Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

Thanks! Will fiddle with it all tonight. Part of the problem is that this is a light industrial park parking lot, so get very little nighttime traffic through these driveways. I had zoomed out so that I could plant my dummy plate in the dirt and focus on it while I'm not there. There really isn't a place in the choke point where I can leave a dummy plate (or vehicle) overnight and not block the several cars that do come through.

The cars in both shots are right about the same distance from the camera as is the dummy plate, but yeah, the exposure is all wrong.

I'll go full manual exposure first to see if I can get that right, and then creep the focus in or out a few ticks each night.

I've tried staying late at work and focusing on my own car while I'm sitting in the driveway, but there's a cellular hole right there, so it's really hard to connect to the camera. I really need another person to help me.
 
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Try a piece of reflective tape? and get it to focus on that as best you can. I stopped at a TA truckstop on the way home from the movies and happened to see the red/red/white Crash bar tape for trailers. grabbed that sucker and snipped off a piece and tacked it to a telephone pole , then when i got the Z4e I tacked a piece to a tree. then I played around with zoom and focus and shutter and Gain. In my situation, I didn't plan on the Z4's to capture plates, but rather i stumbled upon the capability of this camera just fooling around. In bad weather with salty icy plates, i can start to miss a significant mount of night plates. and even some day plates. But most days it hits 98% or so. and the other two cams will help get a vehicle description if the plate fails.
I learned this tip from another forum user who was sticking the tape to a curb in the area of interest and nobody was the wiser.

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Try a piece of reflective tape? and get it to focus on that as best you can. I stopped at a TA truckstop on the way home the movies and happened to see the red/red/white Crash bar tape for trailers. grabbed that sucker and snipped off a piece and tacked it to a telephone pole , then when i got the Z4e I tacked a piece to a tree.
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Great idea! I wonder if I can find some of those temporary reflective traffic guides that they use in construction zones. They're like two 2" x 2" plastic squares joined along one edge at a 90-degree angle, so they "pop up" into traffic, but they fold down when you drive over them.

I'm not finding these on amazon, probably because I'm using the wrong vocabulary.

Edit: It's called a Temporary Overlay Marker (TOM) or Chip Seal Marker or TRPM. I just ordered a handful for about $2/each, shipped

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