Hello, beginner, and wanted to get some help with my first project.
I wanted to build a surveillance camera to watch the front of my house and even catch license plate numbers, but I had some questions.
Will the See3CAM_CU135 – 4K Custom Lens over USB 3.0 work on a Pi?
https://www.e-consystems.com/4k-usb-cam ... #documents
re there any alternative high-end camera modules that would work? The 5MP Pi camera looked good, but I wanted to get something better if possible, and be able too zoom in and out.
Thanks
Re: Security Camera
Even the newer 8 mp pi camera will probably not satisfy your requirements. You can get relatively inexpensive net cameras from Foscam and others that may have zoom capability but I haven't heard of anything that will zoom the pi-camera lens. It is basically fixed focus and fixed focal length. The pi-camera lens can be adjusted to optimize a particular distance and other focal length lenses are available on eBay and other sites. Power zoom is a feature I have not seen associated with any of these cameras but they could be out there. Take extreme care with network security settings with net connected cameras.
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Re: Security Camera
if you are planing on running number plate recognition then you will probably find that you won't be able to run too a high res camera or there is too many pixels to process on a live stream of images. Most computer vision works on lower res. Youtube "Raspberry pi ANPR" here is a hit that I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d34II6pAR1Q