 Unify sent us one of their UVC G4 Pro cameras now this camera is pretty cool. We've been testing. It's actually been unboxed for a little while So I re-boxed it for this Not so all the plastic things are pulled off is kind of I'm trying to say it's not because they didn't ship it nice and Clean with pieces of plastic on it. I pulled them off, but I re-boxed it So I'll share the unboxing experience minus that satisfaction of pulling off the little tabs I will be comparing it as well to this older G3 model and we're going to do some side-by-side Comparisons see the quality difference obviously the big change in the pro one. It's 4k to it has an optical zoom option We're going to demo how that works on here in a second So let's get to the unboxing and take this thing apart open it up Give you an idea what's inside and we've been using it for about two months of recordings And it really hasn't had any trouble It does get a little bit warm But so do these nothing that I would say is bad warm just like you notice it to the touch But the bigger point is after running for several months. It's seen a few firmware updates and hasn't any problems It hasn't locked up. It hasn't caused any weird issues This particular one It looks dirty because it is this fell out of a warehouse. Well, it was knocked down Dude not by us, but by a client and we brought it back and surprisingly works perfectly fine So that's why this one's a little bit scarred up. This is also a very used one as well But optically they're both perfectly fine and I'm not sure but I think this one's been bumped a couple times So it not dropped So we've roughed it up a little bit part of its testing part of it was oops it kind of rolled off the table anyways That sometimes happens because these are very rolly when you don't have the things on there All right, so let's unbox this So first thing you see in the box is the camera and this funny looking thing So it turns out that I was confused. I didn't know what this was at first. I was like, okay This is interesting. Well, here's the camera the accessories it comes with the little Boot thing the cable goes through to keep it waterproof because that goes in there We're not going to use that because we're not testing it in the water But yes, this is a waterproof camera. So it's rated for outdoor usage And the first thing compared to the old g3 is this is all metal. So this is metal here all this is metal actually metal metal metal brackets versus On the g3 each piece was plastic But they use the same or similar mechanism for how you adjust them or you loosen this and it tilts So we loosen this and we can get different angles out of the camera Same thing we loosen this can get different angles on the camera, but this Turns out is to tighten this. So when we put this on like this This gets in those little grooves and tightens it. So I thought that was kind of cool So if you want to crank it down You can it's a makes it kind of easy to do So that's just One of the little things that comes with I don't know I guess it's necessary if you really want this in there So it does have a good gasket right here We've had including some of these Out in the weather including even at our shop here and they've really held up Well, we haven't had any of these died to weather related issues We haven't tested this one outside as much, but I don't foresee any weather issues It seems to be as well-made and still has the IP rating like the other one does And this is the same flat Bracket so if you need to mount it to like a post it gives you like an edged amount or two And when we unscrew this You can see the alignment of how this works. Whoops These will line up like that like so so you can do like mount this zip tie it Then mount this mount this back on top of it and away you go So you can put either like not zip ties, but you could use zip ties I don't really recommend it, but your standard Band clamps could go through here and then you can put this right on top and it leaves a little notch If you can't go through the back you can have this little notch right here at the top as you can So you can see it better But the notch so the cable can come out this way and we've had to do something like that when they're flush Mounted against something or we mounted them sometime literally against a steel plate that'll You can't really easily drill through and you'll want to pull the cable out that way Other than that the camera itself is Pretty simple has a little tiny reset button right here. I've never had to use it But I guess if you forgot the password after you set one in there that could be a problem other than that standard RJ45 now This you can tiny as that seems it will stretch over an RJ45 if you really wanted to but I don't truly recommend that You're supposed to crimp the cable after you pull it through that's the ideal way to do it Just throwing it out there in case I've watched people forget and put it on there and what you want to do is have an unknown end poke it through and Then crimp the end on the cable Now It does come also just with a couple of mounting screws and the fine threaded screws that go into this are in the bag as Well, so they are they are here if you need them you got them now When you have it side-by-side with the G3 you can see there is a bit of a size difference between them not substantial The base mount is ever so slightly bigger but not much But where the camera has a little bit more bulk is certainly has more weight, but Either one of these are not very substantial. This feels really light compared to this one But that's because of the optics and the optical zoom that this has inside of there So let's go ahead and get these mounted to our board and do the actual part that matters to me the testing What does the quality look like how does these work? We're gonna be testing this with a cloud key gen 2 and the new unify protect software now One thing I'd really like to note with this camera is when it's doing the motion detection this little spinny part It's just really cool, but this is something that it only does when you hook it up to unify protect I connected it to the older version of the unify video software That's discontinued for those of you that didn't know but still supported It won't do the spinny thing, but the camera did work with it So that's one of the reasons we're doing everything with the protect software because is the new software that's out there for unify It is their new roadmap versus the older just unified video as it was called But they have the spinny thing really cool. That's definitely Winds in my book compared to this one. All right, so let's get these mounted So we'll start with the technical details the G4 pro camera has a 4k ultra HD Which is 3840 by 2160 at 24 frames per second Wide-angle zoom lens, but as we said it has an optical Zoom IP67 rated weather resistance enhance slowly performance 