FOV and camera config

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kolbasz

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whats the strategy here? flip to portrait for a taller image that gets across the whole front of the garage or stay landscape for the wider image?

landscape captures more to the left and less to the bottom right.

The goal is another camera at the other end of the garage facing this direction, so technically that would complete the capture of the bottom right corner once I get it.

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There’s no right or wrong answer. What are you trying to accomplish with your camera(s)? If that’s your neighbor’s driveway on the left, why do you care about it being in your FOV?
 
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You do not need the soffit in the picture. Nor do you need the carriage lights.

You need to define exactly what you want to get from this view. Face ID? How far away?
 
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Swampledge said:
There’s no right or wrong answer. What are you trying to accomplish with your camera(s)? If that’s your neighbor’s driveway on the left, why do you care about it being in your FOV?
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It is. Probably the only reason i would need it in the shot is if I want to play vigilante?

Here is what it looks like

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samplenhold said:
You do not need the soffit in the picture. Nor do you need the carriage lights.

You need to define exactly what you want to get from this view. Face ID? How far away?
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This is the bit I am struggling to learn. I feel if I cut the carriage lights then I create a blind spot by cutting left. However, at the same time, if the Garage is closed, I would not technically miss anything except whatever is against the garage door. Putting a camera in the garage itself would technically cover said blind spot in the event the garage is open. While dropping to 4 feet would be great for facial recognition, the proposed lower spot was quickly shot down by the wife. I suspect this is a common occurance when we ask to place a capera at chest level in the middle of the house wall.

As for what I am trying to get from this view, I want to capture people approaching my garage. While the shot down the drive is great, other than seeing some action and knowing car, truck, person, identification will be difficult. I can add another camera capturing down the drive for that, so I suppose my goal is to capture the top apron section up to where the drive narrows.

As for the carriage lights, cutting them out would be ideal given the negative glare they create.
 
Worst case, shut off that carriage light.
 
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kolbasz said:
This is the bit I am struggling to learn. I feel if I cut the carriage lights then I create a blind spot by cutting left.
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Yes that is a problem. If a very thin person magically transports to that point at your garage without walking up the driveway, you might miss them. :)

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I want to capture people approaching my garage.
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That is not very clear: capture people. If all you want is to see them approaching, that is fine. But to get useable faces, they will have to be close to the cam. This seems to be a fairly wide angle cam, like a 2.8mm?

Also, you do not need to lower the mounting point to remove the soffit, just angle it down more.
 
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sebastiantombs said:
Worst case, shut off that carriage light.
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good point, they are usually off. but after reading here, I thought we like color night photos, so I was planning a automated power on off the lights when the camera detects motion... Perhaps I cancel that project :)
 
samplenhold said:
Yes that is a problem. If a very thin person magically transports to that point at your garage without walking up the driveway, you might miss them. :)


That is not very clear: capture people. If all you want is to see them approaching, that is fine. But to get useable faces, they will have to be close to the cam. This seems to be a fairly wide angle cam, like a 2.8mm?

Also, you do not need to lower the mounting point to remove the soffit, just angle it down more.
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points noted. There is no thin man and if I have a camera pointing the other direction towards this one, it captures the bit in question.

Anything much farther down the drive will detect and capture an object, but not enough to identify. About the only thing it may identify is the amazon guy driving into my mailbox, such as my front door camera.

camera is a 2.8, the 5442 to be exact. Seems to be my common play at the moment.
 
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ok, getting things a little more dialed in. took the soffit down to locate a more permanent mount point other that a 2x4 leaning against the house. Only direction I could go is 6-10 inches left, but I doubt that buys me anything given the current state. If anything some tilting and rotating, but I think @Swampledge said it best when he asked if I need to monitor my neighbors drive. Is it useful if something happens at his house, sure, but I am not the neighborhood surveillance guy.

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Yep, I often feel like I should charge when my cameras help a neighbor out LOL. Or they could offer some cash LOL
 
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