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Surveillance [Chat]

ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
edited July 2013 in Debate and/or Discourse
Types of Surveillance Cameras:

Box:

box_camera.jpg

What most people think of when they think of cameras. It's strengths tended to be from better electronics and more space. But improvements to CMOS technologies have started rendering it moot. Now it's strengths are the ability to swap lenses and that you can use many housings with it.

DOME.jpg

The dome camera. The above one is pretty crappy but the quality gap between it and a box camera has dropped. It's strengths tend to be vandal resistance. It's not going to stop a bullet or a big enough sledge hammer but if you get close enough to use a big enough sledge hammer then I'm gonna have a great shot of you.

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Bullets. Cheap, already in a housing, generally with a non-varifocal lens. This one has integrated IR which is pretty common for bullets.

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PTZ Cameras. Pan Tilt and Zoom. They are amazing with a human operator. Expensive paperweights without them. Their cost is high because even the cheap ones tend to have really good optics.

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Thermal. Expensive as hell. Limited resolution. But for when you just have to be able to spot a human being a mile away at night, there is no other real option.

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Covert:
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Generally cheap and crappy. Often look like smoke detectors which is silly because that tends to piss off fire marshals.

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    Vanguard wrote: »
    http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/nyc/hipster

    Next time someone calls me a hipster I will refer them to this map

    I do not live in the red area

    I just live next to the red area

    you've probably never heard of it

    -Deebaser
    -syndalis

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    TehSloth wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/nyc/hipster

    Next time someone calls me a hipster I will refer them to this map

    I do not live in the red area

    I just live next to the red area

    you've probably never heard of it

    -Deebaser
    -syndalis

    My friends gonna be disappointed, the place we stayed is now officially the unhipstery part of williamsburg.

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    there comes a point where she might just intentionally bomb roommate interviews and stuff just so you don't kick her out though

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    TehSloth wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/nyc/hipster

    Next time someone calls me a hipster I will refer them to this map

    I do not live in the red area

    I just live next to the red area

    you've probably never heard of it

    -Deebaser
    -syndalis

    My friends gonna be disappointed, the place we stayed is now officially the unhipstery part of williamsburg.

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  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    there comes a point where she might just intentionally bomb roommate interviews and stuff just so you don't kick her out though

    I only gave her a month's notice on Sunday. I believe come Thursday the First of August I have the right to chuck her stuff into the street. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.

    Not your problem if it does.

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