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Old 12-22-2012, 04:19 PM
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The consumer cameras with the IR LEDs to light up the camera view at night is a nice gimmick used by the sales people...

It is much better to get a camera with the lowest rated LUX rating (lowest as in smallest number of lux, like 0.1 or 0.05), as opposed to camera that has the LED for the infra red lighting... those IR LEDS are not powerful enough to light up anything...

Take it from me, I do do things for living (i work for US gov-t), and that includes cameras.

the camera in that link looks like the bumble bee camera but a bit bigger - in that case the bumblebee camera is much better - i had it for many years on my 4.6 until I came across the license plate camera for the 4.8... As a matter of fact the bumblebee camera had better night performance than the license plate camera...

this camera has 1.5 lux rating, the shiny camera from slick's link has 0.1 lux - the slick's camera is much better...
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