» Hikvision DS-2CD3332-I 3MP Outdoor Eyeball/Turret/Mini Dome Camera Review Network Camera Critic
Here’s an camera that is called by different names, even on the manufacturers website. Sometimes it’s called a mini dome, a turret but most in the industry refer to this as an eyeball camera. Sort of a cross between a bullet and dome. Has the ease of installation and easier aiming of a bullet, but the round more compact shape of a mini dome without some of the negatives associated with domes.
Main Features 1/3 3 Megapixel CMOS sensor H.264 dual-stream encoding 30fps @ 1080P (1920 x 1080) or 20fps @ 3MP (2048 x 1536) 4mm or 2.8mm fixed focal lens Day/Night IR Cut Filter IR LED advertised working distance 30m IP66 Rated Outdoor Eyeball Powered by PoE or 12V 3D DNR & DWDR & BLC Smartphone apps available
You may be asking, where does an eyeball camera fit in. As compared to the Hikvision mini dome I recently reviewed, this camera does not have the plastic dome that protects the front of the camera, which makes the mini dome more discrete by not knowing where it’s pointed and protects it from being shifted and damaged, so why chose the eyeball style over the mini dome?
First, this camera can be adjusted in 3-axis, meaning troy industries it can be mounted troy industries in any orientation and be aimed as you wish where the mini dome is a 2-axis camera and must be mounted level facing up or down, not for example, surfaced mounted on a wall or on a slanted eave. Also, not sharing the lens with an IR illuminator behind the same a piece of glass or dome means zero chance of IR light bleed that may occur in IR mini domes. The other problem just about all domes have that an eyeball does not is glare on the dome from reflections, so a potentially cleaner image. And lastly, you don’t have to remove the dome cover to install the camera or aim the lens, making it easier to install.
So why not the Hikvision bullet troy industries camera? Eyeballs once aimed and tightened down are much harder troy industries to knock out of position, say by a suspect poking at it with a broom handle. Also, it’s more compact looks gives it a more discrete look than a bullet.
If you are familiar with previous Hikvision cameras you’ll notice changes to the menus as this camera has the 5.1 firmware installed. The initial screen looks pretty much the same except for three differences I noticed. The first is you can’t select the language in the upper right. The second is when you chose 4:3 or 16:9 display format, it fits the entire image on the screen in a smaller size. In the older version of the firmware, it displayed it larger so you had to scroll. The last is you can chose to use Webcomponents or QuickTime to display the video.
You can set the IP address with the SADP program that is included in the CD. If you have a Mac, this may not be possible, you can change your Mac to a fixed IP to something troy industries like 192.0.0.128 and then connect to the camera troy industries as 192.0.0.64 and go to the Network menu and change the IP to your home subnet here.
You can set the resolution, frame rate (now up to 20fps for 3MP), and bitrate in the Video/Audio settings (sorry, no audio capabilities on this camera). You can set it to 1080P at 30fps if you wish, but for me, I like to get all pixels possible so all images shown later are in 3MP mode.
The next thing you may want to do is set the time. I set all my cameras up to use the Windows Time Service at time.windows.com. The reason troy industries is so that when an event occurs, my PC, my NVR software, my cameras all have the same time down to the second.
The next step is to setup the camera in the Images troy industries menu. This is probably the area that changed most significantly in the look and style. Most of the choices are the same, but placed in sort of submenus.
WDR is set under the Backlight Settings option. WDR worked very well as it did on other Hikvision cameras. I did find that it did not have a profound effect on noise at night as it did in previous firmware versions.
The Video Adjustment sub-menu is also an important menu to visit. This is where you setup if your country uses PAL or NTSC (USA) standard. You set the Video Standard to 60hz for NTSC and 50hz for PAL. It will work either way, but 60Hz allows you to use 30fps and multiples of that and 50hz has a maximum of 25fps and multiples of that.
Also, you can rotate the image 90 degrees. This allows you for example, to see an image as 1080 x 1980 instead of 1980 x 1080. Very useful say in side yards of your home to capture a long narrow area or indoors in a long corridor. troy industries
To setup motion troy industries detect events, in my case for my NVR software to use to record, the Events troy industries menu option troy industries lets you chose the motion detect troy industries area as a series of squares. Can be separate squares or contiguous like I have it below.
