Customer Reviews

Sony SNC-RZ25N MPEG-4/JPEG Network Camera with PTZ Capability, 18x Zoom

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Pros

Pretty good image quality, although it has more jagged edges than I'd like to see for this price camera

Responsive pan/tilt/zoom

Good night image

Flipped images stay flipped (for when you have the camera on a desktop rather than hanging upside down) when FTP'd (my Toshiba IK-WB21A does not ftp flipped images, so if you have that camera on a desk instead of upside down, all images that are FTPd to an external server will be upside down).

Ability to customize own webpage on the camera (but also a con because no information on how to get camera info into your own webpage)

Cons

This thing is HUGE. It's about 4x the size of my Toshiba IK-WB21A.

Does not come with a power supply. Luckily I had a 24 volt transformer on hand, so I was able to fire the thing up. You can use either 24V AC or 12V DC.

The IP setup utility was very buggy. Kept saying that it lost connection when I told it to reboot, so had a hard time rebooting the camera with the new IP address. Once set, web based setup went smoothly.

Can't change the default power-up position. Also can't limit pan/tilt range.

No captions for FTPed images.

Documentation is pretty lame. No information on how to get camera image or pan/tilt control outside of the built in webserver. Also having trouble googling info on this camera.

I was using a D-Link PTZ camera and was dissapointed with the quality and reliabilty. I did a lot of research and choose this camera. It has not let me down since I purchased it in Nov 2006. No lockups freezes or operational problems. The motion detection and web access controls are first rate compared to the D-link system. The only thing I would give a lower rating is the motion detection. It could be more reliable under low lux conditions.