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Offers a flexible lens for various job requirements and superb picture quality.
Allows for fine-tuning of the camera's image.
Deactivates IR during daylight to save energy.
Enables rotation for versatile ceiling and wall mounting.
Provides durability and protection for the camera.
Allows OSD menu control via the coaxial cable using a REM088 controller.
Configuration options for various shooting environments like AUTO, INDOOR, OUTDOOR, BACKLIGHT, ITS, CUSTOM.
Settings for ATW, PUSH, USER1, USER2, MANUAL, and HLC/BLC modes.
Controls for AUTO/DAY/NIGHT modes, including burst, signal, and delay settings.
Settings for IR LED mode, level, area, and shade compensation.
Allows setting up to 15 privacy mask areas with display and position options.
Configuration for motion detection sense, interval, block, and area settings.
Settings for synchronization mode and lens type (DC/Video, manual/auto iris).
Options to flip the video image horizontally, vertically, or both.
Configuration for communication protocols, address, baudrate, data bit, parity, and stop bit.
Option to name the camera or edit the camera name.
Features for pixel management, registration, and camera reset.
Details the BNC socket, DC socket, and RS485 connectors for camera setup.
Lists technical details including image sensor, DSP, resolution, lens, illumination, and dimensions.
The CAM086U is a versatile CCTV camera designed for both external and internal use, offering robust performance and value. Its popular eyeball design provides a flexible 2.8-12mm varifocal lens, making it suitable for a wide range of surveillance applications while delivering superb picture quality. The camera is available in multiple color choices to seamlessly blend with various environments.
The CAM086U camera is engineered to capture high-quality video footage with a focus on adaptability and clarity. It features a 2.8-12mm 2-megapixel varifocal lens, allowing users to adjust the focal length to achieve the desired field of view, from wide-angle to zoomed-in shots. This flexibility is enhanced by simple zoom and focus adjustments, which can be fine-tuned even from a ladder, ensuring optimal image clarity for any installation.
For low-light conditions, the camera incorporates a separate IR LED array that provides additional illumination at night, ensuring continuous surveillance. A built-in photocell automatically deactivates the IR LEDs during daylight hours to save energy. To prevent internal IR reflection, the camera features a separate glass pane, maintaining image integrity.
The camera supports Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), which is particularly beneficial in retail environments or other settings where the camera faces brightly lit displays or windows. WDR helps to balance exposure in scenes with both very bright and very dark areas, ensuring details are visible across the entire image.
The CAM086U also includes advanced image processing features such as Digital Zoom, Privacy Masking, and Motion Detect. Digital zoom allows for closer inspection of specific areas within the frame, while privacy masking enables users to block out sensitive areas from being recorded, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Motion detection alerts users to activity within designated zones, enhancing security monitoring.
The CAM086U is designed for ease of installation and operation. Its 3D "Eyeball" Rotation mechanism allows for 360° rotation left to right and 90° rotation up and down, providing extensive flexibility for both ceiling and wall mounting. This smooth eyeball design simplifies adjustment during installation, ensuring the camera can be precisely aimed to cover the desired area.
The camera's tough metal case provides anti-vandal protection, making it suitable for deployment in various environments where durability is crucial. For installations requiring more space for wiring, an optional deeper base (CAM089) is available, offering extra room and simplifying the wiring process.
Control over the camera's settings is facilitated through an On-Screen Display (OSD) menu, which can be accessed and managed via the CO-AX OSD control. This feature allows users to configure various camera parameters directly through the coaxial cable, often using an in-line controller like the REM088, which enables adjustments while next to the DVR. This method streamlines the setup process, eliminating the need for direct physical access to the camera for configuration changes.
The OSD menu offers a comprehensive range of settings, including scene selection (Full Auto, Indoor, Outdoor, Backlight, ITS, Custom), shutter and AGC (Automatic Gain Control) adjustments, and white balance options (ATW, Push, User, Manual). Users can fine-tune parameters such as AE level, AGC max, shutter speed, and gain to optimize image quality for specific lighting conditions.
Further usage features include HLC/BLC (High Light Compensation/Backlight Compensation) to manage challenging lighting, ATR-EX for adaptive tone reproduction, and DNR (Digital Noise Reduction) for cleaner images, especially in low light. The Day/Night mode can be set to auto, day, or night, with options for burst control and signal sensitivity.
The CAM086U incorporates several features to ensure long-term performance and ease of maintenance. The separate glass for the IR LEDs helps prevent internal reflection, which can degrade image quality, thus reducing the need for frequent cleaning or adjustments related to IR interference.
The OSD menu provides access to advanced image adjustment settings, including anti-CR (anti-color rolling), picture adjustments (brightness, contrast, sharpness, hue, color gain), and E-zoom controls (magnification, pan, tilt). These settings allow for precise calibration and fine-tuning over time to maintain optimal image quality.
For system integrity, the camera offers DIS (Digital Image Stabilization) to reduce the effects of camera shake. Privacy masking and motion detection settings can be configured and adjusted as surveillance needs evolve.
The camera's system settings include sync mode, lens type (DC/Video, Auto/Open/Close), flip options (Off, Vertical, Horizontal, Horizontal/Vertical), and LCD/CRT output selection. Communication settings allow for configuration of protocol (Pelco-D), address, baud rate, data bit, parity, and stop bit, facilitating integration into existing surveillance systems and remote control.
A camera ID can be set and edited, which is useful for identifying individual cameras within a larger network. The OSD menu also supports multiple languages (English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, French, Chinese, Japanese) for broader accessibility.
Firmware version information is available, and the maintenance section includes "In Pix Mask" (pixel management) for addressing dead pixels. This feature allows for manual registration of dead pixels, with options to set cursor color, blink status, and display registration numbers, or to use an auto mode for pixel management. Finally, the OSD menu provides options to save, not save, or cancel changes, and to perform a camera reset, allowing for easy restoration of default settings if needed.
General| Viewing Angle | 90° |
|---|---|
| Weather Resistance | IP66 |
| Lens | 3.6mm |
| Power Supply | 12V DC |
| Operating Temperature | -20°C to 50°C |
| Storage | MicroSD card (up to 128GB) |
| Resolution | 1920x1080 (Full HD) |
