I use the
color 4k in the front as I have porch lights and a street light. It barely works. The shutter speed is slow enough to capture images, but long enough that they are a tad too blurry.
I do not use the on board lights. They are like mini specular bursts and are very distracting. Note that my cameras are 5 feet from grade. Eve mount may help a little, but no better way to advertise your camera location IMHO.
Others indicate they would just throw 100 watt bulbs in the coach lights to fix this, but my neighborhood isn’t progressive in that way.
I only use IR cameras in the back yard as there are no lights there at all. The best two cameras I have back there are the:
5442
Mini PTZ
Note that both IR cameras a very much “so-so” without any off board IR light. Meaning you can get by with the on board IR lights, but if you want footage that can readily identify someone, better lighting is always the answer. So I have 2 of these IR lights and will be adding a third soon:
Tendelux IR light