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Lighting level page

In brief

This page of the Camera/Digitizer properties window only applies to some cameras. It allows you to alter the actual lighting of the scene being viewed by the camera.

Details

Some cameras have built-in lights which illuminate the scene they are viewing, and this page allows you to alter the intensity of these lights. The page is only displayed if the camera supports this functionality.

Infrared lighting

In some cameras, the lights used to illuminate the scene are infrared. In this case, the camera usually doesn't detect the visible light because it is fitted with a visible-block/infrared-pass filter - this has the advantage that the visible light levels can change without affecting the camera's view of the scene.

In this case, the adjustments you make using this page will alter the intensity of the infrared lights which will affect the camera's view of the scene. Therefore you will see the video image become brighter or darker, while the illumination under the camera will appear to be unaffected.

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