Nothing special, just thought it was funny. I wasn't home at the time. My camera happened to capture a still at just the right time. Maybe he's thinking, "if I do balancing tricks with my sales binder, they will talk to me...?"
door-to-door salesguy talents
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Fastb
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Maybe he was told to "balance your books!"
Picture quality is amazing what camera is this ??? You have nice zoom on it
That is the cheapest Dahua IP camera I've seen of its kind, a 4MP turret type IPC-HDW4431C-A which is the "international" version (hacked firmware for English language) non-upgradeable, you take your chances. Comes stock with a fixed wide-angle lens. I took it apart and replaced the lens with a longer 12mm lens (so I had to break out the glass to fit the case back together). I should probably have just spent another $40 and got the slightly larger 4MP bullet varifocal model which would do the same job more cleanly, but I'm just cheap that way. It does show the value of getting the right lens focal length, if you can assume visitors will walk along the walkway so you can get relatively tight framing.
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Parley
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That's funny. IMHO what sets the cameras apart is how good of a picture can you get after the sun goes down.
The cheap Dahua is nothing special after dark, as you can see (this is even with an additional 20W white LED flood). The Dahua "Starlight" series is definitely better at night, although of course somewhat more expensive. I have several of each kind for various purposes. I don't rely on this one for night-time ID.
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Matt L.
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Nice touch retrofitting a 12mm lens! Real RETRO.
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Young man was spinning the 3-ring binder on his finger which is relatively easy due to the grippy plastic cover on the binder. Gets a lot of practice going door-to-door. May have started as the guy who flips the advertising signs while waving to cars in front of the strip mall.