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What are the various Video/Exposure Controls?

here are a large number of video and exposure controls available on CCTV cameras, most of them are acronyms. The most common are:
AES – Automatic Electronic Shutter - the ability of the camera to compensate for moderate light changes by adjusting the camera shutter without the use of auto iris lenses.
AWB – Automatic White Balance – A feature of CCD cameras used to automatically maintain the white balance of the image.
BLC – Back Light Compensation - a feature on CCD cameras which electronically compensates for high background lighting to give detail which would normally be silhouetted
AGC – Automatic Gain Control – Used to control the intensity of the image when light levels change without amplifying ‘noise’ at the same time.
Image Quality – this is used to define the degree of compression in the images, as the quality increases the network transmission also increases.