Configure Your Device; Need More Help; Image Quality - Axis P14 Series User Manual

AXIS P14 Network Camera Series

Configure your device

Configure your device

Need more help?

You can access the built-in help from the device's webpage. The help provides more detailed information on the device's features and
their settings.

Image quality

Select exposure mode
To improve image quality for specific surveillance scenes, use exposure modes. Exposure modes lets you control aperture, shutter
speed, and gain. Go to Video > Image > Exposure and select between the following exposure modes:
• For most use cases, select Automatic exposure.
• For environments with certain artificial lighting, for example fluorescent lighting, select Flicker-free.
• For environments with certain artificial light and bright light, for example outdoors with fluorescent lighting at night and
sun during daytime, select Flicker-reduced.
• To lock the current exposure settings, select Hold current.
View area
A view area is a cropped part of the full view. You can stream and store view areas instead of the full view to minimize bandwidth
and storage needs. If you enable PTZ for a view area, you can pan, tilt and zoom within it. By using view areas you can remove parts
of the full view, for example, the sky.
When you set up a view area, we recommend you to set the video stream resolution to the same size as or smaller than the view area
size. If you set the video stream resolution larger than the view area size it implies digitally scaled up video after sensor capture,
which requires more bandwidth without adding image information.
Hide parts of the image with privacy masks
You can create one or several privacy masks to hide parts of the image.
1. Go to Video > Privacy masks.
2. Click
3. Click the new mask and type a name.
4. Adjust the size and placement of the privacy mask according to your needs.
5. To change the color for all privacy masks, click Privacy masks and select a color.
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