I mounted an ALPR camera in a tree a few years ago and found that it was useless when the wind blew. The slightest movement in the tree caused blurry unreadable plates especially at night. Hopefully your tree is more stable than the one I used.
Wood-like Enclosure for LPR Camera?
- Thread starter TheWaterbug
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If you look at my OP, this particular tree is pretty robust. Trunk diameter is probably 2'.
I saw your OP and the photos of the tree, but large trees still sway in the wind and even the slightest movement could cause issues with LPR captures.
This is a test installation anyway, and not a must-have, so we'll see what happens!
I mounted the junction box to the PVC cap with a set of M6 cap head screws, and decided to hang the brackets off of 2 of them. The M6 screws are pretty beefy, and this gives me a fair amount of freedom to angle the brackets to match the odd angles of a tree crotch. Maybe.
I would have thought you'd be able to tolerate a fair amount of shake at 1/2000.
While a fast shutter speed helps freeze vehicle motion, the narrow field of view makes even tiny camera vibrations highly visible and capable of ruining a capture.