Sorry I don't know where to pick one up in your area. However to be honest, camera being 7 years old there are better options out there if your wanting to capture plates. Either way the options are not going to be cheap. I would just look in your market for a camera that would fit your needs. If
Uniview is an option in your area then sure if that is what you want to buy.
For me in my area if I was in the market for a ANPR I would look at the Dahua or Amcrest 5x50mm white LED camera. Or Dual LED 8x32mm one in a bullet large format factor and the other in a larger format that has different mount options.. Both are about smae price at Amcrest just under 800 USD. I don't know what or where it would be in your area.. Again Dahua makes the camera. One of the reasons I personally like Amcrest is because they have been in business for years after splitting with Foscam and they own the brand. What I mean is they have Mac Addresses that are under their name and the WebUI has Amcrest in the Browser and don't just show a generic Ip Camera and Dahua Mac Addresses like some other OEM Dahua companies. I mean sure I own some IC-Realtime products that if you do a search for the Mac address it shows IC-Realtime owns it. But the camera housing the Ip Camera name rather then spending a little extra for what I feel is Proud Company badging.. Plus Amcrest name on the camera outside as well. Again not just showing a Generic Ip Camera.. Back years ago when something new was coming out businesses would get Product Samples that would not have name of company or Mac addresses of your company just offer IP Camera in WebUI and box, body branding as a way to know it was a product sample. So when I pay good money for a camera if I turn it on and See IP Camera in WebUI I feel like I got Ripped off.. So yeah I have a few cameras that show IP Camera that I paid more then I wish I had. But I needed them for a project and couldn't find anything from Amcrest at the time with the options I needed also Dahua offering was double what I paid. However now seems like the last couple of years that isn't the same. Now almost feels like Dahua is lower in cost then Amcrest or some other. Like my MD180 from Amcrest was over 900 USD when I bought it, Now no longer in stock and I see other places that offer for 1/2 the price and maybe even better options. Oh well.. Live and learn again something I needed for one of my locations. It is working doing what it was designed to do..
In theory same can be said for
Uniview. There is some hardware out there that I paid top dollar for and a year later I found same hardware under different brand that is the same thing just 1/2 the cost lol. However now I am finding the costly bullet from
Uniview for less then 1/2 of what I paid when it first came out and again needed for one of my Properties for a fixed reason so yeah I paid extra at the time. Year after I now wish I hadn't lol. Do a search for a Sharpshooter 4.0 that camera is same as another
Uniview camera that has huge lens.. Awesome camera with presets in a Bullet zoom camera.. Only company I know of right now that offers such an option and one reason I am still using some Analog zoom cameras because they offer presets not just zoom and focus but holding presets.. SO at the time thought the
Uniview was worth the price.. Just saying lol..
Your experiences are much different than most here.....maybe we are doing it wrong LOL.
Nobody here would suggest an Amcrest white LED for LPR - while we would love to capture color plates, we don't want to blind drivers either.
Everybody here recommends infrared for LPR at night simply because most here do not have enough white light to capture plates in color.
Are you saying you are using a white LED camera to capture plates? Please provide some examples.
Most of us consider Amcrest (made by Dahua) to be the lower end consumer brand camera that uses cheaper materials and internals such as shoving higher MP on sensors designed for lower MP. They do offer a 1-800 number though, although most of us here know more than the rep on the other end simply going down a checklist sheet.
And the few times that Amcrest does provide the exact same Dahua model, it is usually 2-3 times the cost of the the camera offered by trusted member Empiretech here.
Empiretech (Andy) sells International Dahua cameras, most of the time without the logo. Depending on where you live, we get them 2-5 times cheaper than the cost of a camera with the Dahua logo on it because we don't have to pay authorized dealer markups.
I paint my cameras, so I don't care about the logo.
But if you are that over the top about the firmware saying Dahua instead of the generic IPC, then flash it with the international firmware. Many people do.
Andy is probably the biggest 3rd party reseller.
Dahua invites him several times a year to their HQ, including just in the past few weeks.
Dahua contributes to the lottery and sale Andy puts on that is
coming up next week.
You can update the firmware on Andy's cameras and NVRs from the Dahua website, thus proving they are real Dahua.
But you will find that the firmware we get from him is actually better and more recent than what is on the Dahua website because many members here provide feedback to Andy and then Dahua makes modifications to the firmware and sends back to him and then he sends out to his customers. These have been great improvements that Dahua doesn't even update their firmware and add to their website. So many of us are running a newer firmware than those that purchase Dahua cameras through professional installers. Smart IR on the 5442 series is one such improvement. Autotracking on the 49225 and 49425 PTZ is another. We got the next version of AI SMD 3.0 prior to anyone else as well. We got animal detection before anyone also.
Look at the threads here where members are actually testing firmware and improving it for Dahua - find a Dahua dealer with that type of relationship that Andy has with Dahua - I don't think you will find it. Look at the Dahua 4k camera on the 1/1.2" sensor as an example -
Dahua provides cameras to Andy to sell before Dahua even made it available and look at all the improvements being made to the firmware from input from customers right here on this site. And the kicker is, we are not Dahua's target market - it is the professional installers...