I'm trying to figure out whether the mount of a turret camera gives enough range of motion to essentially turn it 90 degrees or even a bit more than that.
I'm prewiring a house and the front has the paved approach to the front door. Let's say walking up and facing the door is North. To the east is a column that is integrated into the side of the house. To the west is a column with all four walls exposed. My initial plan was to put a a camera centered on the south wall of that column (so you'd be staring at the camera the entire walk up to the porch). But I decided that it would look terrible. Just a super obvious camera sort of plopped on the wall of a column staring at you. So instead, I plan on having the wiring be placed on the west wall. Essentially, if I put a turret camera there and pointed it straight outwards, it'd be looking at the neighbor to my left.
Now I actually want that camera to point towards the approach. So I figure the mount makes the camera stick out a bit. Is the pivot point enough to turn that camera to be 90 to 100 degrees to face the approach walkway?
Would a bullet camera be able to cover this? If the mount pivot isn't good enough to turn the camera 90-100 degrees, I'd probably try to install a bullet camera there instead. I just find bullet cameras a bit unsightly once the junction box is also installed.
If it helps, I will most likely be using Reolink or Dahua cameras.
I'm prewiring a house and the front has the paved approach to the front door. Let's say walking up and facing the door is North. To the east is a column that is integrated into the side of the house. To the west is a column with all four walls exposed. My initial plan was to put a a camera centered on the south wall of that column (so you'd be staring at the camera the entire walk up to the porch). But I decided that it would look terrible. Just a super obvious camera sort of plopped on the wall of a column staring at you. So instead, I plan on having the wiring be placed on the west wall. Essentially, if I put a turret camera there and pointed it straight outwards, it'd be looking at the neighbor to my left.
Now I actually want that camera to point towards the approach. So I figure the mount makes the camera stick out a bit. Is the pivot point enough to turn that camera to be 90 to 100 degrees to face the approach walkway?
Would a bullet camera be able to cover this? If the mount pivot isn't good enough to turn the camera 90-100 degrees, I'd probably try to install a bullet camera there instead. I just find bullet cameras a bit unsightly once the junction box is also installed.
If it helps, I will most likely be using Reolink or Dahua cameras.
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