Sensor size still the king for low light ?

[Abula]

DISCLAIMER: I'm no expert nor i claim to know much, just your average enthusiast home guy, so take my comments with a grain of salt.

I been in Surveillance cameras for more than two decades and while i never tested super high end gear, i always been happy with what Hikvision / Dahua has offer over the years, seeing how generation to generation we have been bigger sensors until we hit the 1/2.8 of the Starlight's / Dark fighters to the new ColorVu cameras.

A constant that has been happening is the bigger sensors generation to generation, until this past one, both Hikvision ColorVu G3 and Dahua WizColor started using smaller sensor, i personally expected bigger, but they moved from 1/1.2" to now 1/1.8". I though was a regression into how they would perform on low light conditions, but saw a video that kinda wake my interested,

Hikvision ColourVu 3.0 – Full Review, Test

So i been buying some Hikvision G2 n G3 and Dahua WizColor, and to my surprise, it seem new generation is performing up to par and maybe subjectively a little better under certain conditions.

So..... the sensor size not as important as it used to be?

 

[wittaj]

So far these cameras can't deny physics.

Cameras are trying to fake it with AI to use smaller sensors.

Works well for static images, but motion is crap.

We don't care about static images. We want to catch a perp moving at night.

I can tell by your attachments that those images are likely default/auto settings, which give a nice bright static image, but motion is likely crap.

Here was a freeze frame in the video review you linked.

Granted some of it may be Youtube, but the guy wasn't moving that fast and that image is poor. Plus the entire image is crap because of the flashing intruder light wreaking havoc on the image exposure.

 

[trempa92]

The G4 version that will release Q3-2027 will have 1/1.2. Confirmed by hik