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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
I can only imagine how many cameras are at @CamCrazy's house ... ;-) The scooter footage is "illuminating" (pun intended) as @CCTVCam points out, since because there the floodlight isn't on, the gain (and NR) has to get pushed up. This is why I'd be curious to see footage with NO lights (and... -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
Nice @Chokolinho ... albeit those motion activated floods provide some much need light - wonder what motion would look like without those? Any chance you have a T54PRO-ZE we can see side-by side using same settings? -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
So for something totally different, here's a comparison of the AUDIO of the 5442-S3 versus the T54PRO-ZE ... but I don't think there is much to conclude from it. Per the picture below, the two cameras are right next to each other ... HOWEVER, I'm guessing that since the 5442-S3 is higher (and... -
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Dahua 5442/T54IR vs the rest
Fixed it for 'ya @Parley .... ;-) "I can see through the front window of the house across the street and my neighbor is SMOKING HOT! I've never seen them before with the naked eye" Mods: Please remove if inappropriate as a bit edgy, but meant to be funny. -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
You are the man for the mission @CamCrazy - the 5442-S3, 54PRO-ZE, and 54PRO-AS are going to get wrung through the ("light") wringer! ;-) BTW, I think(?) are on the same page when you quipped "freeze frame image quality is king" ... since (as others smarter than me will point), CCTV's need to... -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
LOL @CamCrazy that you can "take one for the team" and order an AS to compare for us ... ;-) Based on what I can gather from your background, it sounds like you would do excellent shoot-out! -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
YEP! I'm never sure about the Min. Illumination Specs (someone in the CCTV can explain how IRE is supposed to provide a common baseline for comparison), but since ideally(!) Dahua used the same testing methodology, I believe that 0.0006->0.0004 is more than you would expect from just going from... -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
The AS also has a fixed Iris ... so no depth-of-field adjustment, whereas the ZE has a P-Iris that you have some control over. Although shouldn't be that big of deal for the AS since it's a wide-angle lens (2.8/3.6mm ... and recall that there were focus complaints about the 6mm lens on the... -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
GREAT POST - love the wording ... as yea, as we say in the photo world, it's all about the light! -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
Looking forward to a AS versus ZE shootout. Would love to see a no-IR, no-LED (i.e. color only) comparison in very low light using manual settings - curious what the F/1.0 lens of the AS can do. -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
Love that "something fun to play with" attitude - "he who dies with the most toys (and got to do the most "tinkering") wins! ;-)" -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
I agree that when the light kicks on, the background gets much darker ... so some adjustment in the exposure triangle is being done. I asked earlier about if it's possible that the Noise Reduction is introducing some blur. I.e. my understanding of 3D NR is it's a multi-frame continuous... -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
Great video ... love the outfit @Tinman ... as it looks like something I would wear (except when putting on my "color checker" outfit!) when doing late night camera testing. At at least to my uninformed opinion, the LED light is doing what it should do - lights up when you "enter" (providing a... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
Good question and I should have explained that it's 1920x1080 because my program parses the ffmpeg stream and saves that size as image files. So to create the time-lapse (do you really want to watch 12+ hours in real-time?!?), I grab an image/minute at 60fps and use ffmpeg to generate the movie. -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
I posted this in the "T54PRO-ZE versus 5442-S3 low-light" thread, but figured it's worth cross-posting here since it includes some daytime footage. While the T54PRO-ZE is much better than the 5442-S3 (and the shutter speed is 3X faster!) in (this!) low-light situation, there's not a whole lotta... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
Here's a quick timelapse showing the Moon Shadows from last night (along with some daytime footage) from the T54PRO-ZE and 5442-S3. While the T54PRO-ZE is much better than the 5442-S3 (and the shutter speed is 3X faster!) in (this!) low-light situation, there's not a whole lotta difference... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
