First Time IP Camera User

[spixel]

That Amcrest picture looks pretty good but it's a shame for it's price that there's no optical zoom.

 

[jerrysimon]

Agreed optical zoom would be the icing on the cake. I have the bug and now looking at one of these for outside

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CCTV-PTZ-IP-CAMERA-Bullet-10-x-zoom-2MP-2-Mega-Pixel-CCTV-HD-CAMERA-HIGH-Quality-/191799189854?hash=item2ca81f615e:g:p-EAAOSwzhVWs3qG

Reading the huge thread on here.

Jerry

 

[Kawboy12R]

No doubt that the Annke picture is way behind the Amcrest picture but we aren't comparing apples to oranges here. Look at the file sizes. HUGE difference between the 68K Annke and the 1.5 meg Amcrest pictures that isn't taken into account by the resolution difference. Is the quality/bitrate turned way down and/or JPEG compression turned way up on the Annke somehow? If that's the best it can do then I guess it was a design decision rather than just having some changeable settings kill the picture quality.

 

[jerrysimon]

Good point. I have packed up the ANNKE to return now so cant check. The pics pretty much look how they appear on the live stream. As I said the Amcrest outputs to BMP over the ANNKE's JPEG and was, I think, over 3-4MB in size before I converted it down to the JPEG at 1.5MB.

Jerry

 

[Kawboy12R]

Not much point if it is packed up but 68k is sized like a crappy postage stamp even for 720p rather than you not compressing the BMP enough. Good you found something you like that's working for you. Got any night pictures?

 

[jerrysimon]

I will try and do one tonight. I forgot to set the ANNKE back to factory defaults so will check it again when I do that.

Jerry

 

[jerrysimon]

Ok did this in a hurry. 750K JPEG image from the Amcrest in pitch black with camera IR lit. Probably not as good as I would have hoped. Maybe I need to change some settings ?



:redface-new:

Actually looking at other camera night shots its not terrible.

I tried the ANNKE again and the software is terrible after using the Amcrest. Tried another picture and no way to change the snapshot sizes, overall very few setting options.

I set it back to factory settings and packed it up ready to ship back Amazon



Jerry