- Oh, Oh, does a little dance.
Did you see that?
Security isn't something we usually talk about
on Short Circuit 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 Ubiquiti 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's weigh is like
probably 40 pounds with all the parts in,
and this is definitely going to be part of it.
This is just the mount.
(laughing)
That's an expensive Mac book right there. (laughing)
Thanks for the sticker Ubiquiti.
(laughing)
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 (indistinct).
So that's sort of goes-
slides-
slides in there.
Okay. I guess this is just in multiple pieces
to make it easier for you to put it on the wall.
They even have a little lapel in there,
I guess for your $1,800
they include a 10 cent little bubble 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 nubbin at the top.
I'm not really sure what you call these things,
but 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
because 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-
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 all, thick all bolts
and drive them right into these.
Jeez! I got 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.
(laughing)
I think there was another thing in the box
that I just dropped.
I missed one piece, but it's just for the top
of this thing.
But wow, it comes with the a tone carrying gauze.
It feels like a soccer ball.
(speaking off the microphone)
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.
Unlike digital zoom
where you're just sort of cropping in and up scaling,
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 10 ADP
or 720p, or however much you want to zoom in.
So you're still gonna have really awesome quality.
That some pretty insane distances.
Moving inside.
I don't think I want to take it apart
because I think I'm going to break it.
They don't have torque screws.
Messing with camera lens stuff is usually a bad idea,
so I think we'll just leave it.
But it's a Sony 8 megapixel sensor
that's gonna allow you to shoot 4k video at 24FPS.
- [Jono] 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 15FPS.
Because of the zoom, the viewing angles aren't fantastic.
You're looking at 64 degrees down to three degrees
when you're fully zoomed in horizontally,
and then 37 degrees vertically down to two degrees
when you're fully zoomed in.
Hazza!
Well, that's pretty sleek.
It looks a little dilapidated right now
because it's not on.
Yeah. Or like outside of a bank or something spying on you.
Like you see him in a movie,
and he'd do a little dance.
It's like a "Star Wars", character.
- [Jono] G4.
- Hey guys.
So unlike the G3 series of cameras which
use 10 100 ports,
this one actually has a full gigabit.
Just like the G4 pro over there.
I guess it might be able
to do over a hundred megabit bit. Right?
Which is-
That's pretty insane for a security camera.
And it actually makes you so PoE++
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 Watts
isn't going to cut it.
Shall we plug it in?
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Oh, Oh, it does a little dance.
Did you see that?
You didn't see the dance?
- [Jono] No.
- I think it's just finding home.
All right.
So we're in the unified protect dashboard.
I've got the camera already set up.
I'm going to switch it to 4k
because by default that 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 get 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?
- [Jono] You probably (indistinct) to-
it just like it shoots flatter.
- Yeah, it does shoot it flatter.
Because 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 me a second here.
Let me 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.
(Jono laughing)
Whoa!
Hi Jono. - Hi
- And I just click on that
and then we go big zoom.
It's Kind of dark,
not going to lie, but, focus.
Yeah!
(laughing)
Wow. The detail's insane.
It looks so good.
And if we unzoom-
it it's such a gentle unzoom.
Oh no, no, right-
Holy crap.
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
it 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, let's look at my car.
See if we can see the stickers on the side of my car.
How do I zoom, hold still.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo!
Holy crap!
(laughing)
- [Jono] Can you see your racing gloves?
(Jake laughing)
- No. Look at that.
Oh, there we go.
It actually maintains the focus pretty well when zooming.
I've seen a lot of PDZ cameras that when you use 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.
(laughing)
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.
Oh, there's a train.
Wow.
Yeah. How dark is it outside right now?
- [Brandon] It's like medium blue.
- Medium blue.
It looks like pretty much bright as day on the camera.
That's pretty impressive.
What if we-
maybe they'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're going to advise you to do that, (laughs)
this might be the camera for you.
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 because you can.
So thanks for watching guys.
If you're interested in camera stuff
although it's not really security cameras,
you can check out one of Brandon's Short Circuits
maybe on the Ursa mini 12K.
Are we done?
Bye.