In between the rain showers today I was able to install the Sunba camera. Here are a couple of screen captures taken with
Blue Iris. Tomorrow I will record a demo video and post a link to it in this thread. In the first picture the Sunba zoom level is set to zero. In the second picture the camera zoom level is at it's maximum 20. The car in the picture is located 564 feet (172 meters) from the camera according to Google Maps. I don't see any blurry sections in the image as far as I can tell. In my 2 Huisun cameras I do see blurry sections on the left side of the image on both cameras.
The only thing negative thing I can say about the camera is the tilt ability. Tilt is from zero to 90 degrees down. You will want to install this camera as high as possible. I installed this camera about 5 feet higher than the Huisun. At the higher zoom levels it cannot see the houses located at the top of the hill you see in the picture. Same thing when I point the camera downtown to look at the buildings. I can only see them up to a certain zoom level. I left a message for the seller asking if the camera had any setting to adjust this. I checked the listed special presets that the camera documentation had (including Preset 95) and didn't see any setting. If there is no setting, I'm wondering if you could maybe add some metal washers or some type of wedge at the bottom of the camera's mounting bracket to maybe tilt the camera up slightly. Anyway, we'll see what the seller says and I will post about it here.
As you might guess, playing with this camera is a lot of fun. This camera was purchased to mainly enjoy the view from our house up on this hill. There are a lot of places I can point the camera to and zoom in. At night, I found that it is better to turn off the IR lights as the night vision gets blinded with all the street lights below our house. You can see more details with items that have their own light at night if the camera is in day mode than the night mode. It looks like at night when I'm done playing with the camera, I'll switch it back to night mode and point it at the far end of our deck. I have a 12mm Hikvision pointed at the far end of the deck, and the Sunba will give me a much wider and longer view of the deck. We do get critters at night. Last month we had a coyote walk the complete length of our deck and then it turned around and walked back. A few months before that we had a curious deer walk about half the length of the deck before it turned around and walked back.
That's it for now. Look for a video post tomorrow.
Looking at the pictures below, it looks like image host resized the zoom at zero picture...sorry about that.
Zoom at zero
Zoom at 20X