expiredvirals1012 posted Sep 30, 2024 08:56 PM
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expiredvirals1012 posted Sep 30, 2024 08:56 PM
Costco Members: Reolink ColorX 2TB NVR Security System with 4 PoE 2K Cameras - $299.97
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$300 for 4 of them plus NVR is no brainer, I was looking at this product earlier this month and I think it was like $400 and I was almost about to buy.
Thanks for saving me $100 OP, you are awesome
Now, if you're mounting the camera immediately next to a driveway so a vehicle fills a large portion of the wide-angle image, then sure, 2160P should resolve more than 1440P, during the day, for vehicles coming and going from the driveway.
Getting into the weeds: from the street, nope, even "8K" cameras with a wide fov won't catch anything unless it's mounted at the street/sidewalk. A license plate camera for most placements will typically have a fov of less than 10-degrees horizontal, whereas these things are likely 90-degrees. To actually get the same zoom/detail at a 90-degree horizontal fov as a 2MP with 10-degree fov, you'd need something like a 250 megapixel camera lens...
4MP -> 16MP = similar resolved detail as a 45-degree fov
16MP -> 64MP = similar resolved detail as a 22.5-degree fov
64MP -> 256MP = similar resolved detail as a 11.3-degree fov
In reality the lens can't provide such detail at a wide fov, so longer focal lengths it is. The cheapest plate cameras that also work well at night (IR has a different focal point than visible light, and you need that manual focus to consistently update to the correct focal point between day/night transitions) are around $250. There are many reasons the HFW5241E-Z12E is the budget go-to LPR camera, and even I find its 5-degree fov limiting for a house-mount.
For an all in one camera system, this price is okay. Much better than the typical "Cloud" service cameras, but it's still more for detection and observation, instead of identification. The latter requires much more from a set of cameras, and it is not what most people want to pay for. A single hard drive is also not trustworthy for such a critical appliance. You know it'll work fine until you need it, and that day it will have died
Additionally, I use my CX410s with BlueIris as an NVR.. it seems these cameras take some shortcuts with the way they encode keyframes, so they fall out of sync within just a couple hours, all the time on BlueIris, super annoying... but that probably wouldn't be a problem using their own NVR like this kit comes with.
Does anyone know if Costco will get more soon?
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