Image quality is clearly one of the most important features of any camera, if not the most important. This is particularly so in video surveillance and monitoring applications, where lives and property are often at stake. If you do not have good image quality, then all the other factors and features really don’t matter. Superior image quality enables the user to more closely follow details and changes in images, making for better and faster decisions to more effectively safeguard people and property. It also ensures greater accuracy for automated analysis and alarm tools, such as motion detection and other built-in intelligence functions. When assessing a network camera’s image quality, be sure to research these questions: What is the light sensitivity? Level of image clarity? Does it have a high quality lens? And what is the image quality when there is motion in the image? A specsheet tells part of the story, but make sure to field test a few of the camera choices to make the specsheet information real for your application.