Frustrate: Blur....

Well this is interesting. After adjusting those settings, it stayed monochrome.
Try 1/2000 shutter
gain 40-40
NR 25
bitrate highest.

(please let me know if you can see this image. It is a BMP saved as a jpeg.

Nope it is this:

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I think this one has been beat into the ground. I will w
Yeah that looks better, but can tell it is struggling with light.

For focus, you need to take the step from 20 and put it to 1. Right now it is swinging 20 steps. Even better is to have someone stand out there (or stop a car) and do an autofocus to get it in the center of the road.

For comps, here is mine LOL

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Oh my goodness! That is too good!
 
We have really dialed this camera in so much from my beginnings.

Thanks so much everyone. I will work on what I have learned here from you all tomorrow when our "filtered Northwest light" comes back around!
 
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Zoom more. No downside.
 
Force color in day and force B&W at night.
 
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Yep only force into color at night if you have the light for it.

These cameras need more light than people think, especially if you want to freeze frame. The faster the shutter, the more light that is needed. As you saw, simply changing your shutter speed to 1/2000 at 4:45pm with still light out and the camera decided that wasn't enough light for color.
 
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Yep only force into color at night if you have the light for it.

These cameras need more light than people think, especially if you want to freeze frame. The faster the shutter, the more light that is needed. As you saw, simply changing your shutter speed to 1/2000 at 4:45pm with still light out and the camera decided that wasn't enough light for color.
Ok, I have night-mode tuned for people and walking. Image looks spectactular (to me anyway). It is not tuned to capturing cars except with a blur. My risk factor is for people, so I think I'm good. I have other cameras that capture License plates at night. (even though I am learning that I can tune them better as well!)
 

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Finally we see a great capture from your camera!

That looks good. Now as bigredfish said, you can zoom that in a bit more and get a tad more detail on a person.

But yeah that will be the balance with that camera. See how fast you can go on a shutter to get a clean image of a person and possibly tighten up the vehicle as well.

Here is mine at night:

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Finally we see a great capture from your camera!

That looks good. Now as bigredfish said, you can zoom that in a bit more and get a tad more detail on a person.

But yeah that will be the balance with that camera. See how fast you can go on a shutter to get a clean image of a person and possibly tighten up the vehicle as well.

Here is mine at night:

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Outstanding! Love that clarity!

Side note: I ordered a replacement camera for one in our back from EmpireTech. Looking forward to the ability to improve my set up. All thanks to you, bigredfish and the folks on this forum.

Started with 12 year old PC.
External SSD disk drives connected via USB.
Misconfigured BlueIris.
Misconfigured Cameras.
Incorrect Cameras for my environment.

Now,
new PC upgrade on the way.
HDD (Surveillance).
BlueIris tuned down to 17% to 19%. (I still have a lot of reading to do)
Camera being tuned.
Strategy to separate recordings on HDD in case one drive fails.
EmpireTech - the place for quality cameras at a good fair price. (vs where I was buying from)
The ability to match camera tech to my "lower light" natural environment.
Learned how to access images directly on the camera.
(I'm sure there is more I could add)
(I'm sure I missed other improvements).
 
Ok, I have night-mode tuned for people and walking. Image looks spectactular (to me anyway). It is not tuned to capturing cars except with a blur. My risk factor is for people, so I think I'm good. I have other cameras that capture License plates at night. (even though I am learning that I can tune them better as well!)

Awesome capture! Congrats
 
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