monitoring the progress with one of them. During daylight hours (Hawaii
time) you can see how it works by going to
http://brobin.gotdns.com:2345.

I also have a Toshiba internet enabled camera that has excellent low
light capabilities but the Panasonic is better overall.  For fixed
cameras you want to get one with a variable lens so you can customize it
to your situation. Without that you need to choose carefully. I have two
bullet cameras that look identical but have different fields of view
which makes a huge difference in gathering evidence quality recordings.


From:Frank
frank062547@xxxxxxxxxx

> Thanks Bruce.  The price had me skeptical to begin with.  Can you
> recommend a good vendor?  I don't mind cabling.
>
> BruceR wrote:
>> Sounds practical but beware of the X10 cameras - for the most part
>> they're junk. Get cameras with CCD sensors - not the cheap CMOS ones.