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Panasonic BL-C111A Network Camera Wired
List Price: $199.00
Price: $167.55
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| Place anywhere you'd like to keep an eye on things, with no PC required at the location |
| View and control from a standard web browser, video display, or compatible cell phone or PDA |
| Point the camera where you want with eight shooting position presets |
| Built-in heat sensor allows record and/or notify by email when someone enters the room |
| Automatically record video at certain times and certain speeds |
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Customers Reviews
2009-11-02
Good internet camera for the price
The biggest drawback of this product is the setup. If you just want to hook it up and see the video from your home network, it's a cinch. But to configure it for viewing through DDNS, recording, and email alerts took a bit more patience. But once it was all worked out, the camera out performed my expectations. I am now able to view and operate the camera from my cell phone and web browser. Video quality is decent but declines in dim light.
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2009-10-13
Great camera for the money
I have had it a few months now and I am very happy with it. I travel some for business and I wanted to keep tabs on my house and cat while I am away.
The setup just works pretty much out of the box. I didn't use any of their software that came with it. I popped up on my network and I went right into the web interface and set my options. I also have a Micasaverde Vera home controller and it sniffed this camera out right away and was fully compatible with it.
I am not going to get too wordy so here's a few of the PROS:
- The Pan and Tilt are the best feature this camera has over similar competitors. It even has presets if you want to have it go to certain spots.
- It has a PIR sensor to sense people and it can save images by itself based on this trigger. I used this feature some and it seems to work well.
- Motion trigger: It looks for motion in the image and can use that for a trigger. This works better than I have seen on similar cameras.
- Microphone: it needs a plugin to work right on the web which I only tested once but it worked fine.
- The performance and picture quality is the best of other (older) web cameras.
CONS:
- Using it with Safari on the iPod Touch (and presumable iPhone too) doesn't work. I can't seem to log in at all. I never looked into why, perhaps funky javascript or something?
- The tilt seems to be out of wack. I haven't tried to fiddle with it yet but it will roll up high enough that the camera in inside the shell and conversely, it can not look as low as it could before. Not sure if this is a defect or just something that needs adjusting or calibrating.
All in all it is well worth the money and I would (and may!) get another.
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2009-10-09
better than d-link dcs-5300
I have a D-Link dcs-5300 and I just received this Panasonic BL-C111A. For $100 less the Panasonic gives you a better and a better design.
The D-Link has the ability to hook up external audio and it has a video out, but this Panasonic unit let's you control it from Firefox and IE (the D-Link is only good in IE) and the Panasonic has a better design and is way-less choppy.
Overall the Panasonic's camera moves around in the housing, where as the D-Link moves the camera, so if the D-link is balanced somewhere, it likes to fall as it pans.
I haven't played around with Panasonic's alert systems, but the D-Link was impossible to get to work properly.
Unless you need the external audio, save your $100 and get this Panasonic BL-C111A.
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2009-09-27
Adequate for the price
I've installed two of these camera's as a simple surveillance system in my shop. Without installing any software I can use the built in firmware to set up a large variety of options. I have images being captured based on motion detection and sent to an ftp server automatically, but you can also choose detection based on heat or time interval. After signing up for free at viewnetcam.com you can view your cameras anywhere you have Internet access, so I can monitor the shop from my iPhone.
The main drawback is image quality - even set to the maximum settings, 640 x 480 Favor Clarity, the image has too many jpg artifacts. The 640 x 480 would be fine but Panasonic's compression is too aggressive and lowers to quality too much. It's still a very useful product, but be aware of the image quality limitations.
Also, after the initial setup, I haven't had any problems with the system freezing. It does work reliably for me and I might even add more cameras on to my system.
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2009-08-21
Works great! Tricky to setup but not camera's fault.
Overall I'm very pleased with this camera's functionality. The hardest part was getting it to work over the internet but that's mainly configuring my router to allow the camera through. I do think the menu system is a little too complicated for me but after playing around in there for a few hours, you get used to it.
Quality is great. Good view of my living. Now I'm debating on getting the wireless version. :P
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Product Details
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Label: Panasonic
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Model: BL-C111A
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