Security cameras become premium: 4K recording with low light, WiFi and more

4K security camera

If something is good at Sony are the cameras and sensors, whenever the company announces one of them, all manufacturers start making plans to add them in their projects. Within the photographic segment, Sony has a wide range of devices for all types of disciplines, uses and users, which sometimes do not receive the same attention as commercial products to the end user, unless it be something spectacular like this case.

4K security camera
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Sony is announced the upcoming release of one of its most powerful cameras that integrate a number of features that will as the best on the market thanks to its specifications, the funny thing is that this is a security camera, that is, we are facing the premiere of the premium range of video surveillance cameras.

Full frame 4K video at 30fps for surveillance?

The new ‘SNC-VB770’ Sony is the first mirrorless camera security with top-end specifications, first we have a CMOS sensor Exmor full frame (35.6 x 23.8 mm) with 12,2MP, yes, almost the same riding its camera recently announced Alpha 7s II, with which we can record content in 4K format at 30 fps in very low light conditions, reaching up to 0.004 lux.

Of course it supports WiFi to become an IP camera so you can access the image from anywhere, even from your smartphone; It has support for LAN connection and can be programmed to send images in JPEG or VGA movies from time to time to our smartphone or computer, either via email or via an app.

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All this resolution can also be utilized to select fragments of a scene and display it in a mosaic of four images in VGA order to have details of one place. The idea of this camera is to monitor museums, railway bridges, airports, and places that need constant monitoring with a higher degree of detail.

Security Camera Sony SNC-VB770 will be available during the month of August 2016 at a price yet to be defined, but we imagine it will not be cheap also consider that this price only includes the camera body, goals They sold separately, but we can use any mount E, which will give us the possibility of wide – angle, telephoto, and other options that will certainly revolutionize video surveillance.