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List Price: $299.00
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Manufacturer: Panasonic
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Product Description
What happens when you're not around? Life is precious and valuable. View the things you value when away from home or when you're at another room in your home. View your property, your pets, even your children. You can even listen in! You can add extra eyes (through your computer) by adding the Panasonic BL-C131A Wireless Network Camera. It works with 802.11g wireless technology and it lets you monitor its "view" (what its lens sees) from virtually anywhere. Just log on a specially designated Internet site using a PC and instantly access camera images. You can even control the BL-C131a using your web browser to move the camera's pointing direction and modify its digital zoom to bring objects of interest into close view. Place this plug-and-play camera in your home, office, vacation home, or almost anywhere else you'd like to keep an eye on things, with no PC required at the location. Check your property, check your children, check your babysitter - from any location using your PC or an Internet equipped cell-phone or PDA. And the camera can be easily hidden from view. 1 Lux Color Night View Mode Simple plug&play mode Built-in Microphone - listen as well as view Privacy Mode- Privacy mode can be controlled remotely using your administrator password Camera can be set to automatically record video at certain times and certain speeds With optional, external sensors attached to the camera, it's possible for the camera to email5 or record when triggered by motion, sound, light, timer, or even a push button Compression Format JPEG (3 levels), MPEG4 Picture Sizes - 640 x 480, 320 x 240 (default), 192 x 144 Frame Rate (speed) - Max. 30 FPS (640 x 480, 320 x 240, 192 x 144) Integrated F2.8 fixed-focus lens - set for 20 to infinity Panasonic 1 Year Warranty Connecting the camera to the Internet requires Internet access and may require that you obtain additional hardware such as a cable or DSL modem,
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Features
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 Connect wirelessly with standard 802.11b/g devices, SSID filtering and 40/64/128-bit WEP encryption
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Customer Review(s)
Customer Rating: Summary: Simple, Easy, and worth every penny Comment: The Panasonic cameras (we bought 3 - 2 for indoors and 1 outside) are exceptional in both quality and ease of setup. I read many reviews of people having issues setting up the wireless connection, but I found it to be very simple after discovering the keys to it - My NetGear wireless N router is set in B/G mode and you must set the cameras to B/G as well or they will not connect. Also, even though it tells you to turn the camera off and unplug the wired connection, DON'T, just flip the switch and then pull the cable. Works like a charm and connects every time thereafter.
Setting them up for outside access via Comcast was a breeze - admittedly I am a network engineer so I have done this for a living for 15 years, but even for me this was easy. The sound quality and image quality are both exactly what I expected (The sound is actually MUCH better than expected - I can hear the dog door in the basement from the camera on the second floor). For all those who said the image quality was poor - what did you really expect? It is not like these are HD cameras...
Bandwidth usage did not seem to be horrible - my wife and I were both watching the cameras at the same time with only the expected transmission delay and no choppiness or unresponsiveness from the cameras or the display page. Zooming is a little funky - my wife finally discovered that what the zoom directions are trying to say is that you hold down the right mouse button AND use the scroll wheel to zoom. However I could not see her zoomed in picture while watching - not that it is a big deal, but just something to be aware of.
I will definitely be adding to my camera setup, the multi-camera support is embedded into the cameras themselves so you only need to set up one to see all of them which is a nice feature for sure. I did not care about recording since this is more for real-time monitoring of kids and pets, but there are many simple and free recording software packages available that would simply integrate with these cameras.
In short the price premium is definitely there, but the product more than backs it up by delivering great usability and performance with simple and hassle-free setup to boot. A great camera system overall. Customer Rating:  Summary: Great product, is looking to purchase another one. Comment: I read tons of review before I purchased this camera. I even looked at the linksys and D-link. At last, thank you for all the wonderful review on Amazon, I decided on the Panasonic. I've had it for 8 weeks, and it's been working great. No problem, and technical support help me through the whole setup. I bought this mainly to watch my son and nanny while at work. I can pan, tilt, and take pictures. It's a wonderful product. The only negative I would have is the resolution when you zoom in. It's not as clear, yet, for my purpose, it does the job. I'm happy with the camera so far.
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