Larebear
Pulling my weight
Here's another. These are only at 3x zoom.Keep tuning it Lare and post the results if any...this Huisun PTZ may become THE cheap plate reader for the next year of so.
Here's another. These are only at 3x zoom.Keep tuning it Lare and post the results if any...this Huisun PTZ may become THE cheap plate reader for the next year of so.
I'll do that. Give me your CC number, expiration date and CVV code and I'll get it ordered right away.Order me 1 while you are at it!
Smart move. I might have to do the same. Really liking this camera.I bought 2 initially and then ordered 3 more!
You shouldn't need to change the setting. You shutter speed should be your minimum shutter speed. In daylight the camera will be free to adjust the shutter speed to the available lightWow, that worked. Thanks! Can now read license plates at night. Wonder if there's a way to automatically change settings from day to night with this camera? Here's a night shot of a license plate.
2mp with a 50mm lens for under US$150? You bet! The glass alone on my plate cam cost more than that. Will probably need more IR in a lot of applications to run high enough shutter speed to eliminate motion blur. I run 1/1000 on mine. I started at 1/500 but motion blur on the plates was a bit of an issue.Keep tuning it Lare and post the results if any...this Huisun PTZ may become THE cheap plate reader for the next year of so.
These mini-bullet cameras are great during the day with the default setting for reading plates. To read license plates at night without external lighting the shutter speed needs to be set at 250 or maybe higher. Thanks to SyconsciousAu for that info. Only problem is when you set the shutter speed that high, you can't see much of anything else, like people or critters walking down the street. Maybe one mini-bullet for reading license plates and another for capturing everything else might be the best way to go?I now have one of these cameras in both the front of the house and the back of the house. During the day I zoomed in on a car parked up the street to see if I could read the license plate. Not only was I able to read the license plate but a van drove by while I was zoomed in and when I looked at the video later, frame by frame, I was able to read the plate of the van that was going about 25 mph.
The street runs north and south. I can pick up the license plates by either pointing the camera to the north or to the south. The garage where the camera is mounted is just a few yards from the street, which does help. There's only a few cars that drive by here at night though. Most cars in this neighborhood drive 10 to 20 mph, so guess that helps too.Looks like you are in a good position generally. Your camera is almost perpendicular to the plate.
Yes, it's my favorite PTZ camera. I like the Dahua PTZ camera too but it doesn't have IR LED's. The two Poker 10x PTZ cameras are the worst of the lot since the image quality suffers somewhat compared to the other PTZ cameras.Lare is the the ptz you have come to like the most out of all your ptz cams?