Halloween thief

[mb520205]

1:45 am this guy parks then walks right up and steals a ghost from the yard then drives off. Pretty sure this is the same guy breaking into cars in the neighborhood.

 

[Parley]

Shopping after midnight. What size lens is on your camera?

 

[mb520205]

128° Ultra-Wide Angle. It's a great camera. I am using blueiris software for recording along with 2 Nest cams

http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-home/home-monitoring/cameras/smartcam-hd-outdoor-1080p-full-hd-wifi-camera-snh-e6440bn/

 

[arw01]

Well at least you can tell the neighbor when the ghost left, and that it was a 4 door sedan, and that is about it.

I sent back my 2.8mm and 4mm is too wide too.

 

[nayr]

agreed, wide angle lenses are mostly useless for security purposes.. go check out http://ipvm.com/calculator, once your PPF goes under 100 your not getting an ID.

 

[fenderman]

Well at least you can tell the neighbor when the ghost left, and that it was a 4 door sedan, and that is about it.

I sent back my 2.8mm and 4mm is too wide too.

Dont know anyone who sets up their cams with their neighbors interests in mind...that would be silly..

 

[nayr]

true that @fenderman, but had it been in his own yard I dont believe the results would have been any better than this either.. 128 degree 1080p means over 5ft away and your under 100ppf... at 35ft he's at 15ppf

 

[Kawboy12R]

Wide angles like that are better for snooping on the neighbours than IDing jerks in your own yard. Great situational awareness in combination with dedicated driveway and door cams with longer lenses but, unless you catch the guy before he leaves, they're useless for facial ID if that's all you've got. All his lawyer has to say is that yep, that guy resembles my client but isn't him.

Right now, I've zoomed out one driveway cam so I can see the whole front of my house while I'm waiting for someone and Blue Iris has that one camera's window sitting on my desktop on top of all other windows. Great for telling me what's going on at roughly 3.something mm but it'll be back at about 6mm for more pixels on target where the car gets parked as soon as they arrive. It's tempting to leave them like that because "I can see everything!" until you actually need to see some detail and you blow up a guy's face to a blurry pixelated mess.