Overall this camera rates middle of the road with me. Picture quality is great but night time motion recording is poor. The camera seems to lack some common sense functions that the company said they're aware of. First of all the camera is promoted as an indoor/outdoor camera. Since the camera has a CCD image sensor it is very suseptable to damage from sunlight, however the camera lacks the ability to schedule automatic setting changes. For example during the night the slow shutter and max gain control provide excellant images (motion however is blurred or nonrecordable) but during the day these settings may damage the sensor if exposed to direct sunlight. No timer exsists to automatically change these settings or change direction of the camera to prevent sunlight damage. The second issue involves recorded files, since the motion sensor is active all the time with no time out option, alarm recordings are in several small file entries. I've seen up to 5 seperate files recorded for a single event with some of those files containing just one image. At the end of the day you can have over one hundred alarm recordings for just 20-30 events. The company has said over the phone they're aware of these issues but hasn't indicated if they will correct them. Company did indicate that the camera will interface with third party software such as Active Webcam. Since installing the third party software the recording issues are no longer a problem. Actually caught a thief the other night when the motion lights came on and he was face first in front of the camera. The Police were able to make out the image. 
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