Running IR gain at 100% questions

awlectric

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Anyone else running IR gain at 100%? I'm currently running a few cams IR at 100% and was wondering should I not do this? Or is it ok to just go ahead and run at full steam ahead.

 

fenderman

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The gain setting does not affect IR. IR is always at 100...

 

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Setting gain to 100% will result in lots of noise in your image

 

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lower the gain you can get away with the better; i never run em higher than 50% gain and prefer to run it at ~33% gain or less if lighting is adequate.

Gain == Noise, more gain == more noise..

 

awlectric

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Thanks guys! That makes total sense!