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If I'm understanding the Ganz Radar Vision correctly, it would not allow for identifying a person at night, since it's thermal, I would have to have a seperate camera with night vision. I'm not sure that fits into what I need, but thanks.

Hello all, Yup, I'm going to ask the same types of ?'s everyone else is. I did read the one about the guy needing farm surveillance, since I have a large area to view as well. In between my neighbor and I we have a 4' high wire field fence, so no visibility issues there. However, we have lots and lots of pine trees (not that I'm complaining about them). Based on the little I understand about surveillance cameras, if I got one with good night vision, the rest should be taken care of as well (day vision). Here's the reason for the cameras - we are suspicious that the neighbor in question is tossing poisoned food over the fence to our dogs. So, that said, I would like to catch this person in the act - if it's occurring at all - and be able to use it with the authorities. The fence line between us is 700' long - it could be anywhere that he's doing this. I would assume he's taking the easiest route, figuring that we don't have a clue, which would be somewhere in between his house and the shared fence he's doing the tossing. There are small structures (shed) he can walk behind from one view or the other, but nothing he can walk in between of (unless you count a tree) and be completely hidden. No, we have no idea when the event would take place, hence the concern for night vision. I'm assuming that since I work from home and my wife is a stay-at-home mom and we can come out of the house at any given time, it would be in the dark that it's occurring. Q1: The best distance camera I've seen is an IR that can see 100'. Is that about the max? Q2: With the area and distance from our house that would need to be under surveillance, would a wireless camera have less capable night vision than a wired? Q3: I'm concerned with breaking any laws by pointing a camera onto his property. Who would be best to contact - FBI (yes I am in the states)? State police? I am in a rural area. Q4: This system would be largely unattended - we don't want to sit in front of it 24x7, but we also don't know how or when (or even IF) this guy is tossing stuff over. How would we be able to identify something that occurs in less than minute? I would prefer this guy to not obviously know he is being watched. He can then change to go behind us (no homes behind us, can access that area easily) or in front of us and do the same thing. Or stop and we'd never know, drop our guard, and he can start again. I want to CATCH this guy, if it's actually occurring, and I want him busted.

Thanks for the info, I will start looking into the suggestions. We do have a Dick's Sporting Goods store here, so I'll take a look there as well.