So what would you do? B&W or Color?

[bigredfish]

Installed a couple of the newish S3 variant 5442's at the old hood last week.

Yes they are better at light pickup than the older S2's, maybe not game changer but better.

Anyhow, On one location I'm trying to decide whether to run B&W vs color at night. Even at 1/120 cars traveling 35+mph show blur and dark areas from trees etc make it impossible to see much from an overview standpoint in color. So along with the addition of a new Tendelux 200ft IR blaster for the LPR camera facing the same direction, I tried running B&W with on-camera IR OFF (as it bounces terribly off that speed limit sign)

I have 2 color cameras at the entrance immediately to the left of this scene that allow me color ID etc... and its the only entrance to the neighborhood.

What do you think?

Both settings could use some adjustment.
Less Sharpness/Gain and more DNR on the color shot and more contrast on the B&W


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[bigredfish]

Color on the fixed entrance camera just to the left of the scene above

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[wittaj]

Since you already get color from other cameras, the B/W does provide a marginally better image.

The test would be someone walking on either sidewalk at night.

 

[bigredfish]

Yep, we think alike. Thats the major downside of color and the tree shadows over a large area. People flat disappear in the shadows on the left

 

[bigredfish]

The new Tendelux 200ft IR blaster makes plates Pop! and does away with the graininess I had before

 

[looney2ns]

I would try to get the 4 coach lights on the right of the frame out of the FOV.

 

[bigredfish]

That’s actually harder than it looks due to the way it had to be mounted on the side of a square pole. It’s angled as far as it will go. It would take re-drilling and fishing the wire 14 ft up on a ladder on not so flat ground. It could be done, I’ve just not felt enough pain to do it yet

 

[looney2ns]

There is always