A few more captures (Car break in's and shitty loitering truck)

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Had this suspicious truck sitting outside for 45 mins, with a fake and expired plate. Of course as soon as security arrives, they leave.





Looked up the plate, and




Then these guys breaking into cars. The third clip is the actual break in if you want to skip the fluff. They break the back window of a car, then hop the fence of a gated townhome community and go through cars in there

 

[TonyR]

Young cockroaches....that fence isn't much good either.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Funnily enough they never even looked down my driveway, and my neighbor around the corner parks his new RAM 2500 in his driveway with no gate, never so much as looked at it

I wonder if they know the risk of targeting a homeowner

 

[TonyR]

I wonder if they know the risk of targeting a homeowner

....in Texas.

 

[Vansmak]

Had this suspicious truck sitting outside for 45 mins, with a fake and expired plate. Of course as soon as security arrives, they leave.

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Then these guys breaking into cars. The third clip is the actual break in if you want to skip the fluff. They break the back window of a car, then hop the fence of a gated townhome community and go through cars in there

Which camera captured this plate from that distance, was that the 5442? I'm impressed with that level of zoom....not to mention you really have them dialed in well @ night. Very nice!

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Which camera captured this plate from that distance, was that the 5442? I'm impressed with that level of zoom....not to mention you really have them dialed in well @ night. Very nice!

No, its the HFW5241E-Z12E, love them!

Here is a night shot of a plate

 

[Vansmak]

No, its the HFW5241E-Z12E, love them!

Here is a night shot of a plate

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That's really impressive, although I'm guessing you have a couple pointed in the same direction, one with a wide angle and another zoomed in? I can't imagine picking up these images on the wide angle shot?

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Yeah, I have a dedicated LPR cam in each direction. They are good for not much else but LPR. A few times still has happened directly in shot of the LPR cam which was useful, but lucky

Some day samples

 

[wittaj]

That's really impressive, although I'm guessing you have a couple pointed in the same direction, one with a wide angle and another zoomed in? I can't imagine picking up these images on the wide angle shot?

The biggest mistake people make is trying to use a wide angle overview camera to read plates and then get upset when they can't do like in the movies and digital zoom in to read the plates. It just doesn't work that way.

This is a camera dedicated to plates and not an overview camera also. It is as much an art as it is a science. You will need two cameras.

As you can see above, for LPR we need to zoom in tight to make the plate as large as possible. For most of us, all you see is the not much more than a vehicle in the entire frame. Now maybe in the right location during the day it might be able to see some other things, but not at night.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Also prepared to be disappointed at first, and spend a good number of hours tweaking to get it right. But once you get things dialed in, its pretty much a set it and forget it situation other than normal things like making sure the cameras are focused correctly every 6 months or so, and cleaning the lenses.

These cams are zoomed in around 110ft each

 

[wittaj]

Here is a representative sample of plates I get at night with a 1/2,000 shutter and 8 FPS of vehicles traveling about 45MPH at 175 feet from my Z12E that is on the 2nd story soffit, My angle is about 40 degrees vertical, 50 degrees horizontal. Camera is 35 feet above street at this location.

 

[RUMBLESTRIP]

Here is a representative sample of plates I get at night with a 1/2,000 shutter and 8 FPS of vehicles traveling about 45MPH at 175 feet from my Z12E that is on the 2nd story soffit, My angle is about 40 degrees vertical, 50 degrees horizontal. Camera is 35 feet above street at this location.

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What does the "40 degree vertical" mean? I initially thought that was the camera height to the plate angle, but 175' away and 35' up is 11 degrees.

 

[looney2ns]

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