diff --git a/src/camera-manager/manager.ts b/src/camera-manager/manager.ts
index f923ab1d..2f83ad18 100644
--- a/src/camera-manager/manager.ts
+++ b/src/camera-manager/manager.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 import { HomeAssistant } from 'custom-card-helpers';
-import {
-  CameraConfig,
-  CamerasConfig,
-  CardWideConfig,
-} from '../types.js';
+import { CameraConfig, CamerasConfig, CardWideConfig } from '../types.js';
 import { allPromises, arrayify, setify } from '../utils/basic.js';
 import {
   CameraManagerCameraCapabilities,
@@ -137,11 +133,11 @@ export class CameraManager {
     };
 
     const engineTypes = await getEngineTypes(camerasConfig);
-    for (const [index, cameraConfig] of camerasConfig.entries())  {
-      const engineType = engineTypes[index];      
+    for (const [index, cameraConfig] of camerasConfig.entries()) {
+      const engineType = engineTypes[index];
       const engine = engineType
-      ? engines.get(engineType) ?? this._engineFactory.createEngine(engineType)
-      : null;
+        ? engines.get(engineType) ?? this._engineFactory.createEngine(engineType)
+        : null;
       if (!engine || !engineType) {
         throw new CameraInitializationError(
           localize('error.no_camera_engine'),
@@ -180,6 +176,8 @@ export class CameraManager {
     entityRegistryManager: EntityRegistryManager,
     camerasConfig: CamerasConfig,
   ): Promise<void> {
+    const initializationStartTime = new Date();
+
     const hasAutoTriggers = (config: CameraConfig): boolean => {
       return config.triggers.motion || config.triggers.occupancy;
     };
@@ -229,6 +227,16 @@ export class CameraManager {
     if (!this._store.getVisibleCameraCount()) {
       throw new CameraInitializationError(localize('error.no_visible_cameras'));
     }
+
+    log(
+      this._cardWideConfig,
+      'Frigate Card CameraManager initialized (Cameras: ',
+      camerasConfig,
+      `, Duration: ${
+        (new Date().getTime() - initializationStartTime.getTime()) / 1000
+      }s,`,
+      ')',
+    );
   }
 
   public isInitialized(): boolean {
diff --git a/src/card.ts b/src/card.ts
index 010f3727..cbe9122a 100644
--- a/src/card.ts
+++ b/src/card.ts
@@ -1063,16 +1063,14 @@ class FrigateCard extends LitElement {
       this._cardWideConfig,
     );
 
-    // For each camera merge the config into the camera global config. The
-    // merging must happen in this order, to ensure that the defaults in the
-    // cameras global config do not override the values specified in the
-    // per-camera config.
+    // For each camera merge the config (which has no defaults) into the camera
+    // global config (which does have defaults). The merging must happen in this
+    // order, to ensure that the defaults in the cameras global config do not
+    // override the values specified in the per-camera config.
     const cameras = config.cameras.map((camera) =>
       merge(cloneDeep(config.cameras_global), camera),
     );
 
-    console.info("MERGED CAMERAS", cameras);
-
     try {
       await this._cameraManager.initializeCameras(
         hass,
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index d9969f04..89ecbc61 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -1282,9 +1282,14 @@ export interface CardWideConfig {
  * Main card config.
  */
 export const frigateCardConfigSchema = z.object({
-  // Main configuration sections.
-  cameras: camerasConfigSchema,
-  cameras_global: cameraConfigSchema.optional(),
+  // Defaults are stripped out of the individual cameras, since each camera will
+  // be merged with `cameras_global` which *does* have defaults. If we didn't do
+  // this, the default values of each individual camera would override the
+  // intentionally specified values in `cameras_global` during camera
+  // initialization when the two configs are merged.
+  cameras: deepRemoveDefaults(camerasConfigSchema),
+  cameras_global: cameraConfigSchema,
+
   view: viewConfigSchema,
   menu: menuConfigSchema,
   live: liveConfigSchema,