Q-See QSVC456C Weatherproof CCD Camera w/120ft of Night Vision (Color)
By: Q-See Average Rating: 4.0 Total Reviews: 2
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 On: 2007-10-24
Not a bad unit at all. Narrow field of vision, picture quality is good, night time images are fair. The mounting bracket is disturbingly poor. I dont know what they were thinking when they paired that bracket with this camera.
 On: 2007-07-18
So far Ive been experimenting with various Q-See products (see various reviews), in attempt to build a good home surveillance system. This is the best camera Ive used so far. This is being used on a PC with (2) 4 channel q-see capture cards running on XP. The camera includes 60ft of cable (BNC) which has both power and video in one nice thin cable. No audio. The power connects via an AC adapter at the source (ie, where your PC/DVR are located). This makes mounting much easier when you dont need to worry about power.
The first and more important feature is the night vision. Not only does it work perfectly well, but at over 100ft! In fact, because there is a street light in the distance providing a very minimal amount of lighting in the cameras view - it doesnt even go into night vision mode. It has such a low lux rating, it takes almost complete darkness for night vision to even kick in. So you may be able to remain in color depending on the lighting conditions (night vision is B&W).
The only real negative here is that it has a 12mm Lens instead of the usual 6mm Lens. Just imagine a normal camera, then double the zoom. So if you want to use this for recording or surveillance, you really do need to have it record something further away.
Pros:
* Night vision that works as advertised
* Great day time picture quality (420 lines of resolution)
* Long/thin 60ft of power/video cable.
* Good quality construction/mount.
Cons:
* Limited viewing angle (12mm)
Its really hard to consider the viewing angle a con - since it is likely why it works so well as its able to focus the big IR LEDs further away. So if you want a good day/night surveillance camera, and plan to do recording, this one is highly recommended.
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