Do it yourself
Ok where to start I called hikvision to get a camera system set up on my farm, had a guy come out took a walk round right he said give me 24 hours I'll send you a quote happy days off he pops, 24 hours later in comes my quote for 6 normal cameras and 1 ball camera 200m of cable with installation , it came in at £8,500. When we looked at the price of the cameras themselves and all the bits I found the whole system only came in at £3,500. Being abit confused I phone up the company and asked how long it would take to install this, thinking it may take a few days which is why the labour is so high, but I was told the whole lot would be installed in 1 day. So to me this was over £4000 labour charge. I brought the system and decided to get it installed myself by a very good friend who is an electrician, when I finally phoned them and said I just want the system and cables on there own, I was asked how I was going to put these up to which I replied I was doing it myself, they laughed on the phone and said good look with that these systems are a pain unless you know what you are doing. I have looked at the other reviews on these and every person puts down that the camera system is terrible, I can tell you the friend that did this for me had never done this before and had never crimped wires for cctv systems before, but my camera system has now been up 6 months and I haven't had one fault with it, everything works as it should, and my ball camera itself will happily zoom in up to 5 acres away and give me clear vision day or night, after using some of the best nightvison scopes in the world whilst hunting, these cameras are much better once you get the system set right, hikvision are just charging people way to much money and sending people out they haven't got the knowledge to actually install these things properly, you are better off ordering the system and doing it yourself, you will probably find that you will have alot less glitches, as for the camera system I have to five it 5 stars, if you can watch deers 6 acres away and zoom in on their faces with no problem in the middle of nowhere then there is nothing wrong with the cameras the problems lie with the employees of hikvision