Yeah I hear you. Doesn’t need to be a dome - what I’m looking for is some facial detail but more of a overview of the front of my house. The wide angle aspect would be key for this to work the way I would like which is why I would mount it higher up to get more of a wide view.
HI Stugatz
A 8MP camera at 90 degrees has about a 25 feet ID distance ( the distance to 100 ppf density ), and at 112 degrees H FOV it will be about 20 feet.
2 stories up, you're not going to get many good ID images of faces with a wide H FOV camera even if it is 8MP resolution.
For an overview camera - look at some of the reviews by members on the 8MP Dahua or Hikvision ( IPCT brand ) cameras. ( turret styles are typically the preferred form factor by members - so IPC-HDW48xx would be a good place to start imho )