Recommendation for a camera with great night view

A camera's low/no light performance is mostly determined by the physical size of each individual pixel. The larger each pixel is, the more light it can absorb and the better/cleaner the footage will appear. The smaller each individual pixel is, the less light it can absorb and the worse/noisier the footage will be.

The size of the individual pixels is determined by two hardware specs of a camera. 1) the image sensor size and 2) the resolution the image sensor uses. Increasing the resolution will lower the size of each individual pixel (assuming the sensor size stays the same) because there are more pixels taking up the same space - meaning each pixel has to be smaller. Likewise, decreasing the size of the image sensor will lower the size of each individual pixel (assuming the resolution stays the same). For example, if you have two cameras with the same size sensor, but one camera has 4k resolution, and one camera has 2k resolution, the camera with 2k resolution has pixels that are 2.25 times LARGER than the camera running the 4k resolution (and 16 times larger than if the camera was running 8k resolution). Therefore to get the best low/no light performance, you are looking for a camera with a large image sensor and relatively low resolution. Certainly running higher resolutions like 8k is going to hinder the camera's ability to perform in low/no light.

We have a couple of "minimum" image sensor/resolution combinations/suggestions to ensure good low/no light performance. If you want to run a 4k camera, the image sensor needs to be 1/1/2" or larger. If you can run a 2k camera, that sensor size can drop to 1/1.18" and achieve the same relative performance. If you can run "full HD/1080p" resolution, the image sensor can be 1/2.8" and achieve the same relative performance. Obviously the larger the sensore the better, so finding a camera running 1080p on a large 1/1.2" sensor would provide the best low/no light performance. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any company manufacturing that image sensor/resolution combo.

Most "consumer grade" cameras (Ring, Eufy, Nest, Reolink etc, etc, etc) have image sensors that are 1/2.8" or SMALLER. This means that unless the camera is only running 1080p resolution (with a 1/2.8" sensor size), they are going to underperform in low/no light situations. If they have smaller sensors than that (1/3.2" for example) - which many of them do - they simply are not good options if you need low/no light coverage.