Wide dynamic range (WDR)

Wide dynamic range is a feature in some Axis network cameras that incorporates techniques for handling a wide range of lighting conditions in a scene.

In a scene with extremely bright and dark areas or in backlight situations where a person is in front of a bright window, a typical camera would produce an image where objects in the dark areas would hardly be visible. Wide dynamic range solves this by applying techniques such as using different exposures for different objects in a scene to enable objects in both bright and dark areas to be visible.

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