FAQ

What are the various Video/Exposure Controls?

What are the various Video/Exposure Controls?

There are a large number of video and exposure controls available on network ip 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.
Many IP Network cameras have all of these features, please check on the detailed descriptions.