I’m a security guard and we have these where I work. They are incredible, I can read serial numbers on a near by piece of metal, read parking hang tag permit numbers on nearly any car in the lot, and see everything clearly, even when you’re standing somewhere so far from everything you would absolutely never suspect your on camera and don’t even have a clear line of sight to the buildings like trees in the way. It’s absolutely incredible.
@@daanstam6697 At night in well decently lit areas they’re still great, even pointing them in a very dark area I can still see probably 3x better than if I was just standing out their with my naked eyes. If it’s too dark the cameras automatically go into inferred and lose some quality in clarity to that but they’re still good.
I’m surprised LTT doesn’t have a RED as a security camera, running full uncompressed video with all of the official accessories, built in to some janky home made waterproof case with a pointless large loop water cooling system his father made, streaming directly to their storage server that’s constantly full.
@@jthoward Yea the video made me think about how we'd sync up Galileo or Beidou or how we are syncing up Glonass right now. In these systems there must be a correction and that can give us an actual moving zero of the day. Would be rather interesting....
We use these cameras for high pressure testing where we can't actually be in the room, but need to be able to look around the test setup and investigate issues without venting pressure (sometimes press up and vent can take hours depending on what's being tested and thermal limits). I can't tell you how many of these have become collateral damage when a 20,000 psi component fails.
Wide dynamic range is useful in situations where you have large differences in light level, such as a doorway with light streaming in. It compensates for the light difference and makes it easier to see details in the darker areas.
Installed it myself without any issues. The wifi signal is great even ru-vid.comUgkxE_D_sddGAdiVUKp7PkkmyxO7bRtgqmk5 when the router is located far away. I really enjoy the night vision feature that allows me to see clearly any activity near our house (mostly cars and wild animals). The motion detection is helpful to me as well to monitor what happens on our front.
2:14 in, make sure you give yourself a drip loop. Water will find its way in regardless of your rubber grommet. Make sure the lowest point of your ethernet cable is below your interface/ethernet port.
@@w2cfx id disagree, a nuben is generally a lump or pertruding object where as a grommet is designed with a hole to create a seal around some thing. They are used in completely different scenarios.
Message to LTT staff: a license plate in the parking lot is visible (probably multiple) and I know you have blurred those previously so I thought it ought to be pointed out.
Tbf license plates are specifically difficult to track and aren’t really privately identifiable information. Even if you look them up it’s difficult to find a lot of actionable information
@@SimianSays i dont know america works ,bur car plates are public to view anyway to anyone so why is it a bigdeal that people cover them up ? the whole point of reg plates is so police /government know who owns the car
in many cases you can only look up what car it is, and from what year it stems but who owns it is not public knowledge. If it does gets covered up its just a social thing to do.
If you wanted to look at their license plates, you might as well just go to their address and have a look around the lot. It doesn't seem to have security outside the buildings, so anyone who wanted to do something untoward already has all they need.
As a security guard, I can tell you that these types of cameras can be absolutely worth their weight in gold. You'll capture more on these things than you will walking around in a highly visible uniform. People won't even know anyone's watching them.
Certainly a good deal better than the five controlled cameras we had set around the College I used to work at (rest were static). There was always, at any given time, one out of service. I would have liked to see how well this camera faired in the dark, and in bad/harsh winter weather. Heck, just seeing this camera being controlled like this is weird. I had to contend with a yellowed Pelco control board.
"the problem with security is letting everyone know where all the cameras are" "we're gonna be mounting this on the front of the building" okay then...
I mean, its mounted outside the building. It will show up on Google Street view sooner or later, its not something you have to try and keep secret. The things you want to keep secret related to security are things like alarm systems, internal motion detectors, number of security guards, etc.
@@evolicious says every 335i owner until they've driven an M3. Hahaha, I've owned both, and the E9X M3 outclasses the 335i in literally every aspect (aside from the potential to make cheap power)
Compared to the flimsy stuff you usually get it's amazing. I throw the included stuff away and grab my Fischer sx6 plugs and Spax 4x40 screws. It's probably overkill for most things but that means you can't pull things off the brick walls. It can hold about 30kg per plug/screw set.
@@Ricko1Games I know :D Fischer is just premium! Im just saying, whats "extrra beefy" over there is just the norm over here :D We also have alot more brick walls lol.
@@drillcreatives Fischer plugs are great yes. I can buy 100 for €4,27 which is not bad considering they can stay for decades. Most manufacturers count every cent and thus go for the minimum acceptable screws. Don't get me started on drywall, I could never live in a place where you can punch through most walls with your bare hands.
@@Ricko1Games @Ricko1Tubes and counting a big amount of the drywall cheap built houses in the USA, they are even in hurricane danger zones. Like, isnt that a little bit dumb?
As someone who used to work for a security company when you install the camera you cut the Cat 5 yourself so before you put the adapter on the end of the cable you thread the wire through the rubber waterproof grommet then crimp the ethernet adapter on the end
@@draquex most security cameras are fixed. Having a PTZ camera is already expensive. Having a 20x or 40x zoom is also pretty expensive. Add the "4k" and all the other gadgets (like heater, lens wiper, etc.)... Also, it's an electronic security device... All those devices are expensives...
