Hey folks...this seemed like the best place to ask this question.
I am an avid Blue Iris User and have purchased dozens of cameras from lots of manufacturers. I currently have 26 cameras running with varying sizes and capabilities.
My one big beef is with how big and bulky the "Quality" PTZ cameras are these days. Even the "Mini-PTZ's" are still quite large in size and the full size ones are monsters.
Which leads me to my question....at first I thought this was an optics issue. As in, you need a large body to house a good quality zoom lens, plus the motors to handle the Panning and Tilting. But then, I saw this:
It's a drone with a 4K 18X Optical Zoom mounted on a Gimbal and attached to a Drone. The video quality is quite nice and the zoom capability is damned impressive. So clearly, the tech exists to have all of this capability in a very tiny, low-power, form factor. So why are we still dealing with these humongous cameras? I get the fact that they need to run continuous and be weatherproof, however, that all seems like an engineering problem.
Anyway....I just continue to hope that at some point, we will be able to have very small and capable PTZ's that can essentially disappear into the background and still provide quality surveillance features.
Thoughts or input is greatly appreciated!
I am an avid Blue Iris User and have purchased dozens of cameras from lots of manufacturers. I currently have 26 cameras running with varying sizes and capabilities.
My one big beef is with how big and bulky the "Quality" PTZ cameras are these days. Even the "Mini-PTZ's" are still quite large in size and the full size ones are monsters.
Which leads me to my question....at first I thought this was an optics issue. As in, you need a large body to house a good quality zoom lens, plus the motors to handle the Panning and Tilting. But then, I saw this:
It's a drone with a 4K 18X Optical Zoom mounted on a Gimbal and attached to a Drone. The video quality is quite nice and the zoom capability is damned impressive. So clearly, the tech exists to have all of this capability in a very tiny, low-power, form factor. So why are we still dealing with these humongous cameras? I get the fact that they need to run continuous and be weatherproof, however, that all seems like an engineering problem.
Anyway....I just continue to hope that at some point, we will be able to have very small and capable PTZ's that can essentially disappear into the background and still provide quality surveillance features.
Thoughts or input is greatly appreciated!
