Posted on 02/02/2022 10:36:23 AM PST by nickcarraway
On the light poles. Power is already there
I don’t know of a $200 camera capable of the image quality necessary to accomplish this stated goal. The fisheye on most of them makes the image crap past 20-30ft even on 4K models.
If the camera you are looking at cannot CLEARLY capture a license plate on a vehicle in the road, you haven’t found your solution, yet.
VERY likely, most properties need at least two cameras — one for the porch and immediate front yard, and a second for the street/driveway.
But then you’ve got placement issues, wiring demands, and mitigating the threat of theft negatively impacting your installation plan.
Against those odds, $200 doesn’t go very far.
“The fisheye on most of them makes the image crap past 20-30ft even on 4K models”
A 95-100° view, common on outdoor security cameras, is not a fisheye.
“If the camera you are looking at cannot CLEARLY capture a license plate on a vehicle in the road, you haven’t found your solution, yet”
It is rather difficult to read the license plate on a car going past at 90 degrees to the driveway regardless of the optical quality unless the license plate is on the side of the car.
A bigger problem than the fake ones you claim us that the resolution in night vision mode is unavoidably lower because of the wavelength of infrared. But better than nothing.
Two hundred dollars ain’t squat. I am sure there are demands if you take that scrawny 200.
“On the light poles. Power is already there”
You think they’d be able to identify the direction the 22 round came from?
Ring cameras are accessed by the police all over your area. They can follow everyone’s movements.
Meanwhile the criminals stay out of jail due to the democrats not locking them up.
“A 95-100° view, common on outdoor security cameras, is not a fisheye.”
TECHNICALLY, no. However, although I neither know nor much care where the line is between “fisheye” and “not a fisheye”; I DO know that people understand what you mean if you call it that.
“It is rather difficult to read the license plate on a car going past at 90 degrees to the driveway regardless of the optical quality unless the license plate is on the side of the car.”
And that’s why I mentioned having two cameras, so one could be near enough to the street where a passing plate would enter the field of view.
“A bigger problem than the fake ones you claim...”
BOTH of these issues were top of the list at an install where the property owner ultimately — to get cameras capable of delivering useful images — spent over $1200 each for commercial grade 4K webcams that had a good mix of FOV and image quality, and fed crisp, full-color video to a cloud server that sent text notifications, including a frame capture, when a camera was activated and recording.
Retail units at lower price points either had too wide a FOV so the face of a person 50ft away was TINY, and pixelated when zoomed in, OR the manufacturer required a monthly subscription to a proprietary service to house the videos, and/or the record length was limited, and/or video archives couldn’t be easily accessed, and/or the property owner didn’t own the videos... on and on.
Had a guy I worked with long ago who used to say, “Ya pay peanuts; ye get monkeys.” Absolutely true in this video security realm.
“...the resolution in night vision mode is unavoidably lower because of the wavelength of infrared. But better than nothing.”
True, and true.
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