Snow exposure settings

Shockwave199

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I have all my cameras set to custom exposure as per day/night and all is well until the snow arrives. It's mostly not a huge problem on sunny days but cloudy days because of all the snow makes the exposure for dark areas pretty dark- very contrast. Cars are ok but people lose a lot of detail. I'm thinking that WDR could help but I don't have that on for typical reasons. Anyone have suggestions?

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Yeah, in most scenes I HATE WDR and what it does to the image, though some places its really necessary. Are you using a custom range?
 

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Yes I have custom range but I'd have to look at what I set it at. Been a long while since I did that.
 

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As it turns out all the cameras were on auto for daytime, hense the dark image with snow all over. What's working right now is custom shutter range 0.1 (10000)- 33.33 (30). Actually it's working very well. Snow, that huge white mass of brightness sure can make more trouble than just shoveling lol.
 

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As it turns out all the cameras were on auto for daytime, hense the dark image with snow all over. What's working right now is custom shutter range 0.1 (10000)- 33.33 (30). Actually it's working very well. Snow, that huge white mass of brightness sure can make more trouble than just shoveling lol.
We got 4-6 inches on the way....for Mpls. followed by 6 months of Darkness .:love: Will have to camp out late at work one of these nights and setup "snow Vision" settings for night.
 
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