The reason I am asking. I thought the V3 was pretty good. I had a car break in 8 months ago, the V3’s mounted just below a 2nd floor window and apx 25’ away picked up the 2 girls walking up the street, checking cars, going up my driveway and entering my car ( the one time I didnt lock it) and leaving 8 minutes later. It also picked them up in the day light 2.5 hours later walking past same clothes/backpack ect. I saw them went after them blah blah blah. So court was finally yesterday and after testifying and more blah blah charges dismissed because with the V3’s I had you can tell with night and day vision same clothes build manerisms ect BUT the night mode was blocky/pixelated around the movement and so the faces were not clear. that alone was enough to dismiss the case… ( and loose $1,300 worth of items)
Sooo. Is the OG that much or any better with distance night vision or do I need to look for a new set of cameras? ( and no I cant use lights, its mostly a public street and they would be on more than off)
and a suggestion for everyone, Mount your cameras at normal head height, if its higher and a baseball cap is worn you wont get the face in the majority of the footage, using 4 cameras I only had a few seconds of face… or actually very pixelated face
As someone that prefers to leave the IR lights off, I am disappointed in the OG. I bought a V3, a month later the OG came out and I figured it would be even better than V3 at this preference of mine, but it wasn’t as you can see.
Edit: didn’t read your whole post, sorry, The OG quality at same distance is no better than the v3, in my opinion. I am interested in the same subject as you and can tell you that an OG has the same resolution as the V3
Let’s get real here. As dabay’s photos show, there is only so much you can do if there is no visible light on a camera with a lens only a couple millimeters across. Yes, there are cameras that will work better, but at a FAR larger price tag (and I mean orders of magnitude), and in a FAR larger package. As almost any photographer will tell you, the most important part of a camera system is the lens. For example, my DSLR is pretty modest by today’s standards (a Nikon D50), but if I hooked it up to the 100 inch Hooker telescope on Mt. Wilson, I could get some truly stellar nighttime photos (pardon the pun).
I get all that, all I was wondering is if the OG was much better than the V3 since the V3 Was Soo much better than the V2 ( and no 100 inch hooker needed) - I did add a $39 wifi camera with motion tracking and that does do much better that the V3 but the app really sucks and I dont want 10 different apps for 10 different cameras so I wanted to see what others thought of the OG before researching other cameras
As far as I know the OG has the same or very similar sensor as the v3. The OG is not a lense improvement over the v3. You may have some luck with the v3pro though, it has the same night vision afaik, but it has a 2k resolution so you will get more detail. You may also benefit from a IR blaster/emitter. If you use black and white night vision you can light up the area with nearly invisible IR. It’s like the ones coming out of the camera but much brighter