BTW, do NOT judge the on-board light based on just these pictures. First, it's basically impossible to evenly light an entire scene using a single point source of light (if I was inside taking pictures, I'd do bounce flash off a ceiling ... LOL that's kinda hard to do outside!) and even more so... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
Yea, the improvement (WITHOUT the LED) over the 5442-Z3 is impressive (I'm thinking of ordering another!), especially the color handling ... since that much more easily shows noise. Here's a few pictures. I put the NO LED light first ... so you can easily compare to that. The 2nd image is the... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
Some more pictures from tonight - very similar lighting conditions as previous couple of nights as it was an hour+ after sunset and the moon is not out yet ... albeit tonight is clear versus the previous cloudy weather, but I don't think making much difference. But should have some decent moon... -
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EmpireTech NVR / 5442 S3 Cams - Webplugin Not Functioning in Edge Browser
I don't have the NVR, but do have a 5442-S3 ... and a T54PRO-ZE. Both of those seem to working fine WITHOUT the plugin using both Edge and Chrome - this is on Windoze 11 and a recent build ... so never installed the plug-in. I.e. I can view the live image, adjust zoom/focus/etc., see and modify... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
@EMPIRETECANDY : The on-board light is NOT turned on ... as I'm interested in assessing the camera's sensor/lens/processing capabilities. @bigredfish : LOL bringing "3000-5000 lumens to the scene" ... and yes, that's why I wrote "if you NEED to identify people, by all means "light it up."... -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
The PNG's are HUGE ... and Dahua should really provide an option to generate a JPEG in addition to a PNG. From a comment of mine about the T54PRO-ZE (but applies elsewhere too) "the Snapshot button on the web interface ... generates a (huge) PNG file ... which if I pull the 8,392KByte file into... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
TL;DR is I would recommend people use Firmware 0731 ... but be CAREFUL with it because you can easily push the camera too far and end up with a hot noisy mess! So fortunately it was moderately cloudy again tonight and the moon hasn't quite come out yet ... so I think the light level is about... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
I really appreciate commentary from the super-smart people like you @bigredfish. Yea, I look at it from a traditional photog perspective because that's my background and it's the "baseline" - how well can the sensor/lens/processing convert photons into an image. 1 - My interest in comparing the... -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
No sweat @EMPIRETECANDY - stuff happens ... and progress is sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Good this issue got a lot of visibility and thanks for making the older FW available. Ditto what @steve1225 said about the software development process. And I hope that you (and Dahua)... -
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Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series
WOW ... the Color4M-T crushed the T54PRO-ZE in your testing ... but (as @duplo posted as I did), which firmware do you have on the T54PRO-ZE? Per this thread, I just rolled back from 0928 to 0731 and the gain control is completely different. Any explanation why when doing "Color with the porch... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
Thanks for the tip @EMPIRETECANDY and I just down-revved back to the 0731 firmware ... and yes, similar to the classic Spinal Tap Reference, the gain control now goes to 11! Holy crap I can really light up my front yard now ... albeit the noise does increase ... but the "62" limitation in the... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
While I need to do more testing, I find that the T54PRO-ZE seems to take gain boost (even up to 100%!) very well whereas the 5442-S3 gets noisy at the top-end. This assumes you have a shutter speed that provides at least some illumination ... and it's pretty wild to slide that gain over to... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
So here's some pics and videos taken tonight an hour after sunset. The exposure settings on the 5442-S3 and T540PRO-ZE were identically Manual, 1/50s shutter, 100 gain, 50 2D-NR, 50 3-D NR. Yes, that is a slower shutter and higher gain that desired ... but with the light level here an hour... -
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T54PRO-ZE versus T5442-S3 in low light
Yes, totally agree that CCTV's are most important to track movement and be able to identify them. It does look to me like the 54IR (5442-S3) is pretty stressed even at 1/10s exposure (50% gain was a noisy mess!) ... whereas there is some "hope" with the T54PRO-ZE ... albeit there's certainly...