Well it was better for a couple days. It still looks much better than it did originally regarding color saturation and richness at night with the current settings, however apparently I am still getting tons of blue pixelation artifacts dancing around against the clouds and sky, even in the grass or areas of the night photos that have full light on them.
To me it almost looks like compression artifacts or codec corruption.
To be honest I’ve wondered if it’s got a bad processor or something. Grass areas and even pavement has digital compression artifacts that dance around once time per second across the entire scene even during the daytime also which is why I keep thinking it’s codec or compression related. Video is never smooth, even pulling directly from the memory card. All of these issues remain the same regardless of the codec I choose also, H264, h264h, or h265. I understand with several cameras it’s necessary to adjust certain settings to reduce the pixel shifting/dancing issues, which I feel I have already done to a sufficient degree. Any further adjustment seemed to make it worse or dramatically reduced image quality. The scene looks good from the 5842t-ze that’s right next to it and doesn’t have the same pixel dancing issues. The night time pixel dancing issues are also still present if I set the color4kt to B&W viewing the same seen as the 5842 at night and no IR or white light turned on. The 5842 is crisp and clear (at least the areas that i can actually see with the 5842 which isn’t much without IR turned on), while the color4kt has pixelation in several areas and is much more blurry. I may just end up having to return the color4kt and getting another 5842, then leave the hikvision 180 full color for having color info at night, and using the 5842’s for doing detection and B&W IR at night.
