Panasonic Video Surveillance Cameras

[10.8 VDC] Work perfectly and great to have for continuing video surveillance.

[14-Bit] With all the great cameras released in 2020, I stuck with Panasonic for these reasons. FYI: I rack focus and don't rely on auto-focus, this has improved over the GH5 but AF doesn't compare to Sony or Canon camera. (Not in order) 1. Price & footage. Nothing comes close at this price range to achieve the photos/video quality. 2. Their Menu is user friendly so I can focus on shooting, instead of figuring out where that setting is to change something. 3. The Image Stabilization, nothing comes close yet. I've found myself not using my gimble. 4. I can use this as a B camera on film sets. You can load LUTS (works perfect with Pansonic cinema cameras), Anamorphic video, V-log, V-Gamet, 4k RAW, Vector scopes, etc. 5. The Timelapse mode: Avoid Flicker, Timelapse video in S&Q mode, resolution, low light, etc. 6. Lowlight shooting, Sony is still king but Panasonic is a formattable opponent. 7. S&G mode, I can easily switch the dial to slow or fast mode for B roll footage, etc. There is a crop but I usually cut to a close-up in slow-mo so it's not a problem for me.

[0.055 lb] We needed for of these for our Panasonic GH5 cameras. We do video projects that are either recorded live or streamed. I tend to work as a one man band a lot so it I have 3 - 4 cameras set up I don't want to be running around changing batteries. This worked out well. One draw back is a little extra time on set up and tear down. Another possible drawback is that I don't know if have them plugged into the cameras for extremely long periods of time might damage the camera? So far they have worked with an hour or 2 at a time, but if it were to be 8 hours - not sure if that would be bad for the cameras.

[200' / 61 m] The new G9II is a terrific upgrade in terms of better image quality, low-light noise handling and reliability of focusing thanks to both the new, better 25MB 4/3rds sensor, as well as finally incorporating a solid phase detect auto focus system. The color accuracy of the camera is excellent, and the menu system is still intuitive and straight-forward, if you have owned any of Panasonic's other hybrid cameras. I primarily do 90 percent photography (landscape, architecture, wildlife, air shows and boat races) and 10 percent video, so I think Panasonic positioned this camera well for those focused on stills photography with some video needs. I've been testing the various features of the camera for about a month now and I have to say that the implementation of focus bracketing makes good sense, as I do a reasonable amount of macro and just being able to drop the raw files into Helicon produces a far better final image output than most cameras can do internally with more flexibility. It also frees up camera memory and computational power for additional add-on functionality down the road. It should be noted that operating manual for this camera is 832 pages in length and I encourage you to download the pdf. That is because of literally all the functionality and flexibility that has been built into this hybrid camera. It truly is a highly customizable hybrid camera.

We needed for of these for our Panasonic GH5 cameras. We do video projects that are either recorded live or streamed. I tend to work as a one man band a lot so it I have 3 - 4 cameras set up I don't want to be running around changing batteries. This worked out well. One draw back is a little extra time on set up and tear down. Another possible drawback is that I don't know if have them plugged into the cameras for extremely long periods of time might damage the camera? So far they have worked with an hour or 2 at a time, but if it were to be 8 hours - not sure if that would be bad for the cameras.

[0.45 lb] Use it for four Surveillance Network Video Recorder. works good and very easy to operate.

[50 Devices] There are lots of free applications for IP Cameras, but if you're serious about IP Surveillance you can't do better than Axis Camera Station, and the best way to acquire the licenses is from B&H.

[10 Gb/s ] I wanted to set up some surveillance cameras that required PoE, and this switch required little technical knowledge and worked right away!

[Clamp] On a whim, I thought I'd try using this to hold my tablets on my desk while working and watching news and surveillance cameras. Put on mini, adjustable tripods which allows me to add more devices on already cluttered desktop without adding too much footprint.

[1 x 100 W] We have purchased two of these so far to use primarily as NVRs for a large number of IP cameras on a school campus. Licensing costs aside, Synology Surveillance Station does a really nice job making it easy to set up and scale with the number of cameras you have. We linked two together, making one the primary and the other a secondary target for recordings. Surveillance Station records direct-to-disk, and does a decent job of adjusting camera settings directly using ONVIF. We have about 50+ cameras running at resolutions from 1280x720 up to 2560x1600, some PTZ, some ceiling-mount fisheyes, mostly wide angle fixed, and everything works pretty well. We were even able to use the manual camera configuration to use some uncommon double-lens cameras. With about 26 cameras assigned to each RS422+, we see about 20-25% CPU on each on average during a typical day. We can comfortably handle 32 per unit, and supposedly up to 40 if needed. With x4 6TB drives in each set in SHR-1 (equivalent to RAID5) we have about a month or so of footage retention. The licensing is a little pricey at $50 per camera (unless you buy in bulk from some european IP camera shops...), but it is perpetual and I think worth the expense. Using two of these units, 8 cheap drives from eBay (luckily these do not suffer from the Synology whitelist) and a bunch of camera licenses, for around under $5000 I was able to build and set up a really easy to use and reliable NVR system with plenty of future expandability. 2-3 users are regularly connected on their desktops without issue.