Paranoid much?

[bigredfish]

@Teken
That's Auto-tracking. I'm not up watching for druggies at almost 1am and honestly, on most targets I doubt you could manually do as good a job as the auto track.

Not using IR, I have it set to color at night for a couple of reasons:

1) I'm using it primarily to watch for humans entering the neighborhood, but it also doubles as a backup LPR cam for Exiting vehicles via a spotter cam telling it to zoom to the intersection when vehicles are leaving. You can't do both with one camera in IR mode due to the very different exposure requirements
2- The various street signs reflect the IR quite badly and blow out the image and make it lose track

@wtimothyholman
I have lots of wives mad at me for various blame, some well deserved. Adding one more to the list is no problem, glad to help



Distance to near curb on street about 40 ft. Distance to far sidewalk IVS rule about 100ft




"LPR" captures at night

 

[SkyLake]

I have to admit, if that camera is tracking you, it looks like a friggin horror smiley face following you

Lovin it

 

[wittaj]

I doubt at 40 feet he is hearing it. Especially with an occasional car going by and insect noises and chirps and what not and it is in a somewhat open area so there isn't a lot of deflection of sound I would think.

The 49225 is fairly silent and someone would not hear it at 40 feet. Underneath it, it sounds like a faint R2D2 LOL, but I doubt most hear it.

 

[bigredfish]

Agree.
It’s just so frickin obvious that many spot it, and some look long enough to realize it’s tracking them. With IR on it’s downright spooky.

 

[bigredfish]

If I could run it in B&W with IR it may be better, but with the many signs reflecting the IR in that location, I kinda have to use color.

The sister camera to this one with the 1/1.8 sensor would be much better and that’s the plan to replace this one.

SD6AL433XA-HNR - Dahua International

SD6AL433XA-HNR

www.dahuasecurity.com

Great News for all of you!

Dahua should be coming out with a new PTZ with a huge sensor in the coming days that will put this one with the 1/1.8” sensor to shame SD6AL433XA-HNR
as @tech101 and I just bought the last two Andy had in stock!

grrrrrrrrrr

 

[tech101]

HAHA, Has andy shipped it yet maybe we can swap ? Also what will be the sensor size and cost.. Also will it have laser. @Parley also just placed an order as well I know.

 

[sebastiantombs]

Ya know, this is always going to be chasing the latest and greatest. The saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it" can also be applied here.

 

[SyconsciousAu]

Ya know, this is always going to be chasing the latest and greatest. The saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it" can also be applied here.

Wash out your mouth for such heresy.

 

[wtimothyholman]

Great News for all of you!

Dahua should be coming out with a new PTZ with a huge sensor in the coming days that will put this one with the 1/1.8” sensor to shame SD6AL433XA-HNR
as @tech101 and I just bought the last two Andy had in stock!

grrrrrrrrrr

The question to me is this: will there will be an update to the SD49225XA-HNR that supports auto-tracking at a similar price point? Or am I better off just buying what is currently available, because Dahua will be deprecating any possibility of auto-tracking from the new model?

 

[bigredfish]

 

[wittaj]

The question to me is this: will there will be an update to the SD49225XA-HNR that supports auto-tracking at a similar price point? Or am I better off just buying what is currently available, because Dahua will be deprecating any possibility of auto-tracking from the new model?

Given they officially pulled autotracking from that model some time ago, but if you buy from Andy it still comes with autotracking, I would be shocked if once this stock is gone that there would be a new PTZ in this price range with autotrack. I think after this stock is gone, the cheapest PTZ is going to be over $700.

Dahua prove me wrong please!

 

[wtimothyholman]

Given they officially pulled autotracking from that model some time ago, but if you buy from Andy it still comes with autotracking, I would be shocked if once this stock is gone that there would be a new PTZ in this price range with autotrack. I think after this stock is gone, the cheapest PTZ is going to be over $700.

Dahua prove me wrong please!

You are probably right, but maybe Andy can provide some inside information.

@EMPIRETECANDY, do you know if any of the new Dahua PTZ cameras coming out this year will include auto-track functionality in the $400 price range?