@@draquex It's commercial equipment. All commercial equipment is either very cheap for reasonable quality (simple restaurant grade tableware and kitchenware for example) or very expensive for things that commonly are reasonably priced (reinforced shelving, electronics and such). And that is primarily dependent on special uncommon features and secret know-hows. Tableware has none of that - it's cheap. Basic electronics are made to endure... EMP and Arctic temps - they're expensive af. Also there are corruption schemes with overpriced things which can provoke rising of the "real" prices.
Yep that's more of a home gamer ptz here. Cons is no audio/alarm i/o's/ h264/ no object tracking or patrol routes/ IR is seems to be laser type but only 100m?/ pretty small angle while unzoomed and zoom is 22x. For that price i'd just put 4x4k cameras with 3.6mm/98 angle lenses around whole building and see everything 24/7 without manual adjustment. This is just a moving toy that will be left in one place after a month or so playtime. Unless you have a security guard who is using it actively.
As someone that is familiar with security stuff.... In your situation, you do not want a PTZ. As you pan and tilt (assuming you setup a tour). You will have dead spots in your recordings. And when you have an incident; you will not capture it fully. You will miss it as the camera tour around. You need a static HIGH megapixel camera with a wide-angle lens. Then you capture the entire area, and when you need a clip you can digitally zoom in, and still have a 4k video if you really want. Unless the camera / NVR has analytics and you can program it to track movement... but then I still do not like PTZ cameras in a fix shot location.
As someone in the security field I would like to disagree with the notion of "cameras aren't useful if others know where they are". That's false and touching on the idea of security through obscurity. If you want to be protected you should make sure you're measures are secure even when someone else knows where they are. If your security becomes useless just because someone else knows about it you should consider your security worthless from the start.
It's sure not something to rely on but if I were them I'd prefer not telling someone what exact software I use in case a 0-day comes out then at least I didn't tell everyone "today is the day to break in".
But for them as a brand, it will be a nightmare if burglars had LTT videos in their playlist. It is kinda how guilty PewDiePie felt after Newzealand shooter said 'Subscribe to Pewdiepie', even though there was no connection between the two. You don't want that sort of attention and security videos are bound to get it.
Netsec here, 100% agree. Jake knows nothing about security so we'll have to excuse him. Though not sure how anyone can't come to the simple conclusion as to why you would want someone to know they are in an area that has security. I guess it would be reasonable if you wanted to seem unsecure and were trying to catch people. But this isn't a sting operation, lmfao.
@@dannooo548 Eh, still doesn't matter. Every bit of software has inherent flaws, no place on earth is completely secure. It's far better to announce you have security over hiding the fact that you have security. Security is only a line of defense before insurance, unless you have something that insurance can't cover.
@@kirathekillernote2173 That's completely asinine and not realistic in any sense. On top of the most disconnected comparison I think I've ever heard. Lockpicking lawyer for example, proves all of that you just typed as garbage.
With this kind of movability and zoom, it might be able to replace multiple of those 200,- cameras. Why have a camera each pointing at different directions and one for your shed when you can have this?
1800$ is kinda cheap for a good 4k ptz. Usually the ones that I install are a bit bigger with 30x zoom (also 4k) and cost around 3000$ Anyway, excluding this camera the other ubiquity cameras are for no reason very expensive... The only good thing about them is the easy setup, very user friendly and made for the final user
Actually cameras are more effective when people know where they are. People are afraid to get caught. Good illumination and visible security cameras make intruders less likely to break in.
$1800 is cheap. I work for an AV company and we sell $10,000 PTZ cameras. They're insane and the companies who buy them do so without hesitation because what they watch is worth exponentially more than the cameras. For a prosumer/home user, yeah $1800 is on up there.
@@victorreise5000 I think (and hope) that a product that seems this well engineered, and costs this much, it should have some protection against stuff like that.
I don't think there are step motor inside because they would have been much harder to turn if they were geared down or belted down , then he was spinning them like crazy so no step motor...it clearly uses brushless...so no problem in turning them, then for 1800$ as other users have said it should have the protection from overvolting built in
I'd love to see this compared to Axis and Bosch. We tend to spend $3,000 - $6,000 USD per camera. The biggest issue with the price of the Ubiquiti PTZ camera is it's inability to work on Onvif and only on the Unifi Protect System
$1800 sounds inexpensive against a comparable model from the more traditional brands like Sony or Bosch. A business buying something like this would be concerned with the product support and interoperability as much as the features. My 6+ year old $300 Sony IP cam is still getting regular updates - not sure I'd trust Ubiquity as much in that area.
Axis multi-sensor cameras is cheaper than 1800 here. I would much prefer a camera with 4 cameras to make a 360 image and then a PTZ with similar specs below.
I used a fancy version of this with a machine gun attached to it in the military. Called a crows nest. You need one of those. It can follow heat signatures.
"that's an expensive macbook there..." Yeah and that's a guy with two left hands sitting right next to it! It's like watching an ape trying to figure out a coconut, read the instructions first rather than guess!
I install cameras for a living, $1,800 is nothing, 22x optical is good-ish, Most all IP cameras are 4k now (any good camera anyway) Your network pull from 50fps @ 4k will be crazy, You need Cat6A if possible, 43watts are nothing, I use a brand that require 60watt injectors.
