Basic Types of Backup Cameras

Car owners should consider getting rear view safety license plate cameras on their cars, trucks, RVs. Rearview license plate cameras are as easy to install as a new license plate! Not only are backup safety license plate cameras easy to install they also preserve the integrity of your truck's body because there are no holes to drill.

Rearview safety cameras give you increased safety and protection while reversing or entering a paring space. Avoid expensive damage, collisions and pedestrian mishaps.

Basic Types of Rearview Safety Cameras

Bar style rearview cameras are designed to slide easily over the standardized nuts in place to affix a license plate. Bar style license plate cameras sit above your license plate for a low profile look with perfect placement for seeing what's happening behind you.

Full-frame rear view cameras are simply a custom license plate frame with a high-tech video camera integrated into it. Just detach your existing license plate from the bolts that attach it to your vehicle, put your plate in the new frame then re-attache the camera frame back to the car, truck, RV or any other vehicle.

License plate hole cameras screw into the hole on any common license plate set up. Simply screw it in and you are ready to go. Its that easy!

Image Resolution on Backup Safety Cameras

Image resolution are all about the level of detail and quality of the video images the backup camera gives. Obviously a better quality image will allow you to see more clearly and more confidently what is happening behind you and improve your safety. The factors affecting image definition include:

Lens Type – The kind of lens found in your rear view camera will be either CCD or CMOS. These lenses have multiple technical differences which we won’t get into right now. Long story short, while CMOS lenses can give good value and are often used to keep costs low CCD lenses generally signal a product built to provide better quality images.

TV Lines - the greater the count of TV lines indicated on the specifications of your camera the better. Measuring TV lines is like measuring pixels with still shot images. Larger number of TV lines provides much more detail and clarity of the video image.

LUX rating - a low LUX rating means the camera requires less ambient light to enter the aperture to create an image. LUX is based on candle power yes I said candle power... 1 LUX means the lens requires the equivalent of a single candle about a yard away. Therefore, 0.1 LUX indicates one tenth of a candle is required.

Infra-red lighting on Backup Cameras

For a rear view safety camera to achieve true night vision or a 0 LUX rating it requires to provide its own light. Usually the ambient light will be supplied by your vehicle’s own lights or parking lights but can also be had by adding infra-red lighting to the camera itself. Infra-red LEDs are not visible to human eyes and would allow you to use the rear view vehicle camera without your car lights on and let you see in complete darkness.

Mini surveillance cameras

Board cameras are mini cameras that feature a digital lens mounted onto a miniature circuit board. Mini surveillance cameras are usually only one inch by one inch so they are ideally sized for security camera setups where secrecy is important.
Mini surveillance cameras are often the camera of choice for spy surveillance camera system monitoring. Some mini cameras will even utilize pinhole lenses. On average a pinhole lens is a sixteenth of an inch in diameter. This is the only part of the camera that must be exposed in order for a picture to be obtained.
Pinhole lenses come in two varieties – flat or conical.

1. Conical lenses can work with a smaller hole and are often used in security camera systems using ceiling tiles.
2. Flat lenses require a larger hole and are a good choice when your security camera system is to be situated in thin material, like clothing. 

 With their smaller hole size the pinhole lens does have a slightly lower resolution than the board lens. which is typically 1/2 inch in diameter, to allow more light to get in.