| | |  | Surveillance | Home » » Panasonic BB-HCM735A POE Outdoor Network Camer | | | | | | | Description: | | PANASONIC CONSUMER OUTDOOR H.264 PAN/POE NETWORK CAMERAOUTDOOR H.264 PAN/POE NETWORK CAMERA Manufacturer : PANASONIC CONSUMER UPC : 037988845620 | | | Features: | |
• Video Compression: JPEG (3 levels), MPEG-4, H.264
• Quality Video Resolution: 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, 320 x 240 (default), 192 x 144
• Image Quality: JPEG (favor clarity, standard, favor motion).
• Frame Rate: Max. 30 frames/second (1280 x 960*3, 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 192 x 144).
• Supported Network Protocols: IPv4 / IPv6 Dual Stack IPv4: TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DHCP, DNS, ARP, ICMP, POP3, NTP, IPsec
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 9.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.75 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 9 reviews |
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13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Good but don't believe it is high resolutionNov 08, 2010
By S. Joyce
I bought this camera because of its support for 1280x960 resolution. The camera may have the sensor for it, but it lacks so much other support, it might as well have not included the function. When you change the camera to support the highest resolution, you see LOTS of configuration options that say:
Note: (1)Cannot be set when [Max. Image Size] is set to 1280x960.
It impacts the streaming, alarms, triggers, .... What a joke. Save your money and get one of the Panasonics that fully support 640x480.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Good camera with cautionsJan 26, 2011
By D. Peterson
I have several less expensive BB series Panasonic cameras and took a chance on this one because I needed higher resolution in one locationto compensate for having to set this camera further away. It definitely has a more detailed image than their 640x480 models.
The only real downside is there are some limitations when using in 1280x960 resolution. You can't set triggers and I had a real fun time trying to come up with the right combination of settings to get it to stream high resolution to my Blue Iris DVR software, but I did finally get it. The downside is it streams continually to my DVR, which for me isn't an issue on my switched LAN, but could be for people trying to use it over low speed connections. I let Blue Iris do motion detection in software to know what to record. Another downside is without triggers there doesn't seem to be any way to get it to record to the 16GB SD card I bought for it. This is easy with their other cameras.
I couldn't get any definitive answer from their tech support as to why they don't support triggers at high res or if they'd be fixing in a firmware upgrade. My guess is the processing power may not be there in the camera to do motion detection with a much bigger data flow, but I don't know.
Since other purchasers of BB series cameras have bitched, I'll point out to the newbies this camera doesn't come with a power supply. You need to use a PoE switch, PoE injector block (<$30) or buy their AC adapter. PoE is the way to go.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Worst Documentation I've Ever SeenAug 31, 2011
By PeteCress
Panasonic's documentation is worse than bad... it's just plain pitiful: the worst I've ever seen anywhere. Sloppy, disorganized, and incomplete.
Having said that...
Prospective buyers should be aware that the higher resolution (1024x960) is problematic if people with browsers other than Internet Explorer are to be viewing it.
I'm a noob cam-wise, so I don't know much - but the term of art for that rez seems tb "h.264".
The problem is that there's some sort of political thing going on between Google and the rest of the world and Google has removed h.264 support from Chrome. Ref: [...] (scroll down to "Controversies").
Bottom Line: If you tell somebody the address of your camera and they're running Chrome they will not be able to view 1024x960. On iPhone/iPod, I can view the camera using an app called LiveCams. Dunno about other browsers.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great potential falls flatJun 27, 2011
By Jose Stevens
"Hosed"
I wanted to like this camera. Decent price for an HD surveillance camera over ethernet. However, like everyone else said, it falls short. I didn't care too much about not being able to use triggers or other such things in the highest resolution mode. However, I was not able to get the 30 frames per second in any of the video modes offered. Actually, I think the best I was able to get across our internal network was about 2 frames per second. We wanted to use this as a remote camera to record our tests, but at 2 frames per second, it will never do.
The other problem with this camera is that it arrived malfunctioning from the start. The led was blinking red and the documentation stated that the camera should be sent to an authorized repair center. Since that was not reasonable for a new product, I returned the camera. Maybe that also caused the low frame rate, but I don't know.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Great camera for the moneyJul 04, 2011
By ErnestNM
Well, I read all these reviews and then some elsewhere and figured that it would still be a good investment even if some of the functionality was lost in 1280x960. Then, I used the same process and came to the same conclusion with Blue Iris software. The cameras (I bought two) are a great value since the lost functionality in 1280x960 is made up by Blue Iris functionality for my unique purposes. I don't need the triggers and continuous streaming if fine since I bought the D-Link gigabit POE switch. But I did want high resolution and pan and tilt in a small package for outdoors with POE. In 1280x960 stream mode the camera can only continuously send "snapshots" in JPEG mode which appears to be at a speed greater than 10 per second that can be picked up by Blue Iris. This because the camera cannot internally "buffer & transfer" in any other compression (such as MPEG-4 or H.264) in 1280x960 resolution. I don't understand what all is involved with that limitation and it took me quite a while to figure all this out! But, I only need 5 per second for recording which I set in Blue Iris. So, my expectations have been met or exceeded by the camera. But, my expectations were VASTLY execeeded by what Blue Iris can do for its cost! I really didn't expect that to happen since it is so inexpensive. I'm actually a little worried that something may be up with that...hope not.
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