I've been using those IRs for about three years now They work fine and throw a fair amount of IR out to about 60-80 feet. I had that first one you listed and it crapped out, with no warning, after about a year and a half. Replaced that one with tis one, but I'm using it to light up the whole back yard, roughly 1/2-3/4 acre -
I've been using those IRs for about three years now They work fine and throw a fair amount of IR out to about 60-80 feet. I had that first one you listed and it crapped out, with no warning, after about a year and a half. Replaced that one with tis one, but I'm using it to light up the whole back yard, roughly 1/2-3/4 acre -
I have this IPC-HFW1831C-PIR mini-bullet. It's a nice little camera, I like its features as a front-door cam. But the picture at night really sucks for any distance further than the porch. A lot of that I think is because it's next to the porch light. The porch shows up well, but anything beyond that is dark and too washed out to see.
The problem is the amount of dynamic range there is in that picture. You have the very bright exposure from the light bulb and very low light areas of the outer yard. The camera simply cannot expose for that wide a range. Currently it is setting it's exposure for the bright areas which makes the low light areas become nearly black. Ultimately, you need to find a way to get the scene more evenly covered by the light. It might mean reducing the wattage of the bulb in the light, cutting the bushes to reduce the amount of light being bounced back, getting the yard brighter, or moving the camera where it won't have such a huge difference between the bright and dark areas (by getting the bright area out of the center of the frame) or a combination of all of these things.
Try a very low (?20 to 40) wattage bulb in the porch light. At night it will still be very helpful. I sometimes even used an adapter to "christmas" 7W lights.
I would try a little faster shutter to try to knock the IR bounce off the sides. Did you try manual shutter so that you can lower the gain? Do you have the turret or the bullet? If the bullet, the near is the top IR and the far is the bottom IR (or reversed would need to check LOL), and you...
Try a very low (?20 to 40) wattage bulb in the porch light. At night it will still be very helpful. I sometimes even used an adapter to "christmas" 7W lights.
I picked up a string of led lights with medium base cheap from amazon, and use them in places I need a little light.
They are 2.5 watts, and perfect for just enough light for a camera to work well.
We mow 3+ acres for a yard. Takes 3 hours plus trimming the edges. Keeps the wife out of the bar.
I would try a little faster shutter to try to knock the IR bounce off the sides. Did you try manual shutter so that you can lower the gain? Do you have the turret or the bullet? If the bullet, the near is the top IR and the far is the bottom IR (or reversed would need to check LOL), and you...
I've been using those IRs for about three years now They work fine and throw a fair amount of IR out to about 60-80 feet. I had that first one you listed and it crapped out, with no warning, after about a year and a half. Replaced that one with tis one, but I'm using it to light up the whole back yard, roughly 1/2-3/4 acre -
@Bitslizer It's hard for me to say it's "truly" a 45 degree pattern. There is a brighter area down the center which looks like maybe 30-45 degrees, but it throws so much IR it's lighting up everything. In my case, it's soffit mounted about 11 feet off the ground and is angled straight out into the back yard with no downward tilt. It lights up an area about 220x300 with no problem, if that helps.
I would try a little faster shutter to try to knock the IR bounce off the sides. Did you try manual shutter so that you can lower the gain? Do you have the turret or the bullet? If the bullet, the near is the top IR and the far is the bottom IR (or reversed would need to check LOL), and you...
Unfortunately I've tried the WDR@50 and moving the camera so the porch light is not in the frame, and none of that appears to have helped. I'll try changing the "always on" color setting to IR/B&W tonight and see if I can see further than 5 feet ffs.
I haven't really tried that many things so I'm not giving up yet, but it has crossed my mind that maybe it's just a crap camera for night (anything's possible, right?)
I present you a review of HFW-1831E camera. This is a h265 Lite series model, most likely equipped with fairly new IMX334 Sony sensor. This is a 1/1.8 inch, 8 megapixel CMOS with a pixel size of 2 micrometers. I got a model with 4mm lens, giving a horizontal FOV of around 87 degrees. I will...
I present you a review of HFW-1831E camera. This is a h265 Lite series model, most likely equipped with fairly new IMX334 Sony sensor. This is a 1/1.8 inch, 8 megapixel CMOS with a pixel size of 2 micrometers. I got a model with 4mm lens, giving a horizontal FOV of around 87 degrees. I will...
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