Huisun 10x PTZ mini-bullet garage installation

[Larebear]

Keep tuning it Lare and post the results if any...this Huisun PTZ may become THE cheap plate reader for the next year of so.

Here's another. These are only at 3x zoom.

 

[Larebear]

Actually the shutter speed of 1/250 seems to work fine during the day too.

Damn, going to have to order a couple more of these. Monica is getting rich.

 

[badmop]

Order me 1 while you are at it!

 

[Larebear]

Order me 1 while you are at it!

I'll do that. Give me your CC number, expiration date and CVV code and I'll get it ordered right away.

 

[ibuyufo]

I bought 2 initially and then ordered 3 more!

 

[Larebear]

I bought 2 initially and then ordered 3 more!

Smart move. I might have to do the same. Really liking this camera.

 

[Larebear]

One more license plate capture at 7x this time.

 

[lulu5kamz]

I now have one of these cameras in both the front of the house and the back of the house. During the day I zoomed in on a car parked up the street to see if I could read the license plate. Not only was I able to read the license plate but a van drove by while I was zoomed in and when I looked at the video later, frame by frame, I was able to read the plate of the van that was going about 25 mph.

 

[SyconsciousAu]

Wow, that worked. Thanks! Can now read license plates at night. Wonder if there's a way to automatically change settings from day to night with this camera? Here's a night shot of a license plate.

You shouldn't need to change the setting. You shutter speed should be your minimum shutter speed. In daylight the camera will be free to adjust the shutter speed to the available light

Keep tuning it Lare and post the results if any...this Huisun PTZ may become THE cheap plate reader for the next year of so.

2mp with a 50mm lens for under US$150? You bet! The glass alone on my plate cam cost more than that. Will probably need more IR in a lot of applications to run high enough shutter speed to eliminate motion blur. I run 1/1000 on mine. I started at 1/500 but motion blur on the plates was a bit of an issue.

Edit: - You would have to run it in manual focus in that application though. You couldn't let the auto focus make the decisions lest it focus on the far scene and give you blurry plate pictures.

 

[Larebear]

I now have one of these cameras in both the front of the house and the back of the house. During the day I zoomed in on a car parked up the street to see if I could read the license plate. Not only was I able to read the license plate but a van drove by while I was zoomed in and when I looked at the video later, frame by frame, I was able to read the plate of the van that was going about 25 mph.

These mini-bullet cameras are great during the day with the default setting for reading plates. To read license plates at night without external lighting the shutter speed needs to be set at 250 or maybe higher. Thanks to SyconsciousAu for that info. Only problem is when you set the shutter speed that high, you can't see much of anything else, like people or critters walking down the street. Maybe one mini-bullet for reading license plates and another for capturing everything else might be the best way to go?

 

[Larebear]

It still amazes me on how well of a job this camera does in capturing license plates during the night or day. Through the night, it captures the license plate of every car that drives by. My garage being close to the street helps though.

 

[SyconsciousAu]

Looks like you are in a good position generally. Your camera is almost perpendicular to the plate.

 

[Larebear]

Looks like you are in a good position generally. Your camera is almost perpendicular to the plate.

The street runs north and south. I can pick up the license plates by either pointing the camera to the north or to the south. The garage where the camera is mounted is just a few yards from the street, which does help. There's only a few cars that drive by here at night though. Most cars in this neighborhood drive 10 to 20 mph, so guess that helps too.

 

[blake]

Lare is the the ptz you have come to like the most out of all your ptz cams?

 

[Larebear]

Lare is the the ptz you have come to like the most out of all your ptz cams?

Yes, it's my favorite PTZ camera. I like the Dahua PTZ camera too but it doesn't have IR LED's. The two Poker 10x PTZ cameras are the worst of the lot since the image quality suffers somewhat compared to the other PTZ cameras.

 

[blake]

Okay ty. I think I'm going to give this cam a chance and mount it more toward the right side of my garage. I only need the plain poe version.

 

[Larebear]

All three of the cameras I ordered were the PoE models. I didn't need the audio/alarm since I use audio from another camera to share with the Huisun in BI. I think you'll really like the camera.

 

[Q™]

Lare...you pussy...order the speed dome now and do your usual excellent reporting on it!

 

[Larebear]

Nah, don't need anymore speed domes. I have that re-branded 12x Dahua dome on my garage. One thing I like about the domes is the PTZ speed is much faster than the mini bullet. Another advantage of the dome is that nobody can see which direction the camera is pointed.

 

[lulu5kamz]

This car was parked on the corner for 10 minutes earlier this evening with it's lights turned off. From that spot in the street there is a nice view downtown. I'm guessing they were just looking at the view. Even at this angle the camera was able to read the license plate. All I had to change to view the plate was switching the camera from Auto Exposure to Manual and the plate number appeared. I didn't have to change the default Shutter speed either. Here are the pictures: