Fujifilm’s new surveillance camera can read license plates from 1km away

2019-7-23 16:38

Fujifilm has announced a new long-range surveillance camera that can spot vehicles’ licence plates from a kilometer away. To accomplish this, the so-called Fujifilm SX800 packs a built-in lens capable of 40x optical zoom, boosting the focal length from 20mm to 800mm.

It also supports a 1. 25x digital zoom for a maximum focal length of 1,000mm. To put this in simpler terms, the Japanese camera-maker says this equals about a kilometer in distance. And, indeed, it has included samples of the SX800’s zoom-in chops. Here’s what this looks like: Pretty impressive, right? Now imagine if someone manages to put this…

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