Good morning (or evening, depending on where you are!). I currently have a couple Starlight -HDW5231R-Z cams up and running. I am looking at picking up a mini-wedge HDBW4231F-AS for use as a front door cam (shaded, covered porch area). As others have tried to determine, should I go 2.8 or 3.6 since the mini wedge is a fixed lens.
So, I was going to do a little testing to at least "get close" to an idea on what each lens size would look like. I am going to take one of my current Starlights and temporarily mount it and test how it would look with each lens size by adjusting the zoom.
Now, getting an idea what a 2.8 would look like is easy, since the HDW5231R-Z is varifocal from 2.7 to 12mm. Just simply zoom all the way out, and that will give a pretty good idea what a 2.8 fixed would look like.
Now, trying to determine what a 3.6 would look like would be a little "tougher". By logging into the camera itself, how far should the slider be adjusted to simulate what 3.6mm would look like? At what point on the zoom would give a fairly accurate representation of what a 3.6mm lens would look like? When hovering the mouse cursor over the slider marker, a number appears (not sure what that number even means, but the further up the slider you go, the larger the number gets).
Just getting "close" is good enough for me. I know doing a test like this is "not perfect", but at least having an idea what a 3.6 would look like as far as coverage is better than no idea at all!
Thank you much!
So, I was going to do a little testing to at least "get close" to an idea on what each lens size would look like. I am going to take one of my current Starlights and temporarily mount it and test how it would look with each lens size by adjusting the zoom.
Now, getting an idea what a 2.8 would look like is easy, since the HDW5231R-Z is varifocal from 2.7 to 12mm. Just simply zoom all the way out, and that will give a pretty good idea what a 2.8 fixed would look like.
Now, trying to determine what a 3.6 would look like would be a little "tougher". By logging into the camera itself, how far should the slider be adjusted to simulate what 3.6mm would look like? At what point on the zoom would give a fairly accurate representation of what a 3.6mm lens would look like? When hovering the mouse cursor over the slider marker, a number appears (not sure what that number even means, but the further up the slider you go, the larger the number gets).
Just getting "close" is good enough for me. I know doing a test like this is "not perfect", but at least having an idea what a 3.6 would look like as far as coverage is better than no idea at all!
Thank you much!