I have read that motion lights are a deterrent
I don't really agree with that statement. It obviously did not faze this guy. In the video that was posted on Ring, he is running towards the driveway, the lights come on, and he continues running. A couple of weeks ago, the guy right next door to the guy with the Ring cam had his tailgate taken off of his pickup truck in his driveway. The perp first parked on the street, a motion spot came on, he then backed up his truck onto the guys driveway and spent the next 5 minutes getting the tailgate off. One of my wide angle overview cams of the intersection caught it, but the scene is too far away to give any info on the guy, just color of the truck and a few other points.
I think that the more light you have, the less of a chance you have of being a victim. But motion lights do not fool anyone. The original idea was that if the light came on, the perp would think that someone has seen them and turned the light on. But they all know now that it is just a motion activated light. I prefer to have good lighting on all night. In the shot from the Ring cam, you can see my house across the street an see how much lighting I have there.
That cam is a Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE. It is a 2MP varifocal turret cam with a 1/2.8" sensor and was the top dog when I got it back in 2018. I was not totally happy with that image of the guy as I felt that it had some motion blur. I have since replaced it with a Dahua
IPC-T5442TM-AS fixed lens in 6mm turret. It is a 4MP cam on a 1/1.8" sensor and is now the top dog in the prosumer line. They make a varifocal version (IPC-HDW5445T-ZE) that has just been tested in this forum.
All @EMPIRETECANDY kindly provided 1 of these units for testing and I specifically wanted to focus on 1 area, night captures and IR as I know a number of people have been interested in understanding how this compares to the fixed lens variants in this respect and have been wanting a 4MP vari to...
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