1. A video camera, comprising: a wide-angle camera system configured to generate a digital video image using a lens providing an approximate hemispherical field of view and an image sensor, the digital video image distorted by the lens; an image processing circuit that receives and processes the distorted electronic image data to mathematically correct the distortion and can process image data correlating to a plurality of generated virtual cameras monitoring individual regions of interest within the digital video image, that also includes simultaneously monitoring multiple specific objects without losing surveillance of other objects, the processing of the digital image covering either a wide-angle frame or regions of interest within the frame, where the camera system simultaneously maintains a view covering the entire approximate visual hemisphere; and a control circuit that transmits commands to the image processing circuit relating to one or more selected virtual cameras monitoring a region of interest, the image processing circuit responding to the commands with executed commanded movement by correcting optical distortion to emulate a pan, tilt, or zoom command in a specified virtual camera.