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Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-08-07T14:28:13+00:00

Doesn't it have separate day and night settings and an automatic switch between them ? I'm sure they are independant on mine.

There has been a lot of talk over the years about this on ipcamtalk, but you are likely to get flamed there so be careful if you visit.

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:28 pm

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-08-07T11:28:15+00:00

I have had this camera for a week now and can get good pictures in the dark, however I think I am trying to do too much with it as I also wanted to capture number plates. During the day number plates are great, nice quality , however night time the camera is in colour but the plates are a blur.

I have nearly learnt all the settings and keep trying different ones such as exposure, backlight, illuminator etc, tweaking one way makes number plates better but night time they are worse, and the other way night time is better but daytime is very bright.

I have only started understanding the idea of what these settings are on a camera, do you have any references on best way to set the camera up or is it trial and error?

I have left it as default for now, so daytime is great and night is black/white but can read number plates, getting fed up keep changing and not finding a solution

Statistics: Posted by noopy66 — Wed Aug 07, 2024 11:28 am

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-23T18:33:24+00:00

0.006 vs 0.0007

Well it looks like they have advanced quite a bit since I bought mine. If mine can see in the dark, I don't think you will have a problem seeing a black cat in a coal hole at midnight with those. In colour

Do let us know how you get on with them. Andy tends to be very quick with deliveries.

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:33 pm

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-23T13:27:28+00:00

PTZ's half price, good bargain

I have just bought from EmpireTech -- IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP, the Lux on this camera states:-

0.0007 lux@F1.8 (Color, 30 IRE)
0.0004 lux@F1.8 (B/W, 30 IRE)

So should be good for night ?

Statistics: Posted by noopy66 — Tue Jul 23, 2024 1:27 pm

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-22T21:27:12+00:00

I had one varifocal from Andy on the dark site, and bought a box of nine ptz's on Ebay. Half price because they were "only" 2 MP

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Mon Jul 22, 2024 9:27 pm

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-22T13:14:38+00:00

Hi TimG,

The Dahua cameras look good, seen many for sale but not in UK, where do you buy yours?
not sure about Hikvision, do you think these will work with BI?

Statistics: Posted by noopy66 — Mon Jul 22, 2024 1:14 pm

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-13T12:13:34+00:00

The Dahua cameras have been very good for me, but I haven't bought any recently. I stopped at 2MP 1080P cameras and actually bought a box of the PTZs. For night viewing, you need to look at the minimum Lux specifications. For the above camera you have:

Which shows minimum Lux as 0.011. Cameras like my old Dahua DH-IPC-HDW5231R-ZE have these specs:

The difference with the old Dahua was the "Starlight" sensor, and that 0.006 Lux means it can see in colour when my eyes see darkness. I'm not expecting you to buy this camera, but do look at the spec for minimum illumination for whichever camera you are interested in. I'm sure there are now better cameras, but this is a home installation and I'm not going to rip out a working installation to chase Megapixels.

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Sat Jul 13, 2024 12:13 pm

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-13T10:40:05+00:00

Hi TimG,

many thanks for the advice you have given me, I now understand more about setting up the camera and I did manage to set up the day/night mode on my camera, however the shots are very dark at night despite trying difference settings and as the camera is over 5 years old and only black and white at night I thought I would buy a new camera (or 2?) to replace them. I see your camera is colour at night as are a lot of them I have been looking at, would you recommend the Dahua cameras?

Statistics: Posted by noopy66 — Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:40 am

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-12T10:22:02+00:00

If the day/night mode auto switching works, it should be as simple as making different settings for day and night in that menu.
If it doesn't auto switch then there may be manual controls, but unless they track daylight hours it will be a mess. Some of the Dahua cameras allow changes by sending commands.

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Fri Jul 12, 2024 10:22 am

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-12T06:22:02+00:00

The web page brings up the same screen as I get using ONVIF, screen shot of the settings attached. I am probably going to buy another camera that I can use for this vehicle plate capture, but so many models and options out there I didnt want to waste my money by getting the wrong one.

Statistics: Posted by noopy66 — Fri Jul 12, 2024 6:22 am

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-12T04:36:42+00:00

Most IP cameras have settings that can be accessed via a web page at the IP for that camera. Are you doing something different ?

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Fri Jul 12, 2024 4:36 am

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-11T20:58:50+00:00

It was from a company called Genie in the UK, bought these cameras and NVR but found NVR was not good and then I found BI. attached data sheet for the 4MP camera as I dont have the sheet for my 8MP ones..

I think the number plate is visible due to a very low street light nearby, its the only plate I can see at night

What Dahua camera are you using, I will look into getting one of them if its colour day and night. How do you access its settings, via ONVIF or what?

Statistics: Posted by noopy66 — Thu Jul 11, 2024 8:58 pm

Re: Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-11T20:14:36+00:00

What type of camera is it ? Most of mine are able to sort themselves out for day/night using an inbuilt light sensor. The Dahua ones can be forced to remain in colour too. I am impressed with that number plate in the dark though; what is illuminating it ?

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Thu Jul 11, 2024 8:14 pm

Camera suggestion for day and night vision

2024-07-11T14:13:02+00:00

Hi, I have been using BI for 3 years now and decided to allocate one of my cameras (8MP IP ) to view car number plates.

Using ONVIF configuration I zoomed onto the road outside and set up the camera for day time viewing, when a vehicle goes past I can stop the BI clip and view the number plate successfully, however when its night I need to change the setting and cannot get a great view of the number plates, when I can get this to work in the morning the view is too bright to see anything and I have to adjust it again for the day. I have tried many various settings of the camera using ONVIF but cannot find one that fits day and night.

Can you suggest a camera that is suitable for day and night viewing where I can read number plates of cars passing by, I dont particularly want an ANPR capture of these plates , just the option of finding the vehicle number if there is an incident which I will see on my other cameras. Distance to road in my attachments is about 25 metres.

Statistics: Posted by noopy66 — Thu Jul 11, 2024 2:13 pm