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    Best way to guide a PTZ camera outdoors at long range

    I had a pretty depressing incident a few days ago in which neither of the "ai" software systems that I am evaluating were able to identify a face on a 5MP camera at about 25 feet distance (admittedly pretty wide view). Both vendors claim that the pixel density was just not high enough. I am...
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    Garrik's Lunatic Eval Thread

    Ok, in case anyone wants to follow along, here we go. I realize that around here we take as gospel that EmpireTech cameras are the way to go. And I am not going to try to convince anyone otherwise. But I am an engineer, and I am going to do my own evaluation based on my own criteria. Full...
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    Why do "high end" cameras use a 1/2.8" sensor?

    Been reading the excellent posts here on resolution/pixel count vs. sensor size. Makes total sense. Until you realize that all of the "high end" cameras from companies like Axis and Hanwha use 1/2.8" sensors in all of their cameras, even their X series 4K cameras. Does anyone know why that...
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    Garrik from San Francisco here...

    Have had quite a journey trying to secure a medium sized ranch property in the mountains near here. Started out with very cheap consumer cameras, wasn't happy with the software and cloud access. Current solution is a combination of Ring (with motion sensors and door entry sensors as well as...