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Types of Camera

Box Camera
Box Camera

A box camera is a simple type of camera, the most common form being a cardboard or plastic box with a lens in one end and film at the other. They were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Bullet Camera
Bullet Camera

Bullet Cameras vs. Dome Cameras. Bullet cameras and dome cameras are the most common camera types used for home and business security today. Both are easy to install, manageable, and offer complete control to the user when securing areas of any size.

Camera
Camera

The camera is a remote sensing device as it senses subjects without any contact . The word camera comes from camera obscura, which means "dark chamber" and is the Latin name of the original device for projecting an image of external reality onto a flat surface.

Day/Night Camera
Day/Night Camera

There are basically two options when it comes to day&night cameras. A true day night camera has the ability to automatically switch from color to black and white when the lighting gets below a certain point. A Day night camera can see in very low light conditions without the assistance of infrared illuminators.

Dome Camera
Dome Camera

Bullet cameras and dome cameras are the most common camera types used for home and business security today. Both are easy to install, manageable, and offer complete control to the user when securing areas of any size.

IP Camera
IP Camera

An IP camera is a networked digital video camera that transmits data over a Fast Ethernet link. IP cameras (also called "network cameras") are most often used for IP surveillance, a digitized and networked version of closed-circuit television (CCTV).

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PTZ Camera
PTZ Camera

Winner: PTZ Cameras. Simultaneous Users. Live cameras can either serve streaming video or still images. With streaming video, only one user will be able to control a PTZ camera at any time. Other users will be forced into a queue. With live images, it is possible to avoid queues. With ePTZ, there is never a queue since the camera does not need to move.

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The 20 Most Popular DSLRs Among our Readers
The 20 Most Popular DSLRs Among our Readers

Every few months we like to report back to the dPS community which cameras (and other gear) are most popular with our readers. Today we’re going to take a look at the highest selling DSLRs among our readers over the last 4 months (as ranked by the reports that Amazon gives us*).

Thermal (FLIR) Camera
Thermal (FLIR) Camera

An infrared camera is a non-contact device that detects infrared energy (heat) and converts it into an electronic signal, which is then processed to produce a thermal image or video, on which you can perform temperature calculations.

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