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I'm just looking for a higher res picture than the day night cam I have now. And that would perform as a day/night camera. I have enough light in the area to not require IR assistance. Bottom line, I'm totally happy with the Samsung SDC-415, I would just like a more detailed picture, or at least see what the price point is, and then determine how much its worth to me...

What about the extreme fmx800? I guess I should mention I'd still like to have color...

Is there a hi res camera that gives me the same resolution os the reg camera? (also with low light capability as the sdc-415). I dont need infra red, as I have low level light for the area, so the BW sens up on the Samsung camera works excellent. Its a good camera, I'd just like better resolution.

Who makes one? I notice with my Extreme Reg L1, during the day, it makes some excellent pictures I cant get with my Samsung SDC-415 cam's. I like the low lux settings on the Samsungs, but wondered about some higher res camera's.

I tried the 80ft route and got almost 100% capture. I got a different lense, set at 20 ft ,because it has a slightly wide FOV. Capture rate 99%. Only failures in capture are due to old or dirty plates, as the Reg series are highly dependant on the IR reflectively of plates for night time capture.. Also some people use the plastic plate covers, which also deflect IR.

I wouldnt reccomend it. I found many-many bugs with it. Frame by frame playback still isnt useable, and motion detection at the dvr level is useless unless your coverage area is very small. Saving to DVD takes hours if any length of time is needed. Overall, for their "premium" DVR, I'm not impressed at all. Going from the search screen to exit the GUItakes 7 button presses. While they fixed mostof the bugs I've found, the frame playback bug makes it annoying and almost useless.

they all will do that. My $1k everfocus did that, and my $4k Samsung exactly the same. The motion detection is based upon the movement of a large object within the camera's FOV. So a bug flying close to the camera appears as a large moving object.

I just got around today, to trying to copy some images onto the built in DVD recorder. I've got the stuff on my windows XP machine to read a UDF formated dvd, so I'm good there, but all the files on the disk are files, and there's nothing on the web about this extension (except about StarOffice) and nothing I can find to play them. any thoughts?

cars are traveling at 15-20mph. I'm running at (from what I can tell) 30ips. Damned Samsung only gives numbers from 1-15 for frame rate, and I still cant get them to tell me what they equate to yet.

I'm running sensitivity at the max. Cars are about 80-100 ft from the camera,traveling horizontal to the camera view. But yes, the motion detection is highly dependant on object size, which is why nothing is picked up unless they are right on top of the camera (within 20 ft). Both the everfocus and samsung exhibited the same lack of detection. Its just frustrating to have to use external motion detection on a 4k$ dvr. Even the other camera, with at 100ft of about the 100ft, cant pick up a car coming directly at it, until the car is within about 30ft.

Camera, Samsung SDC415 w/tamaron lense, dont know the lense size. DVR is the samsung SVR-1650. Trying to catch cars going by. FOV of the camera at 100ft is about 300ft maybe, or just under. I have a camera perpendicular to my long driveway (600ft), with this one camera covering maybe 250ft of of it. Need motion sense to catch cars going by (so horizontal movement). Its not a problem of too much movement, its not catching the cars going by at all without the external IR motion sense.

I'm using not only the motion detection from the DVR, but external IR motion detection. The motion detection on the DVR was so poor on the wide angle coverage cameras, I needed to add external sensors (IR motion) in order to have any real motion detected coverage. Without the IR, someone had to be practically on top of the camera. (within 20ft) before motion detection occurred.

First we tried the neverfocus (POS!), and even the highest end Samsung (Techwin) DVR and both suffer from poor motion detection.It plain doesnt work until the object is darned near in front of the camera. It appears most of it has to do with object size versus field of view. On cameras with a narrow field of view, motion detection of larger objects isnt bad. On cameras covering a wide area, motion detection was almost useless. We would using external IR motion sensors to cover motion detection farther away from the cameras (appx 100ft). These two camera's with remote IR motion, are covering very wide areas of my residence. Is it just a limitation of the software? Its just odd that both units suffered almost the same lack of detection. The samsung just barely better and at 4x the price. Am I just expecting too much?

Any tips on how to properly clean the lense? I believe the lense is a tamaron

I have an STI 7100k enclosure with a samsung SDC415 camera in it. I had a yellow jacket get inside the enclosure trying to make a nest, and now there's a small spot on the lense I need to remove. (and yes, its on the lense, not the enclosure viewport). How do I remove the camera from the enclosure to clean it? Also any tips on proper lense cleaning would be appreciated.