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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Like wow, I have so many questions! First of all, I don't to be where you are! OMG! You can literally read those criminal minds! I notice your PTZ takes off at an exact point. Is that a trip wire event? What distances? I also notice them ALL look at your cam. Do you have lights on? It...
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Good stuff! Curious, since you are good with all these thread linkies, I am wondering if there is anything out there on real work done AT NIGHT with a PTZ? You go look on YT and it's nothing but YT fairies with perfecting lighting. Haven't seen one real event at night. I have concerns that...
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    I agree but as I struggle to get up to speed as fast as I can, you gave some critical advice regarding constant patrol routines. Making me wonder what else I don't know. I do have a very rookie question on IP cams in general. Does the camera constantly send video back to the NVR regardless...
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    Drift in PTZ locations

    I will go on nothing but a hunch but being an industrial automation guy, I would suspect the movements may be via 'stepper motors' rather than proper servo/feedback encoder systems....to cut costs. the problem with open loop stepping is there is no report back to indicate to a controller if the...
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    It would still be great for life cycle predictions to actually know how many "miles" these are good for, and a counter on how many you got! Now, being an automation guy, I could understand this being a pretty open question as things like being in the desert could be quite different than some...
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    I should clarify that the PTZ employed in the prev example would be positioned at the rough center point of the fence so the furthest shot would be about 250ft. I planned to have additional cams backing that up as overview/spotter cams.
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Steve did put up a link in a prev post but thank you!
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    It does seem a bit ambiguous that is is not clear what is counted as a "cycle", or why a camera would then inhibit certain functionality. I could see where a warning could appear, letting an owner know the are at a cyclic limit, but consider it to be where you buy a car where there is no...
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Thank you guys! I have reached out to Empire to see what we can work out. I am wanting the 5442 and the SDA PTZ. But as I work on the cam layout, I did want to ask about the special care or limitations of PTZs. I don't want to wear them out. Because our facility is fenced off, there...
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Steve per my prev post, could you point me to the F1.2 5442 variant from Empire? All I have seen are the F1.8
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Ah, I thought he was only talking about the color cams with F1.0, but 1.2 seems pretty close. Steve mentioned the "more premium" variant so I am wondering if he means you have more aperture adjustability? I could see where playing with the settings based on actual site lighting conditions...
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Very much agree! I think I am pretty close to 'thinking' I know what I need. Probably just need to see the 4MP bullets onsite. The main issue is the power company is dragging their feet with our light upgrades.
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Steve, I am interested in the 5442H-ZHE model you speak of. If I understand correct, the aperture being more open can improve light gathering thus better night performance? If so and there are no down sides, I am curious which model that might correspond to at Empire?
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Oh boy! Sounds like park it in an otherwise dead area and only let it zing when the time comes....
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    Comparing real pro cameras to home grade. More than resolution specs.

    Question, Steve recommended one of the Empire PTZs. Linky. EmpireTech PTZ5A4M-25X 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight IR 5.4mm–135mm Va However, I was trying to find which this is on the Dahua site and there are two that I can only see differences in software or IVS type features? But as for PTZs...
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