Hi,
I want to install a turret camera (Dahua IPC-T5442TM-AS) on front wall of my garage. Before looking at the manual, I had imagine it would be installed like this image, flat against the wall of the garage siding. I'm stealing this image from a websearch, but I imagine something like this:

But when I look through the manual at mounting hardware, the suggested "wall mount" makes the camera stick out instead of flat against a wall.

I'm pretty new to this. The mounting method I thought looked the best is actually the "ceiling mount", where the camera is flush against the surface and sticks out the least from the wall. Can the Dahua turret camera can be mounted as a ceiling mount, but just on a wall instead? Are there issues with water ingress when mounted this way? Does the camera need to be "upside down" as shown to be totally water proof if I don't have an eve to put it under? Is there enough adjustment to face the camera down the driveway if it's mounted on a vertical surface?
Note: I have full access to the inside wall of the garage, so I'll be running the wire through the wall from the inside to a hole to the outside, if that makes sense.
This is the garage wall where I was thinking of mounting it. My house is on the right side of the picture here, so the camera would catch the back entrance as well as down the driveway approach. It's a longish driveway. I'm a little worried that my left side neighbor's bushes might catch a lot of the IR light and be really bright, so we'll see. I'm tempted to mount the camera lower so the sun isn't shining right into the camera for later parts of the afternoon, where the bushes create some shade.
Besides the water ingress issue, I'm also not sure if the turret is flexible enough to be rotated so I can actually see down the driveway if the mounting surface is orientated against the wall.

Edit: While searching more on the forum, I found this wall mounted turret, just like how I want to do it. But they seem to use a junction box. I don't understand why they used a junction box here instead of mounting the camera straight into the wall? I thought a junction box is used if you're running wire on the outside of the wall (instead of straight through from the inside) and need some room to turn the connector?

I want to install a turret camera (Dahua IPC-T5442TM-AS) on front wall of my garage. Before looking at the manual, I had imagine it would be installed like this image, flat against the wall of the garage siding. I'm stealing this image from a websearch, but I imagine something like this:

But when I look through the manual at mounting hardware, the suggested "wall mount" makes the camera stick out instead of flat against a wall.

I'm pretty new to this. The mounting method I thought looked the best is actually the "ceiling mount", where the camera is flush against the surface and sticks out the least from the wall. Can the Dahua turret camera can be mounted as a ceiling mount, but just on a wall instead? Are there issues with water ingress when mounted this way? Does the camera need to be "upside down" as shown to be totally water proof if I don't have an eve to put it under? Is there enough adjustment to face the camera down the driveway if it's mounted on a vertical surface?
Note: I have full access to the inside wall of the garage, so I'll be running the wire through the wall from the inside to a hole to the outside, if that makes sense.
This is the garage wall where I was thinking of mounting it. My house is on the right side of the picture here, so the camera would catch the back entrance as well as down the driveway approach. It's a longish driveway. I'm a little worried that my left side neighbor's bushes might catch a lot of the IR light and be really bright, so we'll see. I'm tempted to mount the camera lower so the sun isn't shining right into the camera for later parts of the afternoon, where the bushes create some shade.
Besides the water ingress issue, I'm also not sure if the turret is flexible enough to be rotated so I can actually see down the driveway if the mounting surface is orientated against the wall.

Edit: While searching more on the forum, I found this wall mounted turret, just like how I want to do it. But they seem to use a junction box. I don't understand why they used a junction box here instead of mounting the camera straight into the wall? I thought a junction box is used if you're running wire on the outside of the wall (instead of straight through from the inside) and need some room to turn the connector?

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