DS-2CD2032-I Nighttime View

[John Esher]

Just set up two 2032's on at my house. Still experimenting with all the settings, and trying to figure out if this is the best I can do at night (love the daytime views):



Here are my settings at this point:

Stream Type Main Stream(Normal) Sub Stream
Video Type Video Stream
Resolution 1280*720P1920*1080P2048*1536
Bitrate Type Variable Constant
Video Quality LowestLowerLowMediumHigherHighest
Frame Rate 201/161/81/41/2124681012151618
Max. Bitrate Kbps
Video Encoding H.264
Profile Main Profile
I Frame Interval
SVC ON OFF






Open to any suggestions.

 

[fenderman]

Welcome to the forum. You can do way better. Set the noise reduction up to 100 percent. Disable the wdr or set it to less than 10. Make sure your sharpness settings is not too high. Post a screenshot of your settings.The settings you posted did not render correctly.

 

[John Esher]

Sorry, here's screenshot of the settings:



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And here's the daytime shot with early morning sun coming up. It's pointed in roughly a WSW direction.

 

[John Esher]

 

[John Esher]

Welcome to the forum. You can do way better. Set the noise reduction up to 100 percent. Disable the wdr or set it to less than 10. Make sure your sharpness settings is not too high. Post a screenshot of your settings.The settings you posted did not render correctly.

Settings screenshot above.
Digital noise reduction was already at 100.
I had WDR enable (for daytime shadow highlights) and set to 30.
Sharpness was set to 30.

I'll turn WDR off - I guess I can manipulate the shadows with image editing software if necessary.
I'll turn sharpness to 0 - just tried and the picture (daytime at least) looks good. Still not too soft.

 

[fenderman]

If your wdr was set to 30 that is most likely your issue. Let us know what happens. You dont have to turn it off completely, i have found that under 10 is ok, but you can play with it and see what works best.

 

[vector18]

It's nothing to do about the night time noise, but I prefer constant over variable. You can test out each one to see if you notice a difference.

 

[digger11]

A really nifty feature of the Hikvision which is often overlooked is the ability to have a different set of image settings for daytime and nightime. To access this feature, under the "Image" settings, change the "Switch Day and Night" pulldown from Auto-switch to Scheduled-Switch. Then you can either set a scheduled time to switch, or set the "Day/Night" pulldown to auto to continue to have the camera automatically switch to/from night mode based on the ambient light level.

 

[John Esher]

A really nifty feature of the Hikvision which is often overlooked...or set the "Day/Night" pulldown to auto to continue to have the camera automatically switch to/from night mode based on the ambient light level.

If that's true (and I just set it up to test for tonight and tomorrow) I owe you a beer! I was thinking to myself that two "profiles" would be great. I just couldn't figure out to override the hour settings I saw in the top of the tab.