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Article: When you need to look good: ... look through a pan-tilt-zoom camera, whose future includes Advancements in IP-capabilities, motion tracking and image stabilization.
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- Security Distributing & Marketing
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- October 1, 2005
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The obvious benefit of a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera is that it allows users more control compared with a fixed camera, such as panning or zooming in on an incident of interest.
"Everybody wants PTZ, but that main thing is the price," says Tae Kim, system administration for KT & C USA, a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of PTZ cameras.
There is an obvious price difference between a fixed camera installation and a PTZ installation. Most manufacturers agree that PTZ is still a technology reserved for more sophisticated applications, and as Ron Go, product manager for PTZ at Honeywell Security, Syosset, N.Y., emphasizes, "PTZ does not fit every application." ...