I suspect that's why I thought it was optical + digital zoom because its really does stay sharp when zooming in compared to typical digital zoom. I hope to post some example pics and video, once I get it permanently installed and adjusted.
Agreed there are trade offs to using it. It’s used in combination with two other fixed focus cameras covering the area. It does work surprisingly well even with multiple subjects in the cameras view. Wasn’t aware it was digital only thanks for clarifying.
Not sure of the specifics in this cam but in general it’s prob taking
Unfortunately they are not PTZ's, the auto tracking is using a combination of the optical zoom and digital tracking to get a tight zoomed in shot of a subject within the cameras field of view. Here is a good example of it in...
If anyone else is
Thanks Not sure how I missed that.
If anyone else see this post these are awesome cams and are a just as good or better I already bought one 8080 and like it so much I now have another 8080 plus 6080 on the way. Superb picture quality and the auto tracking works great, also...
I’ll take one of the 8080 and 1 of the 6080. Not sure which 6080 to go with though. Do you happen to know the difference between 6080v and 6080rv, I have been combing over the spec sheets and nothing has jumped out as significantly different.
Any idea how much shipping will be so I can...
I don’t have much experience with capturing wildlife at that distance. What I can say in my opinion none of these fixed focused models would work great. I would look into varifocal cameras (optical zoom) for that distance.
Yes this cam is intended to provide color image at night but needs a minimal amount of light to do so, hence the starlight label. IR cut filter is permanently in place meaning this cam can’t see IR since that’s not how the cam is intended to be used. There is nothing you would need to do manually
The international part code is IPC-HFW5442T-ASE-NI, the is the NI at the end which differentiates it from the IPC-5442T-AS And 5442T-ASE. It’s aperature is F 1.0 compared to 1.2 on the model you shared and 1.6 on the non NI models. I believe @EMPIRETECANDY has them on his AliExpress store.
Check this out in the Smartthings Community it will answer your questions - [RELEASE] BI Fusion v3.0 - Adds: Blue Iris Device Type Handler, Blue Iris Camera DTH, Motion Sensing