It is important to understand what views you will get from a specific location. You really should make a plan that states what you wish to accomplish by putting a cam in a specific location. I know it is easy to just say "put a cam at each corner in the soffit and one by the garage", but without stating exactly what you expect from a cam in that location, if you have an incident and don't get a good useable shot, you will be pissed. Or like the guy down the street that installed several Ring cams and got blurry video of the person pilfering through his truck. His wife said, basically "You spent a grand on those cams and you can't even tell if it is a guy or girl?"
Case in point: What is it that you want to be able to see from location C4? Just see if someone is there? Be able to ID a face of a perp at night? How far away would they be? Do you have any lighting there at night?
Most folks here will say two cams at the garage pointed in a crossing pattern. That is how my garage is set up. Cams high up will only get you good overview looks and probably not good face shots unless the perps are away from the cams but then you need zoom to see them.
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My driveway has two cams, one on each side of the garage door:
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View attachment 71425 This gives me two possible angles on a perp in my driveway. Below is a still from a BI recording that was used to ID and arrest a perp door checker this year.
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Start out small. I suggest one varifocal cam, like the 5442 turret varifocal (HDW5442T-ZE aka T5442T-ZE). Place it on a test rig as described in the
Cliff Notes and test your plan. Do not run wires or mount cam until you are happy with the proposed location. Here is my test rig:
View attachment 71429 Make sure you walk it at night.
If you do it this way, you will find as you gain experience and knowledge, your plan will change, evolve. Mine has changed several times over the two years I have been active.
It is OK to have overview cams. But one must realize that they will not give you face shots that will ID a perp and get a conviction. I believe in fit-for-purpose selection of cams. Each on my 18 cams was picked based on it's functionality with respect to the job it needs to do. Those 18 cams are spread across 10 models. Some are varifocal, and some are fixed lens cams. The FOV was chosen by testing the location with a varifocal and getting the best FOV and then selecting the lens size from that test.