Monthly Archives: July 2026

Resolution isn’t the problem — the lens is. What focal length and field of view actually determine, the pixels-per-foot math behind usable footage, and how to pair wide context cameras with one chokepoint camera that captures faces and plates.

If your camera is pinging you at 3am every night this July, it’s not a ghost – it’s the IR/bug/spider/cobweb chain. Here’s the five-minute monthly routine that stops it, plus the four “don’t do this” cleaning mistakes that quietly ruin a $250 camera.