Recent content by TheOtherMike

Sorry for the confusion Andy. I mentioned this was my first lottery & I asked if you needed anything from me. You only asked for email & shipping address and then you gave me numbers. I thought that was it. Now I know better. Congrats to all the winners!

Asking for a friend

I happen to know it's not a typo

At one point there were 483 numbers, and then 478. Seems 5 numbers may have been excluded accidentally.

483 > 478. I trust it will be sorted out.

FWIW This image is a cropped screen shot from a 5442-Z4E-S3. Zoom is only at 300 (20-25%) The privacy fence is about 360' away. The wheel barrow is about 300' away. The fence is under a wooded area of spruce, pine, and oak. I have the lower branches trimmed. It's very dark back there . The only...

Z4 captures better (brighter) image of driver. Plate looks more readable with Z12.

Remember to hit the save/apply button after making changes

Many thanks to you for the guidance on the settings @CCTVCam. My biggest challenge with this setup is the Day/Night transition as shown above and here. Here is the most recent day-to-night transition (with day exposure set to auto - not ignoring your advice, just maintaining for apples-apples)...

Back-to-back comparison. I could go with any of these for today. My previous day settings: Suggested settings: Fixed gain & shutter:

not trying to hijack, but here is the scene just before & after switching. The night/BW image is too blown out and there's plenty of light for a good color image long before the switch. This is using my settings above. On edit: another screenshot from full dark with some rain/fog streaks...

Thank you @CCTVCam. I'll try those settings and see how it goes.

Good info. I too am just experimenting to see what gets close to what seems to work. I went with "0" for both day & night as the little help popup implies "0" would bias the system toward color which is the behavior I needed. What I don't know is if the image is B/W whether the camera is in...

I know zilch about any Dahua NIC. IPC-HDW5442T-ZE_S3_datasheet_20230524.pdf

Data sheets & stuff