oh oh it does a little dance did you see
that security isn't something we usually talk about on ShortCircuit or LTT for
that matter just because it's kind of a tricky subject to talk about without
disclosing all of the security features that you actually have cameras aren't
too useful if everybody knows where they are but today we have something that is
truly ridiculous this is the most expensive camera that ubiquity has ever
released at $1,800 I can't even imagine spending
like $200 on a security camera let alone $10 times that but supposedly it packs
enough punch to make it worth it let's get in the
Box wow holy crap I mean the first thing
I noticed picking up this box is it weighs
like probably 40 lbs with all the parts in and uh this is definitely going to be
part of it this is just the mount
that's an expensive MacBook right there thanks for the sticker you
big oh wow so you get two every portion
is like safety strapped into each other
too bad they didn't ship it with that attached where does this even go into
let me get this box so that sort of
goes slides slides in
there okay I guess this is just in multiple pieces to make make it easier
for you to put it on the wall they even have a little level in there I guess for
your $1,800 they include a 10cent little
bubble level for the money so You' Mount
your four screws or whatever we're going to actually be putting this in concrete
in the front of the building so and then you slide the big
Mount and put the camera under there now we'll get into more of the specs of the
actual camera in a sec but there's a cool little nubb in at the top I'm not
really sure what you call these things but it's it's basically just like a
little rubber piece that you stick your Ethernet cable through that way when
it's in there and you tighten this down it's actually going to be waterproof cuz
this is going outside of course actually I don't know if we can get this through
here yeah I think the intention is to use this uh you you put this through the
cable and then terminate it after you can't really get a pre-terminated cable
through there so I guess we're just going to leave this for now whatever I
tried so assuming you have a hammer drill you drill your hole Hammer these
in and then you can take these big old
thick old bolts and drive them right into these jeez that is some beefy
mounting hardware for a camera screws aside let's get to the main
attraction oh wow it comes in like its own bag
what I think there was another thing in the box that I just dropped I missed one
piece but but it's just for the top of the this thing but wow it comes in its own
carrying case it feels like a soccer ball it look like a big chocolate egg a
big chocolate egg I don't think it would be very
tasty the G4 PTZ an $1,800 22x optical
zoom security camera that shoots 4K maybe we should just use this for short
circuit now look at that lens so like I just mentioned this is a 22x optical
zoom not digital so there's actually a full lens in here that will physically
adjust to change the zoom to whatever you'd like uh unlike digital Zoom where
you're just sort of cropping in and upscaling this is going to give you the
full picture quality throughout the entire range and since it's 4K you can
even punch in a little bit more digitally and still have 1080P or 720p
or however much you want to zoom in so you're still going to have really awesome quality at some pretty insane
distances moving inside I I don't think I want to take it apart cuz I think I'm
going to break it although they don't have torque screws
with camera lens stuff is usually a bad idea so I think we'll just leave it but
it it's a Sony 8 megapixel sensor so that's going to allow you to shoot 4K
video at 24 FPS it's not
30 I think you can put it in high frame
rate mode but it's a security camera a lot of people record security footage at
like 10 or 15 FPS because of the zoom
the viewing angles aren't fantastic you're looking at 64 degrees down to 3
degrees when you're fully zoomed in horizontally and then 37 degrees
vertically down to two degrees when you're fully zoomed in H's
that well that's pretty
Sleek it looks a little dilapitated right now cuz it's not
on yeah or like outside of a bank or
something like spying on you like you
see him in a movie and he do little Dance It's Like a Star Wars character
G4 hey guys
so unlike the G3 series of cameras which use 10100 ports this one actually has
full gigabit just like the G4 Pro over there um I guess it might be able to do
over 100 megabit bit rate which is that's pretty insane for security camera
and it actually makes use a PoE Plus+ which for some people might require a
switch upgrade or you might just have to use a PoE injector as this bad boy can
drop to 43 Watts when it's in full
motion zooming doing everything and your standard PoE that's usually about 30 w
isn't going to cut it shall we plug it in right after I tell you about our
sponsor oh oh does a little dance did
you see that oh really what you didn't
see the dance no I think it's just finding home all right so we're in the
UniFi protect dashboard I've got the camera already set up I'm going to switch it to 4K because by default it
does some like weird Max bit rate 720p
thing that like scales to your connection but we want to see like the
best quality we got the pan tilt Zoom controls here you can take a photo full
screen it you can do wide dynamic
range what is that you can like increase the dynamic
range of the camera probably similat it it just like a log like it shoots
flatter yeah it does shoot it flatter cuz usually on the other G4 cameras they
have just like an HDR switch you can
just turn it on or off but this is okay this is kind of tripping out just give give me a second here let just refresh
the page oh wow look at that so you can just click in the live feed and it will
move and then Focus oh you can use arrow keys too whoa hi jonno I just click on
that and then we go big
Zoom it's kind of dark not going to lie but um focus
hands yeah
wow the detail is insane it looks so
good and if we Uno it it's such a a
gentle unzoo oh no never mind holy crap
you you almost can't even see the thing I was just looking at I guess the only
thing that's left is to put this thing on the building and see what it actually can see outside well it is another day I
spent the several hours that took me to install the
camera he's lost it ladies and gentlemen got to put these
wasn't the easiest thing I've ever done but I'm also not a professional concrete
driller so look look at my car let's see if we can see the stickers on the side
of my car how do I zoom let's
go holy
crap no but look at that oh there we go
it actually maintains the focus pretty well when it's zooming I've seen a lot
of PTZ cameras that when you you zoom
they just go completely out of focus so that's pretty impressive what about like
okay there's some dumpsters over there I want to see if we can read the text on the
dumpsters Progressive Waste Services do
not park that's like on the complete other
end of our complex that's insane this camera actually just came out of the
beta period into General availability so it can be a little finicky still in
terms of the controls they're still working on that but so far I mean it
works pretty much as good as I could expect that's the street that's like
hundreds of feet away look oh there's a
train wow yeah how dark is it outside right
now look like medium blue medium blue it looks like pretty much bright as day on
the the camera that's pretty impressive
what if we maybe I'll turn on the IR mode oh yeah it doesn't even care it's
so bright still for this camera well I
guess that pretty much sums it up this thing is an absolute monster and if you
need a security camera with some crazy Zoom maybe you're you have a Data Center
and you got a big field outside you want to be able to surveil or you want to spy
on your neighbors not that we are going to advise you to do that this might be
the camera for you um or maybe you're just like a tech nerd like us and you
want to put a stupid camera on the front of your building just cuz you can't so
thanks for watching guys if you're interested in camera stuff although it's not really security cameras uh you can
check out one of Brandon's short circuits maybe on the or some mini 12K
are we done bye