Thanks for the reply. I currently have ten outdoor cams with two more to be installed and two LPR cams to be installed just as soon as I can figure out how to get the
Cat5e from the attic to the front porch. I have a mix of crossing cams on the driveway, wide angle view cams covering the front and side yards and four cams at the front door. I agree with you on having a mix of cams and fields of view. I only have one cam that goes to IR at night outside.
The reason I am so interested in your review is that I am considering yet another cam that will augment the two LPR cams at night. Specifically zoomed in to the T-intersection for the sole purpose of getting color and make/model of vehicles at night that my other overview cams can't get a good enough capture for that purpose.
We had an incident a week ago where some guy in a pick up pulled into the driveway of a neighbor and stole his tailgate. It took about 5 minutes at about 3:00am. I have the whole thing on one of my overview cams. But since this was so far away, the best I could do was to get a color and a few observations on the guy's pickup, but no make/model. And those observations (like no front plate) were mostly from other cams that picked him up as he drove by my house. I don't have the LPR cams installed yet. I felt really bad that I could not give him more info and the police asked me for footage since I have given them good footage in the past, one that allowed them to ID a perp and charge him.
I recently swapped out a 5231 varifocal turret that I had in my driveway for the T5442 in 6mm. I did a test using that varifocal the other night on the T-intersection and was not happy with the result. I also tested a
T5442 in 2.8mm that I have yet to install in it's final position. While the 2.8mm FOV was obviously not the right FOV for the task, the color recording was much better than the 5231 varifocal. So now I am leaning towards getting the B5442 Z4E for that position. That does mean I now have to run five wires not four from the attic to the porch!
I like your reviews, especially the POE ones. I almost pulled the trigger on one of your POEs for the above job, but decided that maybe the B5442 Z4E would be less creepy looking from folks walking by the house on the corner.