CCTV system

[Sally2000]

In that situation I'd use a separate IR illuminator rather than an IR-equipped camera.
It will give a much better spread of IR light, and avoid the problem of spider webs across the camera lens.

 

[Jupiter01]

Any suggestion on the DVR and camera kit I should be going for?

 

[sparkymarka]

About. 5k plus ? For the 29mp camera

 

[Jupiter01]

£'s???

 

[sparkymarka]

£3500 for a a 16mp camera!

 

[Jupiter01]

ok...
back to reality, I can spend around £500-600. What should I be considering?

 

[Spreaders]

I have an Apollo A-Data system I self installed about 5 years back for something like your budget. 8 cameras and 1Tb DVR covers a wide area and decent enough image quality with Q-Vis cameras, probably better for the same money now. I have also today un-boxed my dead cheap but amazing Sricam PTZ HD IP cam. This is used as a "bolt on" located on a prominent corner and is great. I have 5x optical zoom, can spin around all over to see whatever I could from the same location. Downside is it only records to sd in the unit (not the most secure) but for £80 I am chuffed!

 

[musszzy]

In all fairness on your budget go to maplin and pick up one of their HD kits. They usually have one set up so you can judge the image quality yourself.

 

[Jupiter01]

Maplin is where I started...
They strongly favour Swann and I picked up some concerns with Swann on this forum

 

[Jupiter01]

Perhaps it's overly simplistic of me but I was hoping that I could get recommendations for a domestic CCTV system based on my requirements. I've pulled all of them together to make this easier:

- HD quality

- 2 outdoor cameras and 4 inside

- please note that my garden is 12 metres deep and joins a large open field. I would want good detection in this area, especially if someone is approaching my boundary

- would like a PTZ function for one of the internal cameras

- would also like speaker and mic functionality with the above camera. This is only required for the above camera

- I would like bullet (or appropriate cameras outdoors) and dome indoors.

- decent recording capacity

- PoE seems the way to go? If yes, can I use CAT 6 cable and is this recommended

- as a geek, I’m very interested in other features that I may be missing from the above.


Thanks in advance.

 

[Sally2000]

I bought a Swann setup. It was a useful learning experience.
I learned how to install CCTV, and what to avoid.

So I threw it all away and bought HikVision.

(Actually it wasn't all wasted, the cameras are now dummies on neighbours' houses)

 

[musszzy]

trouble is did the hikvision DVR alone blow this guys budget?

 

[Jupiter01]

I've set my budget at around £500-600. Is that realistic?

 

[musszzy]

PTZ is not cheap but to be honest as an internal camera not many about except the IP cameras you find here and there.

Maybe you should invest in a Decent DVR and build your camera system gradually rather than buy the system outright and you can
still install all the cabling.

I dont use POE but it is very convenient way of supplying power to the cameras i guess....

As for using cat 6 against cat 5 think there is a lot more to cat 6 installation than just laying the cable to achieve its
full potential and unless you are using a massively high end camera pretty sure you will never know the difference.

Fitted an PTZ internally recently cost was over £700 (Honeywell).

 

[Sally2000]

I've set my budget at around £500-600. Is that realistic?

My second system after junking Swann cost more than twice that.
Six cameras (assorted types to suit situations) plus DVR, all 1080p