New member looking for advice about camera to record lcd displays

[Angel RG]

Hi to everyone!

I am new to the forum, I ended up here searching for a ip camera for a very non-standard setup.

At work we have a bunch of computers with small 7" screens in a server room. I have setup a camera to view the screens (8 of them) from my desk. I used an Axis camera that was lying around, but the problem is that I hardly can see the content of the screens. I have the camera positioned about 50cm from the screens.

Should I look at any particular sensor that would be good for this light contrast?

Any tips are highly apreciated.

Also my budget is not high (probably a couple of hundred €)

Thanks a lot!

 

[SouthernYankee]

Welcome to the forum.

Please read the cliff notes and other items in the wiki. The wiki is in the blue bar at the top of the page.

Read,study,plan before spending money ..... plan plan plan

Sorry can not help with ypur direct question.

 

[bp2008]

If you need to do this with a fixed camera (e.g. to record all the screens at the same time) then I'd suggest picking an 8 megapixel Dahua cam. One with a varifocal lens would cost more but would help you optimize the field of view without having to move the camera as much. A fixed-lens 8MP should be obtainable for $150 or less through @EMPIRETECANDY

If this is just to occasionally check on something (e.g. read a crash dump message) then I would suggest a small indoor PTZ camera with some optical zoom (3x or 4x). This should deliver much better readability once zoomed in on a particular screen.

http://amzn.com/B07F3Q3W2H
http://amzn.com/B074J8NJY2

 

[Angel RG]

Thanks a lot for the tips! I will look into those sugestions