Looking for recommendation for a camera

shankly1985 · 22 Nov 2020 at 13:55

@Dons sorry if this is the wrong section I had a look and wasn't sure on its correct place.

Hi all

This might not be your average spec me a camera thread. So right now I have 2x TP-Link Tapo C100 and viewing it back using Ispy agent software.

The camera themselves are excellent for my needs. Monitoring a leopard Gecko enclosure.

I would really like to maybe change to one single camera that supports PTZ also WIFI is a must and I can play it back on a windows PC for recording etc Must also be small enough to mount on top of the exo terra mesh lid using magnet.

Lets say price range is up to £100

Please see image below on the amount of picture I am missing.

Kind Regards

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Energize · 22 Nov 2020 at 17:02

It's clearly a 16:9 camera so you aren't "missing" anything, if you had a a shorter focal length those areas would be visible.

The question is do you want a 4:3 camera or those areas to be visible by using a shorter focal length, i.e. more zoomed out?

shankly1985 · 22 Nov 2020 at 17:48

Energize said:
It's clearly a 16:9 camera so you aren't "missing" anything, if you had a a shorter focal length those areas would be visible.

The question is do you want a 4:3 camera or those areas to be visible by using a shorter focal length, i.e. more zoomed out?

Hi

I am not able to zoom the camera anymore out. This is the view I see on my PC and on the mobile phone app.

Edit

I would like to see them areas.

When i say missing I did mean I want to be able to see them. Not that the camera should be picking them up.

Energize · 22 Nov 2020 at 18:44

This is probably better in the camera forum.

In any case that camera has a 3.3mm focal length which is equivilent to 25mm on a full frame camera which is moderately wide angle, so you need a camera that's maybe 18mm or less to see those areas if it's 16:9, I'm not familiar enough with cctv to give any specific recommendations though.

shankly1985 · 22 Nov 2020 at 20:34

Energize said:
This is probably better in the camera forum.

In any case that camera has a 3.3mm focal length which is equivilent to 25mm on a full frame camera which is moderately wide angle, so you need a camera that's maybe 18mm or less to see those areas if it's 16:9, I'm not familiar enough with cctv to give any specific recommendations though.

Thanks for the input, I'll keep looking.