Curious what are the best options for the price these days. Ideally It would let me catch faces of people on the sidewalks too. Maybe a varifocal?
What LPR camera to get these days for both Day + Night.
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A lot to learn you have lol.
LPR especially at night will only see plate and head/ taillights and not people unless you have stadium quality light. It is not an overview camera also.
See the LPR subforum.
Distance to plate?
Manual read or the camera read and log?
Camera suggestion cannot be made until those are answered.
LPR especially at night will only see plate and head/ taillights and not people unless you have stadium quality light. It is not an overview camera also.
See the LPR subforum.
Distance to plate?
Manual read or the camera read and log?
Camera suggestion cannot be made until those are answered.
It really depends on the distance from the camera to the target license plate zone. You need a tightly framed image (perhaps car sized or smaller) in order to get good plates. As wittaj noted, your nighttime settings will need to be such that you will generally get a completely black image except when a car passes. This is because the exposure has to be set to keep the license plate from being overexposed (blown out). This means other things will be extremely dark and won't be visible on the footage. All this means you should plan on using a dedicated license plate camera. Do not expect to be able to use that camera for any other purpose - like identifying people.
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Plus read the many threads in the LPR area, this gets asked a couple of times per DAY.
Plus read the many threads in the LPR area, this gets asked a couple of times per DAY.
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The Z12 is what most of us use around here. I can get faces of people on the sidewalk during the daytime no problems. Just depends on your angle. No faces at night though. Shutter runs too fast.
