PTZ's are basically toys....I was dead set on reading up on cameras on this forum, then when I was fully ignorant with snippets of information, I went out and got an Amazon 2mp PTZ made by Hikvision sold under another name.
It was the beginning of a long line of lessons about Ipcameras.
I had to cover a 74 unit Condo.....I thought I could watch the front parking lot with the PTZ....boy was I wrong.
I missed stuff.
crime happens at this address occasionally , sometimes from within, sometimes from visitors to the parking areas....
ended up with about 24-25 cameras. caught more idiots doing stupid shit. even residents denying they hit their neighbors car.....
one interesting observation.....The presence of Cameras in the garages and the laundry room, had a pleasant deterrent effect I had not expected.
People littered less in the garage, nastygrams on the community bulletin boards disappeared over night. People stopped putting garbage in the recycle bins. etc.....
I had no qualms about removing a violators trash and depositing it on the their door step. they took the hint.