Need help with camera in small booth

[sonicp 0]

I am working on a system at a gas station that has a small booth that the clerk is in.

The camera already in it is very blurry.

It could be a bad camera but I assume it's because it has the wrong lens type? (I assume this because I was told that it was a replacement camera bought from another store where it worked just fine, I assume at a longer distance)

 

The camera is about 6 feet or less from the area that I need to have focus on.

The camera is a Sony Super HAD CCD Color Video Camera GN258.

 

 

I'm assuming it's because this camera is for coverage of a much larger area/distance and can't/won't focus in on such a short distance?

 

How would I go about choosing a camera that focuses in on a much shorter distance?

 

I assume that any camera that has the same type of plugin on the back will work I just need the type that focuses in on a much smaller distance?

 

Any help on this is much appreciated, I tried googling this up but the information gets really technical really fast with most concentrating on longer distances and how to get those to focus rather than the problem I am having here.

 

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this.

[sonicp 0]

hmmm no one knows? I really need to buy a camera, guess I better look elsewhere?

[Kawboy12R 0]

 

Does the lens have any way to focus it?

 

Does it look like the lens and camera in this link? If so, you can just turn the knobs and set the lens length for the proper field of view and then focus the camera.

 

[sonicp 0]

 

I think it's the same camera but with a different lens you can see a picture of it in the first picture (I hope these post)

 

I didn't take these pictures for this purpose I was trying to get the picture of the connections on the back and the cable but in the first photo you can see the camera in the background and sort of see the lens

 

Hope these post

 

Thanks for the quick reply

 

PS I didn't see an obvious way to focus it or I would have tried that. If there was a way it wasn't obvious to me.

 

 

 

 

 

[Kawboy12R 0]

Click on the "manual" tab in the link I sent you and look for the section on back focus.

[sonicp 0]

 

thank you very much I will try that tommorow, very helpful

 

I will let you know how it works out even if I don't still need a new camera...

 

[sonicp 0]

I was able to get the camera to focus, I had to unscrew the lens, then put a rubber band around the threads to keep it from screwing all the way in which allowed me to focus it

 

Thanks for the help