Security cameras
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| 1 | for home. What brand is good? There are so many on the market gets so confusing. Would like one that has a good clear camera night and day. angie117 - 2021-02-09 18:18:00 |
| 2 | My recomendation is the EZVIZ cameras. Edited by keytag at 9:29 pm, Tue 9 Feb keytag - 2021-02-09 21:28:00 |
| 3 | I put a 125gb card in them, to hold motion recordings. keytag - 2021-02-09 21:32:00 |
| 4 | BUT… there are a couple of things I don’t like about EZVIZ. It is impossible to find a model to model comparison chart anywhere on the Internet, it just don’t exist. If you search on TM you’ll find a few EZVIZ cameras but nowhere is there a chart where can you compare their features side by side, price by price. I reckon they lose a lot of sales because of this. Their instructions are ok but are basic, if you are not that techo and you’ve got a problem you’ll eventually find the answer but it can take a bit of searching. The cameras are white and quite visible (as most are) I painted mine black (with sun resistant paint) so are they are now hard to see. The IR lights glow a slight red at night (as most 850nm IR cameras do). And their instructions are in stupid faint grey on grey font, ok to read on a desktop but impossible outside on a cellphone, faint fonts are a pet hate of mine. Edited by keytag at 9:59 pm, Tue 9 Feb keytag - 2021-02-09 21:57:00 |
| 5 | Arlo. Very popular. Simple wireless plug and play. You can set up the whole system in minutes. Yes, you will get geeks saying wired cameras are far better blah blah. And that the Arlo is overpriced. They probably have a point, but for ease of use, good customer back-up, wide range of accessories, they really are good. Pro 2 is my current recommendation of the cameras available. You can go to pro 3 and ultra for some really amazing resolution and other features, but the pro 2 is the best one that you can get without having to pay a subscription for cloud storage. callum.irvine - 2021-02-09 22:14:00 |
| 6 | Here’s a couple of photos taken tonight. Note these are rough installations, just chucked together to see if they would work over 150m, I’m sure I can get better quality if I angle the cameras a bit different etc, they are bigger and better on the PC, as TM has reduced the quality, far as I know TM photo links only valid for 30 days. You can see a white dot in the top centre, that’s the IR night light from the neighbours EZVIV camera across the valley, there’s been a bit of ‘activity’ in the area hence the recent camera installations. The IR dot shows on my camera but is invisible to the eye. https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/1485203330.jpg Edited by keytag at 10:59 pm, Tue 9 Feb keytag - 2021-02-09 22:45:00 |
| 7 | Another shot from the 2nd EZVIZ camera looking down the driveway, the light you can see at the bottom is the IR light from my other camera, invisible to the eye. It kinda looks like the bottom camera is pointing a bit too much towards the ground. Again the quality could possibly be better with a bit of adjustment. There’s a quite a few branches that blow in the wind but you can mark out areas so they do not trigger the motion detect, seems to work very well. https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/1485203507.jpg Pretty good for $170 :-) Edited by keytag at 11:01 pm, Tue 9 Feb keytag - 2021-02-09 22:49:00 |
| 8 | Oh.. and a trick I learned, if bugs and spiders crawling across the lens are a problem, give the lens and surrounding area a hefty spray with fly spray, I used the foaming Mortien surface stuff, then wipe the lens. They won't come near it for a few weeks. keytag - 2021-02-09 22:56:00 |
| 9 | I'm using just good old swann - 4k 8 channel NVR. Works well although i wouldn't rate the software that comes with it the easiest one to use. The remote view app is OK but again not the the most intuitive, acura - 2021-02-09 22:56:00 |
| 10 | The EZVIZ app also has finger scroll Pan/Tilt Zoom, this is a 4.2 times zoom of the camera at the bottom of the drive, at 4.2 zoom it is a bit blurry but if you compare to the original image it is zoomed onto a small area and is better on the PC, but again for $170 I reckon it’s pretty good. https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/1485210348.jpg EZVIZ should give me a free camera for writing such rave reviews ha ha. Edited by keytag at 11:19 pm, Tue 9 Feb keytag - 2021-02-09 23:18:00 |
| 11 | keytag wrote: angie117 - 2021-02-10 07:00:00 |
| 12 | pretty pics but will it pickup number plates ?. 5425 - 2021-02-10 09:14:00 |
| 13 | Not too bad on number plates, this is probably from 10m ? https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/1485619157.jpg But number plates (on any camera) can be tricky, so much depends on the angle of approach, camera height, speed of the car, natural lighting, head lights on/off, dirty number plate, reflections etc. Often the easiest plates to read are the back number plate at night in black and white, as the plate is illuminated.. We have fitted a camera monitoring a row of rural letter boxes, every car slows to approach the boxes and at some point is 3-5m directly from the front of the hidden camera so facial and number plate shots are clear as. If you want long range (50m+), moderate speed, angled, elevated, number plate recognition you would be better to use an adjustable zoom lens camera that focuses on a specific area, rather than a general wide angle camera. Not bad for a $170 camera thou. Edited by keytag at 3:11 pm, Wed 10 Feb keytag - 2021-02-10 15:08:00 |
| 14 | This is a PowerCo ute approaching the camera but side on at about 20m and unreadable. https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/1485634337.jpg And as it goes side on: The original photos was over 1meg but it has been rendered through .png and .jpeg formats and TM has it as 646 x 1172 so whatever that comes down to. The original on a decent desktop monitor is clearer. keytag - 2021-02-10 15:24:00 |
| 15 | This message was deleted. azza20 - 2021-02-11 22:16:00 |
