Avigilon Real Time Exposure And Gain

Author: Derek Ward, Published on Feb 24, 2015

Knowing how exposure and gain impact image quality, bandwidth, and camera performance can useful in installation and troubleshooting.

Very few cameras readily expose this information, making it difficult or impossible to find for most users.

However, Avigilon includes this information right in the web interface of their cameras, updated in real time.

In this note, we share videos of this feature in action, showing how exposure and gain vary across WDR and adaptive IR scenes.

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