Recent content by Dropnbassonu

that's called purple fringing, as for how to reduce it on the camera I can't help ya

Here's what I'll hopefully be working with when on overview. This picture has been cropped to reflect the angle of view based on IPVM. It's at a slight angle with cars going ~15mph on the street. I'm more interested in tracking people walking at night though, since our thief has been on...

Yep, it's either between this or the recessed PTZ nayr has. I want to see some autotracking and night footage at 150' away before I make a determination though. If I go recessed I'll of course need to add some external IR, but I'm not sure that's as good as having a more focused IR based on...

Would anybody be willing to do me a favor? I'm seriously looking at this PTZ or the recessed one but can't decide if having built in IR vs external will be worth it. I'm curious about a few things, and wondering if somebody might be able to post some samples showing: 1) Video and tracking...

Personally, I'd argue having @EMPIRETECANDY and @nayr makes this forum a win-win for everybody. Well, perhaps we're milking nayr a little too much, but that dude is an immense resource In a forum like this.

I hear ya, it was my first time ordering something from Aliexpress too. I've only bought a few things from overseas before, mainly Yongnuo flashes, DSLR camera stuff from Ebay. I used PayPal since I had some credit there, and @EMPIRETECANDY was awesome. I bought my turret when it was in stock...

What, you mean you didn't read all 73 pages before posting?!? haha, I don't blame you. Here's my pics and video from way back when.....see Dahua Starlight Varifocal Turret (IPC-HDW5231R-Z) and Dahua Starlight Varifocal Turret (IPC-HDW5231R-Z)

Thanks man, that link was incredibly helpful. It should be stickied at the top of the Dahua forum IMO

@nayr @EMPIRETECANDY do either of you know the focal length when the aperture changes? For example, at 4.8mm it's obviously going to be f/1.6 letting in a ton of light. Is it f/1.6 from 4.8mm-20mm? 50mm? Is there a standard progression these Starlight cameras share? This one would be going...

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Oh man, I've thought of every possible thing I could do as a booby trap. They're an awful lot of fun to play out in my head. My favorite would be leaving the pet door off and putting a bear trap on the other side. :eek:

Can you please explain how I'm to ID somebody wearing a mask, gloves, hoodie? FWIW I'm able to ID his jacket, shoes, and pants. I'm also not able to put a camera aiming at the door and also my truck, and the option of having 2 cameras in that location is unfeasible. If you couldn't ID this...

We do, that's the problem. He hasn't been back in our neighborhood since April after seeing my camera and flipping it the bird. If I thought I could do a stake out and bust him I'd do it in a heartbeat. The problem is I'm certain I know who it is, but everything is circumstantial with no hard...

Yeah it's in about a 2 mile radius of our neighborhood. Problem is that it's about every 3 weeks or so and our town only has 2 officers assigned to it during the night. The guy I have on video has stolen at least 7 guns and lots of other things. I could go on and on about him, but nothing...

Here's where I'm getting at.....2 nights ago we had this late 90's 4 door Saturn come into our neighborhood and break into a bunch of cars. I've been hit 4 times, ranging from my first stupid mistake of leaving my truck unlocked to having my kid's scooter being stolen out of the driveway...