Although I have never purchased this camera for my own personal use, I have installed many as contract jobs for local chemical manufacturers as we have several in my area. Most of them use this camera indoors for monitoring their equipment in HAZMAT production or the processes that are involved in their production. The camera case is a rugged stainless steel case that withstand a lot of force and the camera can hold up to a lot of abuse from chemicals, heat, etc. The camera itself has a 1/4" Sony 410K/470K pixel Ex-View HAD PS CCD sensor. The camera has a powerful 43X optical zoom with an additional 16X digital zoom. Using the On Screen Display menu system and adjusting the Sense-Up and Day/Night Function this camera has great sensitivity in low light conditions. It can go as low as 0.001 LUX in color and 0.0001 LUX in black and white. Other electronic features include wide dynamic range, advanced motion detection, back light compensation, adaptive digital noise reduction, and digital image stabilization. The camera's OSD can be controlled remotely by the DVRs RS485 connection and the camera is also dual voltage. Businesses with a need for this camera that have had me install it have had no complaints about its performance.

Excellent PTZ camera for monitoring zones that are subject to ignition. The housing is made of a solid stainless steel and is extremely tough, rugged, and/or durable. We had a large pressure lid blow recently and it hit this camera smack dead on. I though for sure with the weight of that cover and the force it hit the camera with that we would find some substantial damage done to the camera. However, the camera wasn't even phased! The camera is pretty solid and records a decent video picture. Boost the Sense Up function and the camera gets some remarkable very low light capturing, even through the thick protective housing cover. Lots of good electronic features including extended dynamic range, back light compensation, advanced motion detection, and adaptive digital noise reduction. Excellent performance!

This is a very good camera for it's specialty purpose. The stainless steel housing is tough and provides a nice, tight exit for the camera cable. I can't say where we use this camera, but I can tell you we use it outdoors and it does an excellent job. However, before I forget, I want to note that your picture of this camera shows a wiper and this camera does NOT come with a wiper. Also the camera Pans and Tilts and Zooms. The 43X Zoom (it also has a 16X zoom but we don't use it) works great to bring things in close when you need to which works well with the resolution of the camera. The camera can "see" in extremely low light conditions which is also beneficial. There are very few outdoor night shots that can't be seen with our ambient light (and there isn't much). During the daytime, the wide dynamic range, back light compensation, and all the other goodies that come with it help to create a nice video picture without bright light washouts, annoying shadows, and other lighting problems. The camera has an on screen display menu system, which once you get used to it, is pretty easy to use. If you need an explosion proof PTZ camera, this one should serve your purpose.

We are a small chemical production company and we have a room within our plant that involves the use of highly flammable and highly volatile chemicals. Since the room was built especially to prevent premature ignition of these volatile gases we felt that the digital video camera that we use to monitor it should be explosion proof. This camera, with its pan and tilt functions, allows us to se just about every bit of the room and its contents so we can drastically limit the exposure to employees. It is a very nice camera.