Flintstone61
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it's like adding another user than admin if I'm not too forgetful. As I recall on some dahua's there is an ONVIF user/pass and an Admin user/pass.
HIK might have similar.
HIK might have similar.
I would recommend resetting to factory defaults and starting from there. You can reset all the values to default without losing the IP settings by going to maintenance and using the "restore" option. I run mine in IR mode at night because I don't have enough light in the field of view for color. I use the following settings and I suggest you give them a try. Exposure Mode- Automatic, Max shutter 1/30, max gain 51, Blur-noise trade-off- all the way to low motion blur. Saturation, Contrast, Brightness, Sharpness at default of 50 (Some of my Axis cameras I run Saturation and Contrast at 60 for a better image). WDR- Off (WDR negatively impacts the night image on this camera where it doesn't with my other Axis cameras). The tradeoff to disabling the WDR at night are those street lights might washout faces.
The area directly in front of your house looks a little darker than the rest, you may need to enable the white LED's at night to add a little more light to the scene. You can turn on the white lights by creating an AOA (Axis Object Analytics) scenario and set parameters when to trigger the scenario (person walking in x area etc.). You then go to Events and add a rule to activate the lights when that scenario is triggered. You can also activate them based on a schedule.
Also something to take into consideration, this camera has an aperture of F1.7 zoomed out with a wide field of view and an aperture of F4.0 when fully zoomed in. I'd say you're probably closer to the F4.0 so you're going to need a little extra light in the scene.
People walking by. I may go full out which is 48mm. All the way in is 12mm. IMHO it is probably closer to 1/2 of that going by the other cameras that I have.Is the cam placement designed to get people walking or plates? As far as I can tell, the placement is bad for both. It’s at a 90 degree angle to the road so plates will be impossible. It’s also not zoomed in close enough to capture faces…
I went ahead and changed the values to what you recommended. I will start from there tonight. I think going to a 1/30 shutter will make a big difference on the light situation. The zoom setting is at 3.19 on a scale of 1-4. Thank You for your help. Like I said before this camera's settings are different than what I am used to with the Hikvision and Dahus cameras.
Well, this morning the white light did not turn off on the camera at daylight. Another item I have to solve. I think it has to do with the IR-cut-filter part of the program. At least the camera is showing promise, and I am making headway inch by inch.
From what I read you have to have the IR-cut-filter on auto and there is a threshold slider that goes from bright to dark. The white light turns on and off with that. Now if I have to do it by a schedule or rule activation, please let me know how or where that is done. I read the manual, and I did not see anything on it. Thank You in advance.How do you have the white light set to activate? On a schedule or by rule activation? If by schedule, is the camera synced to an NTP server with the proper time zone selected?
From what I read you have to have the IR-cut-filter on auto and there is a threshold slider that goes from bright to dark. The white light turns on and off with that. Now if I have to do it by a schedule or rule activation, please let me know how or where that is done. I read the manual, and I did not see anything on it. Thank You in advance.
Edit: I am trying to run the camera in color 24/7.
I went back in and edited a couple of things one was making it public. See if it works now.^The video is showing as private.
Here is some video from last night. Also clicking on Vivid in the Stream Profile made a difference for the better. I was surprised at that. One other surprise with this camera is the Sharpness. I have it set at 100. I put my Dahua PTZ with the 4/3" sensor to the same area for comparison. With that camera I have the sharpness set at 25. I would say the video from the two cameras was comparable. Maybe slightly less noise from the Axis. Smitcans, I will go ahead and set up the schedule for the white light as you suggested. This morning, I also moved my nighttime security camera a little to give more light in that area.
This is Your second video, which shows that this camera can do nice static image at night, but moving people are a problem..
Image of moving people are noisy and ghosted... there are huge compression artifacts around people (but this can be Youtube compression).
Sony Image Sensor is good, but for me it looks like video processing (ISP - Image Signal Processor) is not at 2024 / AI standards...
Can You download footage directly to forum as part of post (like image)?
ps. at what shutter time this footage were done? 1/30 1/60 1/120?
^^^^^ I agree with you. Hopefully tonight I can take care of a good portion of that issue. I was hoping to up the shutter speed to 1/120 but when I did that it darkened things up too much at the current settings. That is also the darkest area of that scene.
shorter shutter speed will not help - main problem is that there is to little light catches by sensor in that place.
All problems (noise, ghosting, wrong color reconstruction, lack of details) are mostly from that...
only blurry part is from too long exposure...
I don't know what tools You have there in Axis configuration (like gain/ISO control, 2D and 3D noise reduction etc)..