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one good thing about ebay is that they have very good buyer protection. in some cases too good. They will always side with the buyer, even if the buyer is wrong. And you are definetely not wrong in this case. But my point is, all you have to do is open a case with the ebay buyer protection and the worst thing you will be out of is the shipping costs that you will incur to ship the PTZ back to the company, you will need to provide ebay with a tracking number once you ship it to prove to them when the item gets delivered. That way if the company jacks around and doesnt give you a refund, ebay/paypal will automatically take it out of their paypal account and put it in yours.

I wonder if its the lens then and not the appropriate one for the camera. If you can take a picture of the lens, I can probably tell you if it is or not. Do you have a vari-focal lens that you can try, probably have one that is attached to your KC552BCN.

I have had thousands of these cameras move through our warehouse, I wouldnt spend money on getting any kind of filters or to do to several knit picking techiniques to get a razor sharp image. Its an old B/W camera that was used back in "Saved by the Bell" days and you arent going to get a huge amount of performance from it. Just adjust the back focus ring until you see it come into focus a little and then focus it with the lens.

Perhaps your lens is not getting close enough to the CCD. Probably just needs a back focus ring adjustment. Loosen up the back focus ring screw on the camera and then turn the back focus ring all the way clock wise, then put on the lens. It may be the case that you need to turn the back focus ring all the way counter clockwise

Sometimes this assumption is incorrect as you may have the ports forwarded to an IP that is out of the routers DHCP range. The only way to tell is to have your DVR pull an IP via DHCP and/or call your ISP and see if they are actually blocking port 80

Normally, if your camera has an adjustable OSD menu, you can go in there and lower the gain settings which will help reduce the overexposure problem you are having with the IR whiteout problem. Right now, your camera is trying to electronically make the brightest picture possible at night, but in turn is making it too bright for faces. By lowering your gain settings, the picture wont appear as bright but will reduce the white out effect that you are having. You can try that with your current cameras to avoid having to spend more money on other ones. If those cameras do not have adjustable OSD, we have some that do have adjustable OSD that you can adjust the gain settings, checkout our Dahua 650 and 700 series IR cameras, we are out of the BT650 right now unfortunately but do have the dome version. I would probably lean more towards our 650 series as it has less IR bulbs and will reduce the IR whiteout effect with less IR leds. Or, you can do as shockwave said and get a smart IR camera which physically reduces or increases the power of the IR depending on how close an object is to the camera.

What happens when you hook the SDI connection up to an SDI dvr?

I apologize, I didnt read through the whole posts so if I miss something, I am sorry. but I once used that same exact controller to try out and 2 out of the 3 I ordered did not work, so that very well could be the problem. I would recommend getting a better controller or using a DVR to control it. Also some things to consider. does the bosch have dip switches in which you can set the baud rate, protocol, and cam ID? If so, make sure the camera and the controller match up. If after matching up those 3 vital elements and it still doesnt work, then please ditch that cheap controller and get a good one.

and the lady lighting up in the restaraunt

cool feature

That sounds like a power supply issue. voltage drop or amperage loss could be one of the problems

Quad Processor

Thats the same thing I was talking about correct? You want to have 4 cameras on one of the 8 squares?

So basically, if you have a 4 channel DVR, you could put 4 cameras into one of the squares, effectively getting 16 cameras on a 4 channel DVR? Yeah you could do it, but just note that the 4 squares will be small and you wont be able to enlarge them to regular size on playback. In order to achieve this, you would need a quad processor running into each channel.

Oh yeah, Samsung SCC-130A/B and SCC-131A/B can use both DC and Video driven lenses.

The Samsung is okay but keep in mind it does not have removable IR cut filter in it (it has permanent IR filter) so the night time performance will not be as good as the Dahua. Plus, you would not be able to use IR illuminators, ever you ever wanted to, with the Samsung.

If comparing the Zoom cam with the Dahua box camera, I would go with the Box camera as opposed to the zoom camera. The zoom camera only becomes relevant if you are there to control it all the time. And the box camera will give you much better performance. The zoom cam is cool, but for a dedicated purpose, go with the box. I may be biased, but that box camera is one of the best Analog cameras around.

I always recommend running PTZ's off of their own PSU

Cool. I got my childhood TV up here at my warehouse too. It came a few years earlier, but I guess this one was high tech back then because it has RCA inputs on it. Those little 13" TV's are great for analog cameras though.

oh okay. Oldie but goodie eh?

Hi Jason, No need for a modulator if your TV has an RCA video input. You just need one of these: I'll send you one tomorrow.

Hi Jason, In your second video, you have a color rolling issue due to the certain type of lighting. Within the menu, there is a setting called "Anti CR" which will take care of that issue. Also, maybe its just me, but that same video appears to be slightly out of focus.

Quite the amazing colors that the PTZ has due to the water, I guess that it one positive way of looking at it...........

looks like RCA input. Just use an RCA cable with a BNC adapter on one end to plug into your cameras

I have had Modern Warfare 3 for about a month. But my wife just got me Battlefield 3 for Christmas.................................. Yeah thats right, I still play video games being a grown adult, deal with it Anyways this is on the Xbox 360 console. BF3 doesnt match up to the fun level that the Call of Duty games offer. It seems that BF3 does have more realistic features but it just aint as fun. The worst thing ever is how they touted the BF3 graphics to be super amazing and all this, but whenever you start playing the game, you notice right off that BF3 does not have that silky smooth gameplay that MW3 has. Come to find out, they made BF3 to be 30 FPS while MW3 is 60 FPS. I noticed this right off the bat and was very dissapointed and I confirmed this by looking online just to make sure. Apparently, the PC version does do 60 FPS but the Xbox and PS3 versions do not. Cmon, BF3, if you are gonna do something, go all out for gosh sakes.