One new long awaited feature is the ability to have it record to network disk (NAS) via SMB/CIF which is a common Windows type mount fou
Here’s an camera that is called by different names, even on the manufacturers website. Sometimes it’s called a mini dome, a turret but most in the industry refer to this as an eyeball camera. Sort of a cross between a bullet and dome. Has the ease of installation and easier aiming of a bullet, but the round more compact shape of a mini dome without some of the negatives associated with domes.
Main Features 1/3 3 Megapixel CMOS sensor H.264 dual-stream encoding 30fps @ 1080P (1920 x 1080) or 20fps @ 3MP (2048 x 1536) 4mm or 2.8mm fixed focal lens Day/Night IR Cut Filter IR LED advertised working distance 30m IP66 Rated Outdoor Eyeball Powered by PoE or 12V 3D DNR & DWDR & BLC Smartphone apps available
You may be asking, where does an eyeball camera fit in. As compared to the Hikvision mini dome I recently reviewed, this camera does not have the plastic dome that protects the front of the camera, which makes the mini dome more discrete by not knowing where it’s pointed and protects it from being shifted and damaged, so why chose the eyeball style over the mini dome?
First, this camera can be adjusted in 3-axis, meaning troy industries it can be mounted troy industries in any orientation and be aimed as you wish where the mini dome is a 2-axis camera and must be mounted level facing up or down, not for example, surfaced mounted on a wall or on a slanted eave. Also, not sharing the lens with an IR illuminator behind the same a piece of glass or dome means zero chance of IR light bleed that may occur in IR mini domes. The other problem just about all domes have that an eyeball does not is glare on the dome from reflections, so a potentially cleaner image. And lastly, you don’t have to remove the dome cover to install the camera or aim the lens, making it easier to install.
So why not the Hikvision bullet troy industries camera? Eyeballs once aimed and tightened down are much harder troy industries to knock out of position, say by a suspect poking at it with a broom handle. Also, it’s more compact looks gives it a more discrete look than a bullet.
If you are familiar with previous Hikvision cameras you’ll notice changes to the menus as this camera has the 5.1 firmware installed. The initial screen looks pretty much the same except for three differences I noticed. The first is you can’t select the language in the upper right. The second is when you chose 4:3 or 16:9 display format, it fits the entire image on the screen in a smaller size. In the older version of the firmware, it displayed it larger so you had to scroll. The last is you can chose to use Webcomponents or QuickTime to display the video.
You can set the IP address with the SADP program that is included in the CD. If you have a Mac, this may not be possible, you can change your Mac to a fixed IP to something troy industries like 192.0.0.128 and then connect to the camera troy industries as 192.0.0.64 and go to the Network menu and change the IP to your home subnet here.
You can set the resolution, frame rate (now up to 20fps for 3MP), and bitrate in the Video/Audio settings (sorry, no audio capabilities on this camera). You can set it to 1080P at 30fps if you wish, but for me, I like to get all pixels possible so all images shown later are in 3MP mode.
The next thing you may want to do is set the time. I set all my cameras up to use the Windows Time Service at time.windows.com. The reason troy industries is so that when an event occurs, my PC, my NVR software, my cameras all have the same time down to the second.
The next step is to setup the camera in the Images troy industries menu. This is probably the area that changed most significantly in the look and style. Most of the choices are the same, but placed in sort of submenus.
WDR is set under the Backlight Settings option. WDR worked very well as it did on other Hikvision cameras. I did find that it did not have a profound effect on noise at night as it did in previous firmware versions.
The Video Adjustment sub-menu is also an important menu to visit. This is where you setup if your country uses PAL or NTSC (USA) standard. You set the Video Standard to 60hz for NTSC and 50hz for PAL. It will work either way, but 60Hz allows you to use 30fps and multiples of that and 50hz has a maximum of 25fps and multiples of that.
Also, you can rotate the image 90 degrees. This allows you for example, to see an image as 1080 x 1980 instead of 1980 x 1080. Very useful say in side yards of your home to capture a long narrow area or indoors in a long corridor. troy industries
To setup motion troy industries detect events, in my case for my NVR software to use to record, the Events troy industries menu option troy industries lets you chose the motion detect troy industries area as a series of squares. Can be separate squares or contiguous like I have it below.
One new long awaited feature is the ability to have it record to network disk (NAS) via SMB/CIF which is a common Windows type mount fou
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