Looking for Good color night vision Dahua camera

[cableguy2020]

Hi all, and thank you love this forum. I am looking for suggestions on some good night vision cameras preferable Dahua brand. Any suggestions?

The front of my house has a little lighting but the back and sides is pretty much pitch black. I would like to see some color in the cameras as I am tired of the black and white night vision lol.

Thanks to all.

 

[wittaj]

What are the goals of the camera - ID or OVERVIEW?

What distance?

Are you ok with running white LEDs on the camera?

All cameras need light, either visible or IR and at a certain distance, IR will be needed unless you have stadium quality light.

 

[cableguy2020]

Wittaj, Thanks.
Overview, distance around 30-50 feet. I'm not a fan of running white leds, prefer them to be like on motion but not on at all times. Preferable 4K, lol.

Thanks

 

[bigredfish]

Odds are good that you won't have the light to run color at night without either the onboard LED's or some very good exterior flood lights.

Color night vision is a marketing term not a technology.

Streetlights help


Onboard LED's Plus Streetlights help


In dark black areas without external lights, you'll have to run onboard LED's


Driveways can be lit up with 100 watt bulbs in the coach lights

 

[cableguy2020]

Okay so what are you suggesting?

 

[bigredfish]

So for zero light the 4K-T which only comes in fixed 2.8 or 3.6mm (might be a 6mm?). Onboard white LEDs only

EmpireTech 8MP 1/1.2" CMOS Full-color Fixed-focal Warm LED Turret Security Camera IPC-Color4K-T

8MP 1/1.2" CMOS image sensor Built-in warm light and the max. illumination distance is 50 m Supports max. 256 G Micro SD card Built-in Mic 12 VDC/PoE power supply ePoE, IP67 protection SMD 3.0

empiretech01.com

Or the new Varifocal 4MP 54PRO or 3449 Tioc Pro. They both have onboard white and/or IR

I’d probably use those all around if you must have color

EmpireTech IPC-T54PRO-ZE 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP WizColor Vari-focal Two-way T

Estimated delivery to the United States in 2 weeks 4-MP 1/1.8" CMOS image sensor, low luminance, and high definition image. Outputs max. 4 MP (2688 × 1520) @25/30 fps. Built-in multi-core light, the max. IR distance is 60 m and the max. warm light distance is 50 m. With deep learning algorithm...

empiretech01.com

EmpireTech IPC-Color4M-TZ 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP WizColor TiOC PRO Vari-focal

Available for pre-order, shipping to the US takes about 2 weeks 4-MP 1/1.8" CMOS image sensor, low luminance, and high definition image. Built-in multi-core light, the max. IR distance is 50 m and the max. warm light distance is 50 m. Intelligent monitoring: Abnormality detection Alarm: 1 in, 1...

empiretech01.com

 

[wittaj]

^and keep in mind you will need to run the onboard white LEDs if you don't have light.

Sometimes we have to just accept we need to use infrared.

And the 8MP above does not see infrared so do not buy it unless you plan to use the onboard lighting.

 

[cableguy2020]

Thank you Bigredfish!