Every CCTV Camera Type Explained, From the Inside Out

Every type of CCTV camera, taken apart, with the physics that decides what each one can see: bullet, dome, turret, box, PTZ, fisheye, multisensor, multi-directional, thermal, bispectral, plate reader, covert and battery cameras. Why domes fog at night, what C and CS mounts are, why 30x digital zoom shows a face as two pixels while 30x optical zoom shows seventy-five, why a 12 megapixel fisheye only uses about seven, how stitched panoramas double people near the seams, and why a thermal camera can find a person 200 metres away in total darkness but cannot tell you who it is. Every number is sourced below. Made by CCTVplanner, software that simulates what a camera will see before it is installed: https://cctvplanner.io/?utm_source=yo... Chapters 0:00 Thirteen kinds of camera 0:29 Inside every camera 1:10 Pixels per metre (DORI) 1:25 Bullet 1:44 Dome 2:16 Turret 2:26 Box camera, C and CS mount 2:58 PTZ 3:23 Optical vs digital zoom 4:20 Fisheye 5:10 Multisensor and multi-directional 6:03 Thermal 6:42 What thermal can and can't see 7:07 Plate readers 7:29 Covert and battery cameras 7:48 How to choose More from this series: Flock cameras explained    • Flock Cameras: What They Know About Your Car   · Axon's streetlight plate reader    • Flock Cameras vs Axon Lightpost: The Stree...   · Speed camera or not?    • Speed Camera or Not? How to Tell Every Roa...   The animations are illustrations: generic camera shapes drawn from public photographs, not copies of any maker's drawings. The camera views are simulations rendered with each camera's published resolution and field of view; plates are invented. Sources EN 62676-4, pixels per metre for detect, observe, recognise, identify (DORI) Axis, IR reflections in dome cameras: https://whitepapers.axis.com/en/ir-re... IK code, IEC/EN 62262 (IK10 = 20 J, 5 kg from 0.4 m): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IK_code C mount and CS mount flange distances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_mount Axis Q1656 box camera datasheet (CS / i-CS lenses, F0.9 option): https://www.axis.com/products/axis-q1656 Axis Q6155-E PTZ datasheet (4.3-129 mm, F1.6-4.7, 66.7-2.36 degrees, 700 degrees/s, 360 endless): https://www.axis.com/products/axis-q6... i-PRO, slip ring: https://i-pro.com/products_and_soluti... Axis M3058-PLVE fisheye datasheet (12 MP, 1.3 mm, 181 degrees, 2992 x 2992 overview): https://www.axis.com/products/axis-m3... Axis P3818-PVE multisensor datasheet (3 x 5 MP, 180 degrees, 5120 x 2560): https://www.axis.com/products/axis-p3... Axis P3727-PLE multi-directional datasheet (4 x 2 MP): https://www.axis.com/products/axis-p3... US patent 9892488, multi-camera frame stitching (parallax near the camera): https://patents.google.com/patent/US9... US patent 6701030, deghosting panoramic video: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6... Axis Q1961-TE thermal datasheet (384 x 288, 17 micrometres, 8-14 micrometres, NETD 40 mK, detect a person at 200 m): https://www.axis.com/products/axis-q1... Axis, thermometric cameras white paper: https://whitepapers.axis.com/download... Zeiss, thermal imaging technology (glass blocks long-wave infrared): https://www.zeiss.com/consumer-produc... Workswell, germanium lenses: https://workswell.eu/germanium-lens-l... Axis Q8752-E Mk II bispectral PTZ (thermal detection, visual verification): https://www.axis.com/products/axis-q8... Axis Q1800-LE plate camera (7-137 mm, 850 nm IR): https://www.axis.com/products/axis-q1... TP-Link, battery camera wake-up (PIR): https://tp-link.com/uy/support/faq/3599 #CCTV #SecurityCamera #CCTVCamera