HDW5442TM-ASE exposure/highlights

[CamCrazy]

Managed to get a couple of these installed at last, any tips on settings, I am struggling during sunlight to stop blown highlights/over exposure. I run manual exposure and short of reducing the exposure compensation it is still a struggle compared to my 5231's. Also tried WDR but I'm not a fan, maybe I still need to have a play with settings on these cameras. Daytime settings below:



In manual mode I run these settings:





Been pretty impressed otherwise, night performance seems good, I increased bit rate in VBR to give it plenty of chance at high quality.

Any tips welcome, thanks in advance.

 

[wittaj]

Let's see some pics of your field of view and other settings.

Are you running default for brightness, gamma, contrast, etc.?

 

[CamCrazy]

Updated, just wondered if anyone had some advice or had experienced the same. Plenty of experience with 5231's and others, never had quite this level of blown highlights though.

 

[wittaj]

Without seeing your field of view, it is a crapshoot on suggestions.

I have one field of view with bright and dark shadow that I run the brightness down around 40 with contrast at 50 and gamma at 40. With a WDR setting of 1.

 

[CamCrazy]

Understand, would rather not post images but will adjust the brightness and exposure compensation tomorrow to see how that works out. WDR was set to 2 earlier but just seemed to wash out the shadows way too much.