+1 above.
That Reolink would NEVER meet your needs at that distance.
See this thread for the commonly recommended cameras (along with Amazon links) based on distance to IDENTIFY that represent the overall best value in terms of price and performance day and night.
The Importance of Focal Length over MP in camera selection
Just because something is popular with the general public doesn't mean it is good.
If you want it done right, you will want a VMS system like an NVR or PC/BI combo to go along with the proper focal length camera for the distance you want to IDENTIFY. Anything cloud based will fail you as it either records on motion only or wifi cannot keep up and it is a pixelated mess.
We have an entire thread showing the fails of the Nest, Ring, etc., or basically all of the popular cameras one can buy at the big box store:
Love these posts on Nextdoor type apps LOL. This thread will be used for members to post the poor quality consumer grade type camera images that we see people post to the Nextdoor type apps. Can anyone make out this person that went thru their cars LOL.... And this thread is where members...
ipcamtalk.com
Reolink does a very good job of still images. But at night perps are a complete motion blur with missing body parts LOL....
What you mean a missing hand isn't normal LOL :lmao (plus look at the blur on the face and he is barely moving and this should be ideal indoor IR bounce and it struggles):
How about missing everything but the blur of a head and upper torso
The invisible man, where can he be. Thank goodness he is carrying around a reflective plate to see where he is LOL (
hint - the person is literally in the middle of the image at the end of the fence where that rectangular reflective plate is that he is carrying around)
I've seen better images on an episode of ghost hunters
And of course, this is an example from Reolink's marketing videos - do you see a person in this picture...yes, there is a person in this picture....
Could this provide anything useful for the police other than the date and time something happened? Would this protect your home? The still picture looks great though except for the person and the blur of the vehicle... Will give you a hint - the person is in between the two visible columns:
Bad Boys
Bad Boys
Watcha gonna do
Watcha gonna do
When the camera can't see you
Here is the unofficial Reolink thread. It is documented in that thread as well the issues that BI has with Reolink cameras.
You can see all the attempts people have provided to demonstrate the quality of Reolink, and they are all a blurry mess at night or missing body parts or other messes.
We have challenged folks to provide a clean capture of someone moving at night with a Reolink and as you can see with over 20 pages, nobody has yet to provide a usable image with motion at night.
Reolink's algorithm is designed to produce a nice bright static image at night and that comes at a cost of blur and ghost and missing body parts at night.
Reolink: Deconstruction of a dangerous misleading youtube review "Finding the BEST 4K Security Camera NVR Package (Reolink vs Amcrest vs Swann)"