Hikvision Camera Recommendation

[Daves88]

Hey there from Australia.

Just wondering if anyone could provide some feedback. Im currently building and will require 6-7 cams.

- 3 will be sitting on the eaves on the second floor facing down to the front, side and back yard.
- 3 will be sitting on the eaves on the ground floor facing the front and back doors.
- 1 will potentially be sitting in the garage.
- Units will be running off synology station.
- Viewing distance would be 5-10m tops
- Im chasing a blanced quality when viewing night and day.

I have had my eye on there two models however would appreciate some guidence if anyone has used them:

1) Hikvision DS-2CD2385FWD-I 8MP Outdoor Turret CCTV Camera 30m

2) Hikvision DS-2CD2H85FWD-IZS 8MP Outdoor Motorised VF Turret CCTV Camera

 

[SouthernYankee]

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Placing cameras on the eaves, are to high to identify the bad guy, Test, get a friend to wear a hoodie, baseball cap and sunglasses, walk face down, try to identify them.
8 MP cameras do not work at night.
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Please read the cliff notes and other items in the wiki. The wiki is in the blue bar at the top of the page.

Read How to Secure Your Network (Don't Get Hacked!) | IP Cam Talk in the wiki also.

Quick start
1) Use Dahua starlight cameras or Hikvision darkfighter cameras or ICPT Night eye cameras (https://store.ipcamtalk.com/) if you need good low light cameras.
2) use a VPN to access home network (openVPN)
3) Do not use wifi cameras.
4) Do not use cloud storage
5) Do Not use uPNP, P2P, QR, do not open ports,
6) More megapixel is not necessarily better.
7) Avoid chinese hacked cameras (most ebay, amazon, aliexpress cameras(not all, but most))
8) Do not use reolink, ring, nest cameras (they are junk)
9) If possible use a turret camera , bullet collect spiders, dome collect dirt and reflect light (IR)
10) Use only solid copper, AWG 23 or 24 ethernet wire. , no CCA (Copper Clad Aluminum)
11) use a test mount to verify the camera mount location. My test rig: rev.2
12) (Looney2ns)If you want to be able to ID faces, don't mount cams higher than 8ft. You want to know who did it, not just what happened.

Cameras to look at
IPC-HDW2231R-ZS
IPC-HDW5231-ZE
IPC-T5442TM-AS
IPCT-HDW5431RE-I
DS-2CD2325FWD-I


Read,study,plan before spending money ..... plan plan plan
Test do not guess