802.3 AF and AT support built-in microphone And of course the mounting quit that we've shown you in the video now This is a picture of the rig that I built Don't laugh at my carpentry skills. That's not why you're here And this is what's holding the cameras as close as possible together So I can try to make a direct comparison between the UBC G4 and the G3 Now here is the cameras both set up and configured in unify protect and I zoomed in the G3 Or I'm sorry the G4 to be as close equivalent as we can get it here So they're both on this stand and now let's go and check the audio between these two cameras This is an audio test of the unified cameras. I'm going to check between both of them I'm holding my tape measure some seven feet away. Hopefully you can hear me talking. How about Steve? Can you hear Steve talking? Hi everybody. Hi Steve said hi everybody. I just want to do the audio test and get that out of the way Then we'll talk about the images This is an audio test of the unified cameras. I'm gonna check between both of them I'm holding my tape measure some seven feet away. Hopefully you can hear me talking. How about Steve? Can you hear Steve talking? Hi everybody. Hi Steve said hi everybody I just want to do the audio test and get that out of the way then we'll talk about the images So as you can tell between these two cameras the audio is quite usable It's got a slightly different sound profile I'm not sure which one I really prefer but I could definitely hear both of them perfectly fine and didn't Didn't have any issues with it the audio on the G3s We've been collecting for a long time I should say it has helped some of our clients solve issues because audio gives context to video You can see two people that may be engaged in some type of argument But having context and that audio has been helpful for our clients that have this Especially at the cash area of a restaurant to help solve disputes and debates audio Not everyone expects it to be recording audio Check the legalities of that in your state if that's a concern But it has been a big help to clients when they're trying to sort things out Now I would say that the colors are definitely more vivid on the 4k That's kind of an obvious thing to say, but they are it does look really good But we're going to go ahead and grab a screenshot out of each of these and pixel people a little bit here and digging close So first we're going to look because I stuck a bottle of hot sauce that are on top of my lights And let's see if we can read it with the g3 here So you can down the corner it says this is the 1920 by 1086 And that's pretty pixelated we can't quite tell what that is Close that and look at the other one We have a few more pixels to work with here So it's not the best but we can about read this and things in the background too If we're looking at like we'll look at this Arizona and maybe some Being my wife left which looks like some Mick ultra's When she's recording her podcast here big difference I mean we can see this you can make out that it's in Arizona, but it's pretty pixelated compared to This here so there's a pretty substantial difference in the amount of pixels you get of course it's 4k But it definitely looks pretty good Now the next thing to test is going to be like the low light performance. How do these two perform in low light? Well, let's go turn the lights off and find out. So there's a clear difference in low light the 4k camera is Really great in low light. I can see things quite well. Matter of fact, we're getting some reflection back from The Refridge at the back of the office, but things are quite crisp things look great in here. I'm zooming in a little bit and It's it's pretty good. Now. This is not the optical zoom. This is just the regular zoom on there And we'll go ahead and look at this one full screen And zooming in doesn't really do anything for us because you're zooming into pixels Because this is a 1080 screen recorded at 1080. So you're just uh, you're not really doing any good here You're not actually getting more pixels. You're just well zooming in and pixelating things But you can see the graininess in this as compared to This so there's you know pretty big difference there in terms of how the picture and quality looks Now the thing to really note though is the zoom that's where things get good on this So if we go over here and go to the optical zoom One we can zoom out Take a second and you're seeing obviously a lot more. So side by side Here's this all the way zoomed out. You can see a lot more of the studio Versus this right here. So pretty substantial difference on those actually we can go so you can see a pretty big difference when you direct side by side them right here and The 4k one is this one here obviously without even a hesitation It's all a whole lot wider And of course if we go the other way we want to go back over to the cameras We want to zoom them in more And we'll zoom it in all the way here You can see a really big difference now. I will note this little dot right here Is something inside the camera This was a demo unit shipped to us from unify Of message him about it. Haven't heard back, but it's something inside the lens As a matter of fact, we jostled it around a bit and couldn't really get it to move But a little bit it was a little bit over in one corner It came over to here So I don't it's a dust spec or what it's not it doesn't appear to be a dead pixel because it'll actually When you're focusing Move a little bit like you it'll come in and out of focus and actually use it almost like a focus point And we're actually going to take these cameras outside now so we can Show a better difference between them. All right, so we're going to start with the g3 and One of the things that's interesting to me even at default and let me play with this setting real quick here ldc for lens distortion correction It's on by default And it kind of gets rid of the fisheye effect. So this is what it looks like. We'll make it full screen And you can see like these posts that are in the front and the door is kind of bowed on here So it's got to like a little bit of a bubble effect And if we switch over to Turning that off we See the image goes back to being square So we have your normal square image like normal on this but the the image quality is Not amazing, but it's you know reasonable on this camera When it's outside and it has a much warmer color tone to it But you can tune these in some of the settings on the g3 then the g4 has so let's switch over to the g4 now I'm gonna start with the g4 being completely wide And the interesting thing is there is no lens distortion correction option Which I thought was kind of strange. It's just not in the options here. Let's actually turn this to 4k here we go So now we're at 4k Really crispy really nice in terms of the picture quality on there And then of course we can zoom in with the