Panasonic Remote Video Monitoring Webcam and Pet Cam BL-C10A | 
| Brand: Panasonic
Buy New: $259.99
New (1) Refurbished (1) from $259.99
Rating:  32 reviews
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.3 x 3.5
MPN: BL-C10A
Model: BL-C10A
UPC: 037988809738
EAN: 0037988809738
ASIN: B0002GS4Z0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Place it almost anywhere that you'd like to keep an eye on things, with no PC required on location | | • | Control remotely using a standard Web browser, video display, or compatible cell phone/PDA | | • | Built-in thermal sensor can be programmed to email an alert with an image attached when someone gets near your computer | | • | Automatically upload images to an FTP server or Web page -- images can be viewed by 30 users at once | | • | Plug-and-play setup makes it easy to install and use in most cases |
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Product Description
See there when you can't be there! Panasonic BL-C10 is the newest and most compact Network Camera!PRODUCT FEATURES:Stylish & compact;Human Detection Sensor - if it detects someone, it notifies you by e-mail;Color Night View mode - view images even in low light;Privacy mode ensures your privacy;Setup is easy with UPnP - even a beginner can setup the camera thanks to UPnP support;Camera control - even when away from home, you can change the direction of the camera lens: Pan/Tilt;Viewing the camera via mobile phone;Multi-camera feature;Image buffer feature;Viewnetcam.com service;Built-in web server.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 Excellent Camera, Excellent Value. November 4, 2004
K. Wagenheim (USA)
49 out of 50 found this review helpful
I purchased this network camera to keep an eye on our cats while we were vacationing and just to check in on the house. I was very pleased by the quality and ease of use the camera has.
Setting up the camera was very easy and I had no problems.
The camera's clarity is incredible for its price range, considering that it also pans and scans (with great range of motion).
Speaking to clarity, when the camera moves in any direction, the motors makes a little noise... Not obnoxious or anything, but curious cats had to come check it out each time we moved it while away. Using the snapshot ability on the camera, we got some of the best pictures of the 'kids' we've gotten from any camera when we were there in person.
The camera worked flawlessly - what a great way to ease your mind if you have good internet access where the camera is and where you'll be.
Highly recommended... I'm writing this review because I'm back to order another for different part of the house. :-)
 Not too shabby... September 3, 2004
Plank (West Monroe, LA USA)
40 out of 43 found this review helpful
I am not an expert on webcams but I have done a lot of research. My main computer is a Windows XP machine but I wanted to view webcam images on my Mac Powerbook and cell phone. First of all, the price is right, about half the cost of a Toshiba camera I was thinking about. Set up was automatic with my Linksys router. Image quality is good and has several settings. It has some nice features that are easy to use. You have to play with the confusing buffer/transfer/email settings for a while so you don't get overloaded with email. Motion is often blurry. For Mac users, Safari and IE will not work on your free Panasonic web page. Firefox will. On my i500 Palm Smartphone, WebPro browser doesn't work but Blazer will. It works great with Snappermail too. So far, I am happy with my purchase even though it doesn't have sound, wireless, or weather resistance.
Excellent little cam, networking was a major headache March 1, 2006
V. Madan (NEW YORK, NY USA)
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
First the camera:
+ Loving the pan and tilt
+ Works well over a home DSL connection - adequate refresh rates in both 320 and 640 modes
+ Viewnetcam service is a lifesaver - much easier to remember a user-selected URL (e.g., xxx.viewnetcam.com) than a cryptic IP address
+ Nice ability to disable the light showing the cam is in operation - not very stealthy if someone in your home knows that the camera is on by looking at the indicator light
- No audio (I knew this up front)
- No zoom (knew this too)
If that was it, I'd say this is a great value and might even give the camera 5 stars.
