Teaser Info and Mini Review - Empiretech B52IR-X3 Triple Lens Camera

I had this grand plan to walk around with my laptop and Chrome Remote Desktop last night, but I was too tired and went to bed. I looked this morning and ended up with this capture, so not all was lost.

Any idea if I will get any better than this? Or should I keep making some tweaks? (It looks better now that I am posting it, than when I reviewed the footage)

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I think you're actually starved for gain
 
I had this grand plan to walk around with my laptop and Chrome Remote Desktop last night, but I was too tired and went to bed. I looked this morning and ended up with this capture, so not all was lost.

Any idea if I will get any better than this? Or should I keep making some tweaks? (It looks better now that I am posting it, than when I reviewed the footage)

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that looks better than any nighttime image from a ubuquiti camera
 
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So lower the exposure and increase the gain?

I am trying to get more detail in the faces, which I’m sure isn’t helped by the focus being several 10s of feet behind them. It’s too bad we can’t adjust that.

Yes. Worth a shot.
I rarely run less than 40 gain and often leave it at 50 or juice it to 60

I wish these had manual iris control
 
It looks great during the day. I have a few 2mp cameras in the back yard with the same lighting situation as the location as I was mentioning and even with the Tendelux D20 supplemental lighting, it could use more light at night.

I have a ZE in use that is mounted on the fence on a square pole with same terrible ambient lighting and it does so much better. Yeah, there is a hotspot in the middle, but I can't see the triple lens being too much different. And with the Z4E and ZE combined, there should be a good amount of IR.

I scour eBay on a regular basis for Empiretech cameras. I have never seen a used ZE, and I haven't seen a refurbished ZE on Andy's page either. So, I just purchased one new
 
Appreciate the heads up, but bad timing for me. I need to work out my network issue first. Don't want to add anymore equipment and have the nut across the street change settings on me or worse. Got to close the door on him first
 
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