International CCTV magazine

• About lenses in CCTV

  About lenses in CCTV
  (by Vlado Damjanovski © 2008)
  A system of any kind will perform as good as the weakest link in such a system.
  The traffic flow is as fast as the slowest car in the lane.
  The water flow in a system will be limited by the narrowest pipe in such a system. 
  This is exactly how […]

  Posted on Mar 03.08 to Lenses   

• Web Site for the Development of Australian CCTV Standards

  Recently Les Simmonds (Chairman of the Standards Australia Non Broadcast Television Committee) and Vlado Damjanovski (Chairman of the Standards Australia CCTV Sub Committee) toured Australia together conducting CCTV Awareness Seminars for Standards Australia/SAI Global.The main aim of these seminars was to help make the attendees aware of the current CCTV standards in detail. The CCTV […]

  Posted on Nov 16.07 to industry news, Uncategorized   

• Psychophysiology of viewing CCTV

  Very often, in CCTV, monitors have not been considered seriously. The display quality and monitor size are, sadly, chosen based on their price and physical size to fit a pre-determined area. It is quite clear though, that if the monitors are not up to the same level, or better, quality than the images displayed on […]

  Posted on Nov 10.07 to Viewing quality   

• Dynamic range of solid state imaging devices

  If you are like me, and do a little bit of photography in your spare time, I am sure that by now you would have some digital camera.
  If you are a more demanding photographer, a digital SLR would be what you must have.
  In the last few years we have completely replaced film photography with digital. […]

  Posted on Sep 30.07 to CMOS, Cameras, CCD   

• Video or Image compression ?

  So many times I have been asked a question that says a lot about the current state of the industry:
  What is the file size of the MPEG compression used by so-and-so DVR?
  Well, there is no such thing as file size when talking about Video Compression.
  Video compressions are all compressions that use time as one […]

  Posted on Sep 17.07 to Compression   

• A new focus on CCTV

  First off, a big welcome to the new CCTVfocus site.
  We’ll be keeping the old site running parallel for a while at cctv-focus.com if you should need to download any of the old articles.
  As you may know, we are no longer a printed magazine, and so we have decided to enter the world of “web 2.0″ […]

  Posted on Sep 16.07 to industry news, welcome, CCTVfocus