Opinion on this IP Cam for Night-Vision?

[moheat]

I was looking to capture license plates of slow-moving vehicles during the night (in a decently lit area with streetlights) and I came across this Hikvision Camera, let me know if you think it will fit my purpose.

DS-2CD2T47G3E-L

4MP at 25fps
1/1.8" Sensor
6mm Focal Length
HLC, WDR, DNR

 

[Phil]

I was looking to capture license plates of slow-moving vehicles during the night

As soon as you mention that you would like to read number plates (but [understandably] don't want to pay the premium for a specialist number plate camera) we are going to have a tendency to run for the hills!

To recommend a non-specialist ANPR camera is to set you up for a #FAIL and ourselves for criticism

Number plates are retro-reflective - light bounces back to the source of the light (the camera), that is why you very often get nothing but glare in the number plate area of the scene.
Add in the fact that if it is dark then the vehicle's headlamps are likely to be ON, and you get extreme variation of light levels within the scene.

It's a tough application.

Hikvision's ANPR cameras handle it extremely well.

 

[cymruchris]

I mentioned on your previous thread that you're likely on a hiding to nothing - but if you're prepared to buy a camera (knowing that you can't send it back for not reading number plates) - you can give it a go. Too many variables that a standard camera isn't really designed for - and with all the faff of trying, you might as well bite the bullet and get an ANPR camera if number plates are key to your application. I don't think anyone will see that 'X' camera if it's not an ANPR camera will give you anything other than poor results - but as I say unless you plug a camera in, see what it does, nobody knows what will happen in your specific circumstances. You might find you get a 50-75 percent hit rate - but what if that one car that you 'need' the registration for is a failure?