IPC-HDW5442T-ZE New cam from Dahua :)

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I’m interested in that comparison with the 4K. For quality and night time as well
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Dahua IPC-HDW5442T-ZE 4MP Varifocal Turret - Night Perfomance testing

All @EMPIRETECANDY kindly provided 1 of these units for testing and I specifically wanted to focus on 1 area, night captures and IR as I know a number of people have been interested in understanding how this compares to the fixed lens variants in this respect and have been wanting a 4MP vari to...
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Lets get these reviews up boys and girls...

as of right now.. whos going to be reviewing?

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So set up the two cameras,

I think firmware is needed. I’d love for it to be automatically be able to focus on other thing beyond 10m.

White balance is a bit to high (hard to read number plates).

The night mode is aggressive so I’ll have to customise those options.
Being the IR lights

There is a little to much light which doesn’t allow you see items in the distance.


Camera has heaps of potential playing with the settings. Very happy with them!

Just new camera, will take some fine tuning :)
 
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random101 said:
So set up the two cameras,

I think firmware is needed. I’d love for it to be automatically be able to focus on other thing beyond 10m.

White balance is a bit to high (hard to read number plates).

The night mode is very aggressive so I’ll have to customise those options.
Being the IR lights

There is too much light which doesn’t allow you see items in the distance.
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What is the firmware build date? 2020-4?
 
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After adjusting the setting pretty heavily, turning the Ir right down.

One camera has good colour image at night.

The other gets washed out at the white fence and is hard to see past the fence line. I may consider leaving both in colour
 
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Don't flame me here for asking a question that may be obvious to some of you:
For those that know of this camera, how would it compare to the IPC-T2231T-ZS 2MP Starlight, for real quality and night time?
 
kbgator said:
For those that know of this camera, how would it compare to the IPC-T2231T-ZS 2MP Starlight, for real quality and night time?
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Based on my own comparison of the 5231E-ZE with the fixed focus 5442, I'd expect the 5442 to be significantly better.
 
tigerwillow1 said:
Based on my own comparison of the 5231E-ZE with the fixed focus 5442, I'd expect the 5442 to be significantly better.
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Thank you. I may look at the 5445 fixed focus as well. I just have to learn my requirements, and do some calcs with my current varifocal
 
The veri focus really needs a ptz to be effective.

But I like being able to have the door on one side of the screen and the the road on the other (focus is in the middle) which I can zoom in on.

As opposed to one or the other with fixed.

I’m happy with it all in all. Would strongly recommend it.
 
random101 said:
The veri focus really needs a ptz to be effective.

But I like being able to have the door on one side of the screen and the the road on the other (focus is in the middle) which I can zoom in on.

As opposed to one or the other with fixed.

I’m happy with it all in all. Would strongly recommend it.
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A varifocal is not really meant to be used like that. The idea is that you set the focal length just after you install it and then leave it.
 
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Zimberto said:
A varifocal is not really meant to be used like that. The idea is that you set the focal length just after you install it and then leave it.
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That’s basically how it is, but it gives me a few more options.

I’m much more glad I went the veri instead of a 2.8 for example
 
Motorized lens is easy for lens adjustment, PTZ right now bit limited models, cheap ones only SD1A203T-GN, SD1A404XB-GNR support IR, other ptz all big and much more expensive.
Powerful cams always bigger size, sure more expensive.
IPC-T5442TM-AS size much smaller with fixed lens.
 
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