Review on 📷 HDView License Plate Camera 4-in-1, Full HD 1080P Security Camera with IR Night Vision and 5-50mm Lens, Long Range Surveillance Camera with WDR and HLC by Lisa Ortega

I needed a long zoom "analog" HDCVI camera for a license plate reading project. It looked good in other reviews, so I ordered it. I had a small issue with the zoom/focus controls, I was wrong in assuming it was motorized, the paper wrapper insert showed the use of the PTZ controls, it wasn't immediately clear that they assigned the DVR's PTZ controller to the On - Camera setup menu screen, The camera has manual zoom/focus. The manual zoom/focus controls are conveniently located for adjustment while standing on a flight of stairs. The quirk is that the camera doesn't focus when you zoom out to the maximum. The solution is to zoom out to the maximum, set the focus to the maximum, and then zoom in for the final focus. Neighbor's driveway across the street at least 100 feet away and focused on her car and truck in the driveway. At this maximum magnification I could get about 1.5 car widths by cutting off the sides of each car. I could see both labels and read them easily on my dash cam - I didn't even need a 3x3 full screen view. kind of grid I can read the disk. The actual test took place at night. Using suggestions from other reviews, I set "Exposure -> Shutter" to "Manual" and set it to 1/2000th of a second. I also set the DNR to "high" and saved the new settings. The license plate is very legible at night, the rest of the image is "black", but it should be so that the highly reflective license plate is not "blurred" and unreadable. The picture is still very good in daylight, but tends to get a bit darker. If you install it permanently and try the flowing traffic it will tell you, but it's still too hot in here to dig up the attic to run a cable for its permanent anchoring. Overall very happy with the performance, especially considering the price. Motion detection shouldn't be in sight for this type of camera - it's a DVR feature - which in my experience is always terrible. Either you get so many false motion detectors due to lighting changes that you could just record continuously, or too much real motion is missing. That's why I've created an add-on to use AI to detect "people" and "vehicles" in RTSP streams and save full resolution JPEG images for MMS text messages when they're missing or around clock to provide an index. recorded video when something happens. I usually never look at surveillance footage unless something happened. The clearing (finding the area of interest) on all the DVRs I've worked with is really bad, with AI saved images I can jump right to the point of interest. With default settings and some cooperating neighbors. I've seen a "virtual neighborhood watch" set up with these cameras. I hope they have or release an IP version of these cameras - resist the temptation to add all the DVR motion detection, FTP, email etc functionality. Focus on serving good rtsp streams and returning low latency, full frame resolution snapshots on demand over HTTP requests. AI is the future, but it's too early to put it in front of the camera, things are changing too fast.