29MP Security camera that has an EF mount! :)

not sure if this has been posted yet. if its a dup, admins, please feel free to delete. Danke Schoen!

http://gizmodo.com …lea-breaking-and-entering

you will need a security camera covering this security camera

Kirill wrote in post #15084495
you will need a security camera covering this security camera

No kidding! Let me put a 50 1.2 L on this sucker.

Just about to install a few of these bad boys around work with 70-200mm 2.8 on them. They are the goods.

hey Damien, where do you work?

Damien Jay wrote in post #15085259
Just about to install a few of these bad boys around work with 70-200mm 2.8 on them. They are the goods.

-MasterChief- wrote in post #15085347
hey Damien, where do you work?

SugarZ Cabaret buwhahaha

Damien Jay wrote in post #15085259
Just about to install a few of these bad boys around work with 70-200mm 2.8 on them. They are the goods.

Why would a security camera need a telephoto lens, unless it was specifically positioned to stare at a particular spot some distance away?

I would have thought a UWA or fisheye would be more useful, to provide more coverage.

-MasterChief- wrote in post #15084221
not sure if this has been posted yet. if its a dup, admins, please feel free to delete. Danke Schoen!

http://gizmodo.com …lea-breaking-and-entering

hopefully some businesses will use this so we can see better crime videos on the news

I've always wondered why security cameras have such low resolution when every laptop has an HD webcam built into the lid and every phone has a 5MP+ camera built in.

Shadowblade wrote in post #15097554
Why would a security camera need a telephoto lens, unless it was specifically positioned to stare at a particular spot some distance away?

This. As well as having a few with a WA lens for more coverage.

-MasterChief- wrote in post #15085347
hey Damien, where do you work?

At a university.

mike_d wrote in post #15119417
I've always wondered why security cameras have such low resolution when every laptop has an HD webcam built into the lid and every phone has a 5MP+ camera built in.

I suppose replacement cost is a factor

mike_d wrote in post #15119417
I've always wondered why security cameras have such low resolution when every laptop has an HD webcam built into the lid and every phone has a 5MP+ camera built in.

Take a look at an average, real world situation: 4 security cameras and a 1 month retention policy for the video footage so that the footage is available for later review.

30 days times 24 hours/day is 720, times 4 cameras for a total of 2880 hours of footage. That's a big bunch of disk space even if you are only storing at 720p, let alone 1080 or the kind of feed that a 29MP camera can deliver.

It is common to place cameras high enough that they are not noticeable and not as easily disabled. Doing this with a wide angle lens is okay if it is actively being monitored but if the camera is doing something like recording people using a doorway for later review then a wide angle lens just won't get the job done. Not without some of that special "CSI" image enhancement software, at any rate.