Thanks for the writeup! You get a gold star for the day!
I notice this alot also, lots of wasted potential and coverage opertunities This also helps with IR bounce back at night because it forces the wall or soffet to be more out of frame and away from the camera. Thanks again!
I agree with you Omgitstony that @dville has made a good point about the most effective aiming of cameras. I give dville a Heart.
The only way I see to improve his setup is to expand it with a camera mounted on the neighbor’s house with sharing rights. And, of course, the neighbor would share in the view of dville’s camera. The picture below shows a mutual sharing of neighbor’s camera.
Yep! I agree that a good best practice is to have camera coverage of cameras. In this situation above in the OP, I’d want a camera also watching towards the street or front of the house. The camera view shown essentially has its “back to the threat”. Here is an example of a location (along with neighboorsharing, but maybe it’s the neighboor you are watching!) To mount a camera looking forward.
And thanks again to @dville for making a post about this to help the community.
Omgitstony you have stated the kernel of this discussion as succinctly as I have ever heard ‘camera coverage of cameras’. This concept is what I have been advocating among my relatives, friends, and neighbors. The implementation shown below for typical tract housing can be also used for larger more expansive homes.
In the picture below, ‘camera coverage of cameras’ is implemented. The cameras at the left corner is a double installation that view the front and side of the house with a 90-ish ° blind spot at the corner. This blind spot is covered by the right corner camera, the right camera’s blind spot is covered by the camera at the left corner of the front door. This front door camera has no blind spot.
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A slight improvement of your camera’s aim shown in your picture would be to lower the camera’s angle to barely clip the top of the windows to provide more foot-ware coverage in the foreground.
Just a thought.