Dan_Toronto

First, my thanks to forum participants. I've learned a lot from reading your posts. Thanks for taking the time! I'm interested in your opinions on the range of IP cameras available and options for integrating normal analog cameras into network-based systems. This is not my day job, but I just installed a set of Axis 205 and 2100 cameras. The image quality was fair and good respectively. What do people do if they want better performance in an IP system? I know some companies (eg. Axis) offer camera servers in the 800 dollar range. Is this typical? Do they perform well? ______________ Dan

Yes, that was my impression as well. The two axis cameras I worked with seemed to make matters worse through really long exposure times in low-light conditions. My feeling was that I'd rather see a dark image than one too blurry to recognize. But back to my original question: If you were installing a network-based system, how much overhead per camera could you realistically handle in order to use a video server + better quality CCTV cameras? Are products like that vitek video server AVCONSULTING still too expensive to be worthwhile? I'm trying to write a proposal for network cameras for a class I'm taking, but I don't have a concept of what a typical per-camera cost is. As best as I can tell, its ~2000 for your choice of software DVR + capture board with 8 ports and then ~300 per camera to get something halfway-decent. -Dan