Warm LED Camera Light

[MarkusAgustus]

Hello,

I'm looking for a new camera. My IPC-B5442E-Z4E stopped working. I'm considering buying the 6mm EmpireTech 4K Bullet IP Camera Warm LED IP67 with 1/1.2 sensor. I've never owned a camera with the warm LED lights. I have a few questions about them.

1. Are these LED lights on all the time?
2. Are the LED lights triggered on motion?
3. How bright are they?
- I've seen many videos from the perspective of the camera but none looking at the camera that shows how much they illuminate.
4. Can the LED lights be controlled? Turned on or off through software?

I'm just trying to get a sense for what the cameras will look like when the LED light is engaged and if it is on all the time. All my current cameras have IR lights so they are not too obvious. Please advise. Thank you..

 

[Andykev]

I have a Uniview Owl VIew which has the 1/1.8 shutter, and "warm light". There are no IR lights. The white light is not on all the time, and (on my camera) you can disable if you wish. This would be the option if the camera is at a place which has good surrounding lights (ie. parking lot, well lit streetlights, etc.).
My camera is in the backyard. On very dark, clear nights, the "warm light" comes on automatically. On overcast/cloudy nights, there is sufficient "indirect light" which lets the camera capture the image quite well w/o the white light. On moon lit nights, esp. on full moon, the camera image looks like daylight. Not kidding.
(I posted pictures under thread "Cameras" "Uniview" "Owl View". Some members claimed the screen capture was fakes or actually at night. It wasn't Depending on light, motion sometimes is a bit blurred, but on full moon nights the motion is clear as in daylight.

Your 1/1.2 sensor shold be even better.

As to the question of triggered, no it is either on or off on the Owl View. Check the docs for the one you are looking at.
They do not trigger on motion on the Owl view and perhaps same on yours. My other cameras with IR lights, those are on at night all the time, no motion activation.
How bright? It's a dim light about the same as an old car's dome light with the yellowed plastic cover, or a dim AA cell flashlight/pen light.
You can easliy notice the white light is on vs an IR camera with the dim red dots. Thw white light is much more noticable, but it is in no way like a flood light.
Some cameras DO have a motion activation (intruder), even with flashing red/blue light to scare away trespassers. I don't want anything like that.
Again check the specs on your camera. They all have different settings or options. For my residential application, I do not want to draw attention to the camera.
But in a business/commercial area, having the intruder light flash and some even have an audible alarm. Depends on what you want.

 

[bigredfish]

Hello,

I'm looking for a new camera. My IPC-B5442E-Z4E stopped working. I'm considering buying the 6mm EmpireTech 4K Bullet IP Camera Warm LED IP67 with 1/1.2 sensor. I've never owned a camera with the warm LED lights. I have a few questions about them.

1. Are these LED lights on all the time?
2. Are the LED lights triggered on motion?
3. How bright are they?
- I've seen many videos from the perspective of the camera but none looking at the camera that shows how much they illuminate.
4. Can the LED lights be controlled? Turned on or off through software?

I'm just trying to get a sense for what the cameras will look like when the LED light is engaged and if it is on all the time. All my current cameras have IR lights so they are not too obvious. Please advise. Thank you..

1- Yes if you dont have enough ambient light at night. Cameras need light
2- No
3- realistically 25-30ft of usable light, but you'll see some out to 50. They're bright you're not going to hide them
4- yes you can set the time they come on and off and the brightness

They cant see IR and have no IR

About 25ft to far edge of dock, another 25-30ft across canal




With added floods behind the camera to its right