optical zoom here Go all the way There's that little dot that I don't know what it is, but you can see it's inside the lens there And you can see I can read quite clearly what it says across there You can even read the numbers on her sign the phone number and everything else Matter of fact, we can go ahead and Screen grab out of here And it's quite easy to see that this is the bowmont sleep apnea center right across the street from us We can see the phone numbers here You know pretty good. It's a little bit. It's an angle. So it's a hard read, but we can see across the street We can certainly see this car it grabbed and No problem stopping the motion on that. So it definitely looks good in terms of that So it's definitely the quality is good. The outdoor is really great They are a definite step up from the g3 in terms of picture quality Now I will note and I don't know why but occasionally you may have noticed that this stutter happens with this one I have not seen it in actual recordings. This is something that it does in the live feed But doesn't seem to do in any of the recordings so when we go to play back those same recordings there is a notable um Like there's no Weird stutter issue. I guess I just grabbed it. I've seen it do it where it says like connecting and spinning But when you go let's go over here like to the uh live view Close these actually close these and look at the events And I think it was when we were looking at it right here changing a setting It plays back without the stutter So I don't I have not seen it in any of the recordings But I will admit I have seen that in case you're wondering and I wanted to make sure I address it now Before it comes up as a comment later The last thing I'll cover with this camera is the wide dynamic range So I've tested it. This is fully on And okay, you can we're looking the shadows here because wide dynamic range balances varying lighting within the camera's capture So we're going to look at the shadow that my car is creating right here So we can kind of see the shadow there and we can look at this bar right here So it's wide dynamic range on gives us a little bit of light and we'll look at the shadow in the tree back here So now let's go ahead and turn it all the way off and watch what happens to those shadows It takes a second for the camera to catch up All right, and now it's caught up and you can see the we can't see any texture on the bar anymore The shadow's gotten darker over here shows a little bit less Detail than the same with the shadow where the tree is over here. So the wide dynamic range is nice It's not dramatic. It's not like, you know the google pixel with its night sight or something amazing like that But it's there and it doesn't seem to hurt turning it on. So I definitely will leave it on Other than that the camera seems to work quite well. It's got other, you know fine tuning you can do here with the Hue and play with the color a little bit in case you want that warmer color Her colder color to match the other cameras But my overall impression I like the camera. It works really well Now the one side note I will mention in case you're wondering what I'm watching this on this is and we'll look at the version right here This is the unify protect running on a gen two Cloud key gen two plus. This is one of the only at this moment is one of the only devices I'm aware of that support the unify protect system Unify probably plans to you know release it for other device other devices that are higher end But you cannot just download the protect software. It only works with the gen two plus Also, I have an ssd in here one of the first challenges we had recording Was when you start recording 4k and you wanted to play it back You may notice that when I go here it plays back rather quick and doesn't have much lag That is because you put an ssd when you record with 4k cameras and you don't have an ssd in the Cloud key gen two plus it chokes a lot the drive they shipped it with was a 5400 rpm tosheba And this was just a notable problem with it for getting the files out It would just pause and pause and same thing with the recording It was very laggy and I assumed and correctly that if we swapped a hard drive it would get better So i'm still going to haven't done a review yet, but I will be doing a review soon on the gen two plus But I will admit having a ssd in here for the recording. Yes, that sounds expensive to record your stuff on an ssd But I found that it solved the problem with the 4k. This is supposed to support several 4k cameras Yeah, further sheet 20 cameras. It doesn't specify whether or not they're 4k But we did note that the 4k cameras are very Laggy on this gen two plus when I was using a standard hard drive not using a standard hard drive So we popped an ssd in there worked wonderfully Even with a we did try at one time a western digital black Hard drive and it was okay. It works But if you're going to have a few of these 4k cameras Hate to break the news here, but you're probably going to want to go with a ssd in here if you want faster performance maybe that's not something you're looking for but It it's obviously a choke point because once you have several 4k streams going the hard drive has to be able to store those And has to be able to write them at the date at the data rate that's coming in So if you think about an emotion event that's going on with several cameras at once It may be a problem. We only have one camera to test with so I don't know the whole scalability of this But I thought I'd mention that's what you're we're watching this on We did a lot of the testing on the standard unify video software and because that's running on a rate array Currently that we have set up for our office recording and all of our other cameras They had no problems there at all working with The standard unify video software But as I mentioned and I can leave a link to that video that particular software has been discontinued All right, thanks And if you're interested I'll leave links where you can get these on amazon if you're interested in the camera But overall the picture quality is nice on it The audio quality is reasonable and it's definitely a nice upgrade to the g3 So if you have a something you wanted to monitor with some 4k cameras That is an option on there. I will note though It does not support omvif So this camera is specifically made to work with either the unify protect or the unify video software But not necessarily at this time. It doesn't have omvif support, but it does do rtsp So that's an option. So it does have support for that. So That makes it kind of limited. It is only going to be used with unify products is the idea on this So if you're looking for something that you want to use with a non-unify product This might not be the right camera for you. All right, thanks Thanks for watching. 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