WOW there is so much dis-information coming from you guys. Please stop acting like you have installed thousands of cameras. WE HAVE INSTALLED 1000's OF CAMERAS, IN FACT WE SELL OVER 30,000 CAMERAS A YEAR. I've been in the security industry 34 years and sold over $160 million worth of CCTV products and systems. If I were just staring out...I would follow my advice rather than the uninformed advice provided here. You keep making false statements about the information we freely provide for the DIY market.
Anyone reading this, be assured: YES you can get faces and plates up to 60 feet from the camera, we do it all the time. With 4K and digital zoom you can get the performance I am stating, Attached is a pic from a actual install/car wreck at 50 feet from the camera using digital zoom. The 4K cameras provide enough pixels you can digitally zoom into the video and ID people at 60 feet. If you can clearly ID the person in the image at 50 feet, an additional 10 feet will not effect the out come. Either the people posting here are uniformed or are using or selling cheap substandard equipment. I suggest buying better equipment and stop spreading disinformation...YOU'RE NOT HELPING ANYONE!
It gets old seeing weekend techs act like they have extensive real world experience. So readers can put a value to your posts, please provide your resume of experience so we all can put a value to your comments. I know this posting is a bit salty and will piss off the arm chair techs, but seriously stop acting like you know, and stop tearing down the hard work of others who actually know from real world experience. We have over 27,000 YouTube subscribers and not one is saying the lazy half baked comments I see here. Here is My Resume:
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What is the camera model, focal length, price, and specs (sensor size)?
Never mind I was able to find the
original video. It claims it is the Pro90D, which is a
3.6mm 8MP on a 1/2.5" sensor with a 0.1 LUX rating. Less than an ideal MP/sensor ratio with a horrible LUX rating. Retails for $299 but is on sale for $212. WOW what a bargain. On the plus side it is NDAA compliant.
But that doesn't look to me to be 50 feet away from the camera like he claims. Maybe 20 feet. Camera is pretty high too.
Further look at the amount of light that camera has. How many lumens is that floodlight directly over the top of the scene?
And then his digital zoom:
Where are the examples of plates at 60 feet from a 3.6mm 4K camera digitally zoomed from night time with the vehicle in motion (preferably 25MPH or faster) in an area with little light?"
Your ONE example has quite a bit of light there and the subjects were not really moving at that time either. Sure under ideal conditions maybe a camera with some digital zoom would work, but it will be more miss than hit.
Every example you show or what I have seen from your website seems to have lots of light at night.
Most of us don't have that kind of light.
Show us some examples on subdivision streets with no streetlights. That is what we are interested in. Samples from commercial sites with lots of light is a useless comparison to a homeowner situation.
So yes, I think our real world examples in subdivisions with our own cameras qualifies
"as the hard work of others who actually know from real world experience." Our captures have put people in jail and/or arrested.
From our
thread of images caught with better cameras we have this gem from 2017 with an old analog camera:
And these from a 2MP varifocal camera at 60+ feet away horizontally from the camera and light source and nowhere near the light you have in the example provided:
I think most will say these images from cameras made prior to 2020 are better than what I assume you provided was your best example, which as I pointed out I don't think that was 50 feet away from the camera plus it had some ideal light.
So again, prove to us your 3.6mm 8MP cameras can do IDENTIFY quality of people and plates at 60 feet in an area without a lot of light. Not 20 feet, 60 feet like you claim. We will wait....
