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+- Keep the CCTV camera picked with NEAREST, from the camera list or by a scene
+  when it is the camera the view just moved to. The pick did not stick:
+  NEAREST's own flight, or the next pan, switched to another camera, so the
+  panel showed a camera nobody had picked (gekh, #1702).