4 Best Floodlight Security Cameras (2026) After Thorough Testing

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  • Photograph: Simon Hill
  • Photograph: Simon Hill

Wired Floodlight Camera

Arlo’s Wired Floodlight Camera is the perfect pick for folks with an Arlo system, sporting two adjustable panels that can produce up to 2,000 lumens. The design is a little softer and friendlier than my top pick, with oval panels, and it can be wall or ceiling mounted, though it must be hardwired. This camera provides crisp video at 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, with a wide 160-degree field of view and HDR support, so it handles mixed lighting well. It also supports 12X digital zoom to focus in on details.

I also love Arlo’s rich notifications, and it alerts very accurately, mostly correctly filtering people, animals, vehicles, packages, and general motion. It had the fewest false positives of the floodlight cameras I tested and performed best with moving subjects, as it supports a higher frame rate than my other picks. The...

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