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To give a little context to the feedback that others have given you. These cams are the Lorex E891AB series. They are very wide angle cams, 2.8mm lenses. They are also 4K (8MP) on a 1/1.8" sensor. The aperture is F1.6 fixed. All of that spells poor low light color performance. Shoving 8MP on the 1/1.8" sensor gives very little light per pixel. Since they are 2.8mm fixed lens, a person will have to be relatively close to the lens to get a good enough face shot to be identified.
Mounting those cams at the heights you are showing will not give you any identifying information on perps. Example: your garage. If you have a car in the driveway and a door checker arrives, you sill only get a far view of the top of his head. See the angle of attack diagram below, which is based on a mount height of 7 feet.
You have nothing covering the front door.
While having wide-angle high-mounted cams as an overview is fine, they will not give you anything that could be used by LE in finding or prosecuting a perp. I believe in fit-for-purpose cam planning. I have 18 cams spread over 10 models. Each cam has a job to do and the model was chosen for that specific job. I have a few wide angle overview cams. But it is the strategically placed, focused cams that give good ID even at night.
This shot, and video provided to the police was enough to ID the perp and have him arrested. This is not a 2.8mm wide angle cam. It is placed at about 6.5'.
These shots and accompanying video were enough that the LEO looking at them said "yeah, I know that guy". Again not a wide angle cam placed too high.
Since these cams give good low light color video, clothing descriptions and logo details were easy to identify.
