Testing Avigilon's H3 WDR Camera

•Published Feb 14, 2013 05:00 AM

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Comments (1)

John Honovich

•Feb 15, 2013

IPVM

On the low light image quality of Avigilon (camera) in Avigilon (VMS), I have seen the same phenomenon with using 3rd party cameras with Avigilon's VMS. A few years ago, I was testing an Axis camera in Avigilon ACC and noticed the same surprising improvements for the Axis camera when displayed in Avigilon in low light. Either way, it's impressive but probably more so if it makes other manufacturer camera's image quality better.