FCD600 testing
Anyone using this or the NCD800 camera? I've been testing the FCD600 and I really want to like it, but the viewing experience isn't that great and object detections just don't seem to work as well.
Below are screenshots of the 2 places I'm testing these cameras. The first is just under the eave of a large pavilion overlooking about 8 acres of land. Even though I have large dogs and (normal size) kids running through there I don't often get alerts (object detection action). I wonder if the size of the object is smaller than expected given the extreme field of view?
Similarly, the second is overlooking a couple acres. The camera is about 20 ft off the ground just over some hedges.
Now, not coming to complain, but rather share some thoughts on these unique cameras so far. I almost wish I could split the feeds of each (I thought I saw a YouTube video where someone was able to create sub streams of each lens but can't find it to try it.)
Anyone doing anything creative with these cameras?
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I have the FCD800, the 4k version of the 600. (Not the NCD800, it is actually an FCD... It's not on Annke's website for whatever reason, but it is a real thing.)
I've been quite pleased with it. I'm 100% Hikvision (OEM no-label versions) and really like their products. These Annke cameras are of course also actually Hikvision cameras, though it is all plastic rather than all metal like my regular dome and bullet cameras.
I'm interior, and I did have issues with rolling banding due to lighting, but was able to largely get rid of that with a few settings tweaks. Also, the room it is in is VERY bright and VERY white, but is still under construction. Once the dark floor goes in and all the contents of the room go in, I think the very tiny amount of banding I have left will go away. I noticed a dramatic reduction in it (before even doing any settings tweaks) when the white drop cloth on the floor, which essentially made the entire field of view pure white, was taken up revealing the warmer yellow-y subfloor. I think my issue is more with white-out than flicker. Or white-out causing flicker, anyway.
Of course it doesn't seem like it, because of the way wide angle works, but this is quite a wide and narrow room. 32 feet left to right, and only about 7 feet deep. The camera is about 7 feet 9 inches off the floor, centered above a central door.
With those challenging geometrics in mind, I'm quite pleased with how it comes out. I've done tests walking all around, and there is very little distortion for people in the floor area, other than getting really small at the extreme left and right, revealing the true width of the room. The majority of the severe distortion is higher and beyond where people can "be" in frame.
how does your object recognition work at this angle? That seems to be my biggest problem. Not sure if it's because my cameras are so high or if it's the resolution. I just don't get alerts on them almost ever.
At the price my use may be a wide angle sky cam, although a question would be if the night color sensitivity would be able to show brighter stars or satellites.
Afraid I don't do object detection, so I can't help with that one.