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Just fidled around with my ATi drivers, and upon a new restart picture is back, so it looks like it wasn't a geovision issue, but an ATi issue.

Rory: Screen resolution hasn't changed, but it was waking it up from sleep mode. I have restarted the system, including from full power off (unplugged) and problem is still there on displaying the live camera views. Andy: Using version 8.11 and no screen saver function (monitor goes into hibernate mode though) System has been recording fine though, still only problem is the live vue is displayng blank cameras.

I have had this geo 1480 system running fine for the last 7 months, but some time in the last week it stopped displaying the camera views (system is dedicated just for this, and last time i "woke" it up was last week and it displayed fine then.) System still records, and does playback fine, but the live view does not display any picture in any of the camera windows. The camera name/number still flashes to indicate motion, just no picture in the windows and it records the motin fine. Any ideas? (nothing should have been changed on the computer, no one touches it, but windows update had been set to automatic.)

Based on a diagram on their website, it seems like ICR2 is composed of 2 filters, 1 a normal IR filter, the 2nd a clear filter, so sensor is always covered by a filter (either an IR one or a clear one.) Purpose seems to be to eliminate the focal shift of the IR range, the clear filter focuses the light to the same position as the IR filter, thus no focus shift. Guess it is similiar to an IR compensated lens, just that with ICR2, you no longer need an IR compensated lens since it takes place in the camera body. here is a product page with description of ICR2 at the bottom. on the cnbtec site, i found it on the product page for G2315NF/G2315PF sorry cant post direct links yet.

Scorpion thanks for your replies. For the lighting source, the shelf is actually outside attached to the door (we have double doors, one is always closed.) Right above, inside the door frame, about 6 feet from the shelf is a flourescent 4 foot light, I thought that would be diffused enough, but it aint. We have a scanner, but tell the truth haven't used it for a while, tested it for about a week 3 years ago, and too many fakes were getting by. The bouncers were depending on it to spot fakes and it wasn't very good at that so we took it out. Basically it was a glorified time clock that read the magnetic strip and calculated age, nice green light and they came in. Unfortunately it didn't do anything but check that, obvious mistakes in license numbers got a green light. Speed isn't an issue, everyone gets wristbanded, so while putting on the wristband, the id is left on the shelf, so it is there for a good 2-3 seconds. The face recognition software sounds nice, but probably way past our needs. Thanks for that polarizing filter suggestion, hadn't thought of that at all. I'll try and jury rig a circular polarizer over the lens, that may do the trick.

I had found a box thing called eye-d cam, but its limited to only the size of drivers licenses (we get a lot of foreign passports, so I kind of need to stick to the shelf system) and I am still not sure that box would address the problem of the holograms/state seals.

I work in a bar where all id's are placed on a shelf that has a cctv camera with telephoto aimed at it. System has worked ok for the last 9 years but we are running into a new problem with the new drivers licenses. Basically with the new holograms and seals popping up all over an id, about 50% of the id are unreadable on playback now, vs. years ago it was only about 10%. Just talked to a salesperson and he recommended trying a wide dynamic range camera and thought it may help with the issue, but wasn't sure how it would work with holograms. Any one have any experience with this or suggestions?