Indoor Outdoor Bullet Security Camera Built-in CCD Weatherproof 3.6mm Wide View Angle Lens Camera for CCTV DVR Home Surveillance System 1CN

Five stars, love it, because this is indeed a true day/night mode camera. This camera self-switches into a "night" aka black/white mode which does WAY better at low-light levels than 90% of the other color cameras on the market. Now, it cannot see in the dark, but close to it as long as there is some amount ambient light somewhere. The benefit is that you don't need those stupid IR ring lLEDs camera combo units that are packaged with 99% of the security systems sold these days. IR ring cameras are very "bug" sensitive, thus cause too many false motion alerts at night. Instead, with this camera, I simply have a very low light source not near my camera. Night image it plenty clear to see and no false motion alerts at night because bugs are not attracted to this camera.

You can't go wrong with this camera! The wide angle lens is perfect and covers a wider area than I expected. It's only 1 1/4" in diameter and about 3" long so it can be discreetly mounted. I recessed it into a wall. The video is very crisp and the color is good. It even does well at night as long as you have some ambient light around. I'm not sure about its weatherproof qualities. From my experience with any camera, it's always best to mount it under a eve or somewhere where it not exposed directly to the elements.

Provides color picture when there is sufficient light, switches to BW when it is dark out. It doesn't have any IR leds, but is capable of sensing IR light. I've got this camera in one window and I put an IR emitter in another window, and it lights up the front door without blinding the camera. If you have any street lights or a porch light, it does appear to be sensitive enough to give a picture.

This camera replaced a $25 camera I bought 6 months ago which works good, but the colors are off. So this was supposed to be an upgrade. At first, I was pretty impressed with this camera since it had a decent daytime picture & had a very good nighttime picture when facing my street. The street lights on my block provide enough light that this camera gave a night picture that was comparable to my Infrared Night Vision Cameras (See the pictures I uploaded yesterday). Also, even though it says it is "Weather Proof", I usually take that to mean "Weather Resistant", especially with cameras that are under $50, so I mount my outside cameras under eaves etc. to shield them from the elements.Unfortunately, less than 48 hours after installing this camera outside under the eave of my garage it has failed. When I reviewed playback of recordings from the first night, I noticed that it fogged up at dawn, then cleared itself up by noon. I took it down & inspected it, it seemed OK, so I assumed it fogged up outside the lens, not inside, so I put it back up. Today, on the 2nd day of use, I came home to see the live view was just fuzzy black & grey circles. I took the camera down again & you can see condensation has built up behind the lens.I really do not understand how this happened since it is not directly exposed & is somewhat shielded from the elements. It did not even rain, just a light drizzle followed by a heavy fog during the first morning. I have never bought an outside camera that has failed so fast.I also bought a 4 pack of camera cables from VideoSecu that were very thin & 3 of the 4 were no good right out of the box (see my other reviews). I notice all VideSecu products seem to have many good reviews here on Amazon, many more than most other security system products, but after my experiences with a few of their products, I suspect the reviews are mostly fake. I would advise people to stay away from VideoSecu since their products are cheap junk from China.

The camera was a good size, just what I was looking for, and the picture quality was okay. However, after being installed about a week, I needed to adjust the angle. While adjusting it, I lost the picture. After some moving around, it was back and then gone again. I realized it was tugging on the cable. I opened the camera up and found no strain relief on the cable and it was barely soldered to the circuit board (some strands attached, some not). It's very small gauge cable with only a few strands each and while soldering the video wire back, the ground pulled apart from the board.I might try to replace the cable with something a little larger gauge and put a strain relief on it.