Optical Zoom and Focus

ECC500 or higher cameras with motorized lens can change view angles on remote. You can change the field of view and focus on remote. It saves efforts to adjust the view angle on site. The changes are by optical lens, not digital zoom-in without losing image quality.

You can find the optical zoom and focus mode from Camera detail page > Settings

Optical Zoom: Dragging the slider to the left switches to a wider view, covering a larger area and making it suitable for wide-area monitoring. Dragging it to the right zooms in to a narrower view, enlarging distant objects for detailed observation. All adjustments are performed through optical zoom, ensuring that image quality is preserved.

Manual Focus: Manual Focus allows you to control how the camera adjusts image clarity. When Manual Focus is enabled, you can manually adjust focus between near and far objects on the video player.

When manual focus is disabled, the camera switches to automatic focus with the condition. You can trigger camera to focus automatically for one time. In addition, Auto Focus Interval can be enabled to allow the camera to automatically perform an autofocus operation at a specified interval ranging from 1 to 168 hours, which is useful for long-term deployments where environmental conditions may change.