Re: residential outside TV camera - suggestions?

["Scott Berg" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An excellent point!  From the  demos I've seen and reading I've done,
I think I understand the basics.  One point that I keep coming back to
is this:

If I have a few (2 to 4) high resolution (possibly digital) cameras
fixed on a moderate size field of view each and store everything as
digital data, can I do an electronic blow up / image enhancement that
would yield the details lost by having a relatively large field?

If yes, this would allow me to minimize the number of fixed field
cameras (lower cost and complexity) yet get the key identification
information I want.  Also, very large disks are now cheap, so
archiving several days of data for multiple cameras isn't such an
impossible task.  I do understand that the court evidence aspect would
be somewhat compromised, but it would still be worth it to me.

Thanks.

"Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Scott Berg" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I want to install one (maybe more) TV cameras to watch the outside
>>of my house or the street in front of my house.  There has been a
>>series of vandalism incidents at my house and some neighbors.   The
>>requirement is to get a clear picture of an incident, probably at
>>night, with a timestamp and enough detail (resolution) to be able to
>>identify suspects.  Everything I've seen so far has given a grainy
>>image that tells you it was a light colored car with two people,
>>possibly male.
>>
>> Is there anything out there with better performance?  I have some
>> flexibility with cost and installation difficulty.
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>
> Scott, you really need to think this through.  How wide an area do
> you expect single camera will cover and still provide "enough detail
> to be able to identify subjects"?  The narrower your field of view
> the more likely you'll be able to pick out the details you need, but
> for that to happen you'd have to pretty well have a multiple camera
> installation (similar to what they have in banks).  The alternative
> is to have a camera that "pans" the area you want covered which will
> mean you may not catch the perps "in the act" while the camera's
> looking the other way.  If your concern centers around a particular
> area (like around your car which is parked in one spot on your
> driveway for instance), you're still going to need at least two
> cameras to cover both sides of the car.  It's not good enough for
> most courts to simple see a perp enter and leave an area.  You have
> to be able to "catch them in the act" of committing vandalism and
> have a clear enough image to identify just who's doing it.
>