However, the whole point of a security webcam is to access it when you're not around and this is where Panasonic fails miserably. User manual is too simplistic to be of much use if you need to manually configure your router for port forwarding. I learned more about routing tables, forwarding ports, static NAT and a host of other things than I ever wanted, or should have needed, to learn in order to get this working. This despite the fact that my router supposedly supported uPnP (plug and play). I split the blame across Panasonic (poor manual / instructions), Westell (horrific wireless router) and Verizon (my DSL provider who told me they don't support, and can't help me figure out, port forwarding using my Westell router). Where did I get this router? Verizon of course! I didn't have a choice.
So all in all, I'd give 5 stars for the camera, 0 stars for Verizon, 1 star for the panasonic manual and 0 stars for Westell. Also Google wasn't much help in finding an answer, let's give them 2 stars on this one.
Great product September 23, 2004
Luis H. Gomez Guerra (Monterrey, Mexico)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Just received my camera. Setup was a breeze.
I have not yet used the Dynamic IP service from Panasonic, but I think it will work fine as any other service of this type.
The automatic PnP function did not work trying to configure my Linksys router. A minor nuance if you do not know how to setup your router.
Image quality is very good, but not excelent. The camera has a little trouble working on the white balance, but the provided controls on the browser application let you adjust, so no problem here either. Again, image quality is way above webcams, better that other network cams on the price range, but below than higher ticket net cams.
A nice feature is that you can set up to 4 positions (there are five already preset: camera corners and home position), so you can easly go from checking the door to the desk, etc. in one single mouse click.
Althoug it is designed to be set on a fixed position, on my tests I hooked up to a mini-tripod. By accident, I pull the network cord making the camera fell to the hard floor from about 5 feet. Nothing happened to it.
For the price, it is a highly recomendable PAN/TILT Camera.
Enjoy.
Works great with Mac OS December 17, 2006
B. Moraes (Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This review was originally posted by JC for the Wireless version of this camera. I'm adapting here his suggestions for the wired version.
Don't be fooled by the documentation that states "Windows Required". It will work fine on your Mac OS X. Here are step-by-step instructions for setting it up using a Mac (don't worry, the steps go by quickly!):
1) Plug-in camera to AC and hold down the "reset" pin with a pen. My computer would not recognize the camera until I physically reset it.
2) Connect the camera via Cross Over Ethernet cable to you Mac.
3) Temporarily give your Mac the manual IP address 192.168.0.5 and subnet 255.255.255.0 in the Network Prefs.
4) Connect to the camera using Safari at address 192.168.0.253 - you should be able to see the settings page now. Choose username and preferences, but say "No" when it asks if you want to "access from the internet". This will make it try to find your router (which is not on the network) so don't do it.
5) Enter 192.168.0.253 in Safari once again and it should take you to the Network Camera page. You should have access to the camera controls after you click the "Single" tab at the top of the page. But we're not done yet.
6) Click the Setup tab on right side of the tabbed toobar.
7) Click Static IP to load the static ip address page for the camera
8) Uncheck the "Enable" checkbox at the top. This is for Windows setup.
9) Enter an IP address in your wireless network. My network is 192.168.2.x so I gave my camera 192.168.2.253.
10) Enter your router's address in the Default Gateway field. Example: 192.168.2.1. If you don't do this, your camera will not be accessible from outside your wireless network!
11) Enter your ISP DNS server address, otherwise you won't be able to send automatic e-mails when trigger events occur nor use the viewnetcam service from Panasonic
12) Click Save.
13) Disconnect the ethernet cable from your computer and connect the camera to the router using a REGULAR network card (not the same cross over).
14) Unplug the camera power, replug camera power (to restart it)
15) The camera should now go through it's blinking light procedure and if all is well you'll get a solid green light.
16) Go to your Network Prefs and set your computer back to connecting to the internet
17) You should now be able to access your camera at the address 192.168.2.253
18) Your router blocks traffic from the internet to your camera so you cannot view the camera from outside your network. To access your camera from the internet you'll neet to open a port on your router that maps to your camera. This can be done by setting up a "Virtual Server" (aka port forwarding) on the router. See your router's instructions for mapping a virtual server to your camera's IP and port.
19) Configure the remaining settings (date & time, email triggers, etc)
Happy viewing...
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