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    Worst PTZ you own but dont want to remove

    Btw, what would make this PTZ great is scene modes applied to specific presets, so when the camera goes to LP zoom preset it shifts to my LP shutter mode 1/1500 or so. This way one can use the camera both for general wide motion detection and LP reading... all at night. This is of course if the...
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    Worst PTZ you own but dont want to remove

    @Revo2Maxx thanks. @wittaj you may not remember but we talked about this in another thread. I tried some good settings and managed to almost get visible license plates at night. See here: https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/convince-me-reolink-is-bad-to-buy.80215/post-905006 In fact, I have a...
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    Worst PTZ you own but dont want to remove

    Well folks. Three months after putting the PTZ425DB-AT, it captured a burglary event at my front neighbor. A car came around two times, one time to check his mailbox and another to drop two masked guys which went on the back of his house and broke the door. Police came and saw the recording, but...
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Thanks for the advice @wittaj . Helpful as usual.
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Is this supposed to be some sarcastic joke? It's easy to fill the need to gang up with cheap jokes. What's difficult these days is for people to talk normally with thoughts that span beyond the 3 second attention span learned from tic toc. Btw, I tested the camera in white light, and still has...
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Flickers are random, so would need to keep the camera out for a while. It is also crazy cold now outside, it would cost more to reheat the house with a window open than this camera costed :)
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Alright, trying it without IR light, just white light, still in basement. Will have to decide next steps after that. Yes, I can try outside, but it means taking off another existing camera because I don't have free Ethernet cables. Trying it indoors behind a window will be problematic for IR...
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    The only settings I really changed was the frame rate and i-frame both at 15fps. The other stuff I may changed but put back to default later, the main try being the WDR. Video below shows the settings. I am not keen to test this camera outside because it needs non-trivial work to mount...
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Sorry to contradict you @wittaj but I flipped the camera upside down and that left camera still keeps flickering even though it is now pointing in the other direction. And the right camera has no flicker. Here is the video.
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Which one you suggest? The good 1/1.8 sensor has a distorted aspect ratio that I don't like, and costs 3-4 times this one from ANNKE. On top of that, the Empiretech has no IR or light, just external lighting. So, this cheaper ANNKE was not that bad on paper.
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    @wittaj there is nothing moving or changing, not even bugs. Why would the camera try to adjust when nothing changes? I can flip the camera upside down to see if that side still continues to flicker when on the other side.
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Ok, I bought the FCD600 from ANNKE, and turned out to be faulty. I set it up for testing purposes for a couple of days in a basement. The left camera has some sort of random flicker that triggers the basic motion detection. I have not tried putting the camera out to detect humans and cars...
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Hoe about this Hikvision one? Anyone owns it?
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    Is the HIKVISION DS-2CD2387G2P-LSU/S a good 180 option? Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTM4WMF9/?coliid=I2DTF9IFIH6MMA&colid=1E7S5PPT4AM5U&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it Is this the same as ANKEE NCD800?
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    Which 180 degree camera to pick + other questions

    So the more expensive Z12E has an older chipset (S2) than the less expensive Z4E (S3), right?
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