I have been wanting to go from analog to ip for awhile only reason I hadn't was the price, since ip was twice or more compared to analog. I had found this form when looking and comparing ip cameras and low light technologies. I had seen a lot on HK and Dahua but was still out of my price range at least retail sells. I'm pretty technical as I'm in IT and do hardware repair and re-imaging I wasn't worried about tech support.
So I found Cantonk
and though it was a good deal that I would soon regret it was ok at first and they tried to help at first then didn't care. I had gotten a 12mp IMX226 verifocal turret and was great for around two days.
Then it would randomly stop working and turned out to be a port issue it didn't like 8082 for whatever reason. Then it started rebooting and finally got to where it wouldn't come on at all. So they were supposed to send a new main Hisilicon board for the memory/rebooting issues. Waited over a week then called it a loss and lesson learned. Then though this form I found Empire Tech (@EMPIRETECANDY) and the good prices was iffy at first but after all the reviews I decided to give it a try and glad I did. The difference was huge more than I figured it would be. As I had 5MP TVI Starlights and wanted something similar I was going to get 2MP turret Stralights but then saw the 8MP with similar results (IPC-HFW1831E) so I got that instead. Also like the 8MP as it a large area to cover and I really need two or three cameras. I have one good light but not alot of ambient light but its great still trying to learn shutter/gain to get the best night picture.
I don't mind the noise if not to much as I would rather have some noise and less blur then the opposite.
Here as a few pics not sure it the 5MP TVI has color issues or if its the cheap RG6 I used and that they are behind a patio door though the glass as I'm in an apartment.
So I found Cantonk
and though it was a good deal that I would soon regret it was ok at first and they tried to help at first then didn't care. I had gotten a 12mp IMX226 verifocal turret and was great for around two days.Then it would randomly stop working and turned out to be a port issue it didn't like 8082 for whatever reason. Then it started rebooting and finally got to where it wouldn't come on at all. So they were supposed to send a new main Hisilicon board for the memory/rebooting issues. Waited over a week then called it a loss and lesson learned. Then though this form I found Empire Tech (@EMPIRETECANDY) and the good prices was iffy at first but after all the reviews I decided to give it a try and glad I did. The difference was huge more than I figured it would be. As I had 5MP TVI Starlights and wanted something similar I was going to get 2MP turret Stralights but then saw the 8MP with similar results (IPC-HFW1831E) so I got that instead. Also like the 8MP as it a large area to cover and I really need two or three cameras. I have one good light but not alot of ambient light but its great still trying to learn shutter/gain to get the best night picture.
I don't mind the noise if not to much as I would rather have some noise and less blur then the opposite.
Here as a few pics not sure it the 5MP TVI has color issues or if its the cheap RG6 I used and that they are behind a patio door though the glass as I'm in an apartment.
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