Foggy/Washedout Image DS-2CD2142-FWD-IS

I believe that you are dealing with IR reflection as others have mentioned. That happens sometimes with domes (and to a lessor extent, bullets) when they are installed outside. Give up; your wasting your time. Take the camera DOWN and use it inside or in the garage. Replace it with a Hikvision, Dahua or Longse turret camera. The 5MP Longse LRDC60S500 is an excellent turret camera for night vision and does a decent job during the day too.

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Q2U said:
I believe that you are dealing with IR reflection as others have mentioned. That happens sometimes with domes (and to a lessor extent, bullets) when they are installed outside. Give up; your wasting your time. Take the camera DOWN and use it inside or in the garage. Replace it with a Hikvision, Dahua or Longse turret camera. The 5MP Longse LRDC60S500 is an excellent turret camera for night vision and does a decent job during the day too.

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Not ready to give up just yet! Interesting camera you just posted. Is it plug and play with the Hikvision NVRs and does it have POE built in?
 
pbc said:
Not ready to give up just yet! Interesting camera you just posted. Is it plug and play with the Hikvision NVRs and does it have POE built in?
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@klasipca runs a LRDC60S500 off an Hikvision NVR. The camera is ONVIF compliant so it should run on most modern NVR appliances. Yes it comes with POE which you have to order as a $6.00 option. Here's a video from my back yard to demo the night-vision with it's Sony IMX178 sensor and HI3516A DSP. Note that the only light being provided in this video is via the camera's built-in IR. Also, make certain you set YouTube to view this video in "HD 1080p" setting...



In addition, I personally like the Longse LBW90S500 contains the same Sony IMX178 sensor and HI3516A processor, but in a large bullet housing with more powerful IR and I personally believe it produces a better image.

However, there are others here who will argue that Dahua produces outstanding images.

Bear in mind, we're talking $100.00 price range cameras here. Spend a lot more and you'll get a lot more, but I don't know anything about those camera because I can't afford them.
 
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Holy shit! That's fuQin' Fred! I thought an arrow got 'ol Freddy last fall!

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Longse LRDC60S500 (daytime wind @ 10fps)...



I'm done...my apologies for treading all over the topic.
 
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Well, finally got around to cleaning the optics of all my cameras, as well as repositioning the lens on the extremely foggy one, and adding a small 12mm bit of a foam ring to it as well, which was something I saw in someone else's foggy hikvision thread.

Will see tonight what the images look like, crossing my fingers!
 
Yeah, so adding the additional felt/foam ring did the trick, and cleaning all the optics was in dire need as well after a couple of years!

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Not sure why the pics got double posted.
 
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