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4ever

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New member here. Looking for a minimum of one night vision camera for front yard with moderate ambient street lighting. Currently have Reolink cameras and need better night vision. Have lots of threads to sort through.
 

steve1225

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Look for 4 MP cameras with big 1/1.8 sensor...
In Dahua world this is 5442 and 5449 series which contains models with different chassis (bullet, turret, dome), zoom capabilities (constant focal vs zoom 1-4x or 3-12x), max apertures (F/1.0 is brighter that F/1.6 or F/1.8, but have shallow depth of field) and light capabilities (classic infrared IR, white lights)..

All of them works much better at night comparing to Reolink cameras.
All of them require some configuration changes (exposure settings etc) to get best of camera.
Most of them You can buy in Andy shop (EmpireTech | Security Protection | Security Cameras & NVRs or his amazon shop).

You can use search function in this forum and look for threads about different models of 5442 / 5449 series...
 

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Andy will have a sale just in time for you!
Price sheet is attached to the first post of the following thread:

 

4ever

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Look for 4 MP cameras with big 1/1.8 sensor...
In Dahua world this is 5442 and 5449 series which contains models with different chassis (bullet, turret, dome), zoom capabilities (constant focal vs zoom 1-4x or 3-12x), max apertures (F/1.0 is brighter that F/1.6 or F/1.8, but have shallow depth of field) and light capabilities (classic infrared IR, white lights)..

All of them works much better at night comparing to Reolink cameras.
All of them require some configuration changes (exposure settings etc) to get best of camera.
Most of them You can buy in Andy shop (EmpireTech | Security Protection | Security Cameras & NVRs or his amazon shop).

You can use search function in this forum and look for threads about different models of 5442 / 5449 series...
Thank you. Is there one style that is better than others for reducing spiders/webs? Two spiders seem to like my front Reolink bullet-style camera (my other cameras don't have this issue). I will be leaving the Reolink cameras up and adding at least one with night vision in the front.
 
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