Reolink Duo / Dual-Lens 150° FOV, 4MP/2K : review of nighttime image captures by securitybros

[mat200]

securitybros on Youtube reviewed the following on Sep 18, 2021

REOLINK PoE Security Camera Outdoor System, IP Camera with Dual-Lens 150° FOV, Smart Human/Vehicle Detection, 4MP/2K Color Night Vision, Two Way Talk, Up to 256GB Micro SD Card, Reolink Duo PoE

I will take a few screen shots of some key image captures for illustrative purposes .. I do not plan to review his entire commentary. ( note, often I have posted similar Reolink topics in the Chit Chat section .. feel free to search for more of these .. )





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update:
One of the main Reolink threads here:

Reolink: Deconstruction of a dangerous misleading youtube review "Finding the BEST 4K Security Camera NVR Package (Reolink vs Amcrest vs Swann)"

Executive Summary: DO NOT be a sheep. Ask what a reviewer can be missing, ask if a reviewer is using hype words to sell the cheapest product. Test your cameras and kits right away. Just do a bench test. Test real world conditions. Test moving suspects. Test at night, test at day. Use a test rig...

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[mat200]

Night time, low light with IR ..

Notice moving objects vs still objects .. can you read what is on his shirt ?





Spot light turns on ..








Back to IR mode ..

 

[sebastiantombs]

Reolink, once a POS always a POS.

 

[Mark_M]

The biggest issue I have with this camera is that there is no benefit to this vs a dual sensor camera like the 'boobie cam'.
Look at each camera angle, those are awful angles with soo much space wasted. Better off buying a dual sensor camera where both cameras can articulate for a better viewing angle.


The Hikvison/Dahua version at least stitches the video together to make it worthwhile being two imaging sensors at fixed angles.

 

[TonyR]

Painful....lost one of his feet and most of his leg here:

 

[looney2ns]

The guy sounds like the old Microsoft text to speech synthesizer from win 95.

 

[wittaj]

As always, thanks for taking the time to dissect these!

And wow that has to be some of the worse color static images we have seen recently from a Reolink. Usually their static image is good, but the motion is poor at night. That just looks horrible.

 

[jayden.donaldson]

Hope no one bought it just because it was $95

 

[wittaj]

Oh we already have people here that bought it and it works worse in Blue Iris than the other Reolinks - it keeps losing signal.

 

[Griswalduk]

Night time, low light with IR ..

Notice moving objects vs still objects .. can you read what is on his shirt ?

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Spot light turns on ..

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Back to IR mode ..

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Great captures as always. A picture speaks a thousand words

 

[teredactle]

The Hikvison/Dahua version at least stitches the video together to make it worthwhile being two imaging sensors at fixed angles.

Hi Mark, are you referring to this? IPC-HDBW5441F-AS-E2
So one using BI could get a single stream with a combined video from both lenses?

 

[Mark_M]

Hi Mark, are you referring to this? IPC-HDBW5441F-AS-E2
So one using BI could get a single stream with a combined video from both lenses?

That camera is two individual streams. That is logical because the lenses are not hard fixed into position.

I'm comparing to the new [Hikvision] DS-2CD2T87G2P-LSU/SL and [Dahua] PFW5849-A180-ASTE which is a fixed position dual lens camera like the Reolink Duo.

This is the Dahua version which stitches the video into one:

Bullet 180 degress camera is out now.

(Photo from @EMPIRETECANDY )

 

[T_Tronix]

So which one of these dual cameras works best in BlueIris? Was looking at installing one infront. Was eyeing the hikvision ds-2cd2387g2p.

 

[mat200]

So which one of these dual cameras works best in BlueIris? Was looking at installing one infront. Was eyeing the hikvision ds-2cd2387g2p.

Hi @T_Tronix

The Dahua OEM or Hikvision OEM models should work better by significant margins vs Reolink ..

 

[T_Tronix]

Do you think the new Reolink Duo 2 give the same issues?

 

[Mark_M]

Do you think the new Reolink Duo 2 give the same issues?

Reolink are made to consumer grade and a cheap price.
Basically everything they make is cheap quality.

 

[mat200]

Do you think the new Reolink Duo 2 give the same issues?

Reolink still puts in small sensors .. so yes I do expect issues ..

 

[looney2ns]

Do you think the new Reolink Duo 2 give the same issues?

Reolink simply can't be trusted.

 

[mat200]

Reportedly a Reolink DUO and trackmix as well as other cameras used in this real world image capture ..
notice, the ghosting on the moving subject ..

Guy catches package thief, clearly needs more cameras

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