Recommend a front driveway Night-vision Camera

colinh

Hello,

I am looking to purchase a night vision camera with good clarity as to get a good facial image of a potential intruder. I am going to install it up on the corner of my two storey house looking down on my cars.

I would need no more than 15 metres of viewing capability but clarity of the recordings is paramount.

Any information would be of great help,

Thanks

KoolKid

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You are never going to get great facial images with infred lighting & up at the height of the facia.
Try a lower level maybe 8-10 ft up & use some good security lighting.
You will need decent resolution 500tvl or higher. For good quality recording look for a frame rate of 25fps per camera. Also ensure you have digital watermarking if you want any images to be admissible as evidence.
Its a very large market. Do you have a budget in mind?
Do you want the cameras visible or low profile?

homewardbound11

Thanks koolkid.

I stupidly didnt think of facial images and have put mine on the ridge level of a 2 story. Guess I will only be able to record number plates.

I had planned to put a pc based dvr but am a trying to figure out how to work this on motion detection only to preserve as much of the hard drive as possible.?

Regards,
homewardbound11

Jnealon

30 degrees is the recommended viewing angle for number plate recognition so mounting the camera lower will help. You may also need some infrared lighting. This will help avoid ghosting and grainy pictures at night

KoolKid

homewardbound11 wrote: »

I had planned to put a pc based dvr but am a trying to figure out how to work this on motion detection only to preserve as much of the hard drive as possible.?

Most good DVRs will allow for motion detection.

colinh

koolkid wrote: »

{moved to electrical}
You are never going to get great facial images with infred lighting & up at the height of the facia.
Try a lower level maybe 8-10 ft up & use some good security lighting.
You will need decent resolution 500tvl or higher. For good quality recording look for a frame rate of 25fps per camera. Also ensure you have digital watermarking if you want any images to be admissible as evidence.
Its a very large market. Do you have a budget in mind?
Do you want the cameras visible or low profile?

Thanks koolkid,
I'm looking for a monitor and recording with one camera package what would i be looking at price wise?budget of between 500-800euro.

8 to 10ft sounds pretty low?what about rigging it up under the upstairs window ledge.I would like the camera visible.All i need is a camera that can do the job of getting a good enough mugshot of a potential intruder with a good recording unit with playback.

Would you recomend dvd or vhs recording?

KoolKid

Always DVR , VHS has had its day. For your price range I'd say a 4 way version of this . It will give you motion record, a decent frame rate, CD rewriter & a network card.
For camera have a look at Samsung SCO-2120R .
They would probably come in around €800-€900 without the monitor.

Jnealon

+1 for the Samsung but a dome may be more discreet

colinh

koolkid wrote: »

Always DVR , VHS has had its day. For your price range I'd say a 4 way version of this . It will give you motion record, a decent frame rate, CD rewriter & a network card.
For camera have a look at Samsung SCO-2120R .
They would probably come in around €800-€900 without the monitor.

Thanks koolkid for your input i really appreciate it.

One more question I live in a estate with semi detached houses, is there any law prohibiting having a camera looking onto my driveway?

KoolKid

colinh wrote: »

Thanks koolkid for your input i really appreciate it.

One more question I live in a estate with semi detached houses, is there any law prohibiting having a camera looking onto my driveway?

None whatsoever!

Jnealon

Just respect your neighbours privacy and avoid any blatant intrusion.

Leadership

I am trying to protect a new build and had a few people snopping around at night. I bought a cheap €200 camera and DVR kit from B&Q and some security lights. On its own the camera sucked at night but with the security lights works perfectly. So far I have caught 2 fly tippers dumping rubish on the site and one localy known lad who was casing the house. The resolution is not the best but it does the job very effectively.

Even on camera the Guards are reluctant to do anything but I enjoyed tracing the people who dumped rubbish and confronting them by tipping their rubbish back on thier front lawn and posting a DVD of them commiting the orriginal offence

Camera
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=10647543&fh_view_size=10&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=security+camera&fh_eds=%C3%9F&fh_refview=search&ts=1274690392116&isSearch=true

studdlymurphy

Leadership wrote: »

I am trying to protect a new build and had a few people snopping around at night. I bought a cheap €200 camera and DVR kit from B&Q and some security lights. On its own the camera sucked at night but with the security lights works perfectly. So far I have caught 2 fly tippers dumping rubish on the site and one localy known lad who was casing the house. The resolution is not the best but it does the job very effectively.

Even on camera the Guards are reluctant to do anything but I enjoyed tracing the people who dumped rubbish and confronting them by tipping their rubbish back on thier front lawn and posting a DVD of them commiting the orriginal offence

Camera
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=10647543&fh_view_size=10&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=security+camera&fh_eds=%C3%9F&fh_refview=search&ts=1274690392116&isSearch=true

How much storage does this camera have? or can you just add a USB harddrive?

Leadership

Its a 4gb SD card and as far as I recal its 12hours storage. Works fine as its on motion detect so I get 3 or 4 days worth before I have to delete footage.