'All Light Everywhere' sneak peek: Factory tour
An exclusive clip from the documentary 'All Light Everywhere'
Video Transcript
- We're about to go into our production facility on the third floor of Axon. And right now, before we go in there, you're actually in the viewing room because, sometimes, you don't want people to get full access to that. So now, what I can do is show you the viewing room aspect of it in terms of turning it on and off.
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- This is where all the activity really is taking place. It's the nuts and bolts of our company right here. We actually hand make our Axon body cameras and also our taser weapons and some of the accessories that go with it. So everything is made here that you wear in the body. So we're going to take a look first at our Axon body cameras. We'll take a gander here.
This is where we make the Axon Body 2. Now what's different about this is that the lens is incorporated in the actual controller aspect of it, meaning that I can wear this now and record from my chest using a magnet mount anywhere in my body. Truly a body camera where you mount it to your body.
So here, we make sure that the camera itself is focusing properly. This is where we do a lens check, processing quality assurance along the way. We need to make sure that it can contrast, see in the dark, and mimic the human eye.
This is a very unique camera lens in that we don't want to not mimic the eye because we don't want to be able to see in the dark. Humans can't see the dark. So if we had an incident which some maybe drew what looked like a firearm down a hallway, we don't want the infrared to show that it wasn't a gun or was a gun because the officer doesn't see an infrared. That could jade a jury. We want to mimic what the human eye can see.
If you go beyond that, now you're going to see things that maybe a jury would say, well, the video itself-- if this was a squirt gun, not a real gun-- but the officer can't see that. You want to see what he saw. So we saw some camera companies in the very early stages that were competing with us using infrared. Big mistake. They don't do that because you can't go into court like that because it doesn't mimic the human eye. Certain things you don't want to see.
There are things you want to see just like the officer sees from the officer's perspective. When it comes to court cases, what the officer's perspective is key. And that's always been the case. So you don't want to give them something beyond their perspective.
