Testing Arecont's WDR Camera (AV3116DN)

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Ethan Ace
•Published Feb 07, 2013 05:00 AM

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Comments (7)
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Brian Karas
•Feb 08, 2013
Pelican Zero

I'm surprised to even hear you mention about binning. I thought that fallback had pretty much died out in any new cameras.

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Ethan Ace
•Feb 08, 2013

Brian, opinions are mixed on binning. I would say that producing any image, even if it's only detection level, is better than pitch black, though.

JE
Jim Elder
•Feb 13, 2013
IPVMU Certified

John. What is the hair color of the test subject holding the Eye Test card. The Q 1604 color is significantly different from the others. If i were looking to ID the subject in the Axis view, i would think his hair and beard are black.

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Ethan Ace
•Feb 13, 2013

Jim, in these photos, Arecont is closest to my actual hair color, which is red, but more like auburn and less like Carrot Top.

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Undisclosed
•Mar 28, 2013

John, we just discovered (the hard way) that unlike their earlier cameras, this series annoyingly only supports two specific lenses - both wide-angle. This makes the camera much less useful than the older ones that accept nearly any CS format lens.

This limitation is something Arecont really should make much more obvious on their website - you click on the bold lens link on the left-hand side, you see a great many lenses:

http://www.arecontvision.com/product/MegaVideo%C2%AE+Compact+Series/AV3116DN

Only if you click on the greyed-out lens link under the camera image do you see the limited options.

JP
Jason Pfau
•Feb 04, 2014
IPVMU Certified

I'm curious, why is Axis included in this comparison with a 1.3 MP camera while the others are at 3 and 2 MP comparatively.

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John Honovich
•Feb 05, 2014
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In reply to Jason Pfau

Because Axis does not have a true WDR at 2MP or 3MP so they are limited to the WDR offering they have.