I found this post on official Dahua Facebook page..
I don't know - does this will be next gen of cams with better WizColor hardware / implementation or any firmware upgrade fixing in actual models...
@EMPIRETECANDY do you have any news here?
Hoping it will come to existing supported (i.e. not EoL) cameras via firmware update, but not holding my breath. Dahua seems to have a thing for abandoning older cameras—even ones they haven't adequately replaced, and not pushing out new firmware features to older cameras that are still supported. Also, the demo images here are clearly synthetic (i.e. they took a stock photo and manipulated it rather than showing an actual image—even a still image which would already be better than reality), which isn't confidence inspiring. Many previous demo images were real—ideal, but real. What I'd really like to see is a comparison between WizColor 1 and WizColor 2.
What is smart illumination? Is that white light and IR ?
Yes, sadly. If you have a white-LED-only camera, the "smart" illumination feature is fully dumb, not really bringing anything new to the table. To get around this, I've been playing around with using
Blue Iris to smartly control the white LED and exposure parameters—with decent results. Still wish they'd apply the fixes natively in the firmware so it would be quicker/smoother/less kludgy (for example, the LED could fade and the exposure could closely follow, resulting in a smoother experience). Another disappointing bug is that 100% max brightness on any Auto mode (regardless of exposure) maxes out around 50% of the full LED brightness achievable in Manual mode. But if I use Manual mode, I lose overexposure protection (which adjusts exposure, not the LED, so as not to wash out license plates)—despite the setting still being visible and active, and the LED comes on during the day (which I guess I could code around with a time-check if it really bothered me). But all this really should be handled natively by the camera firmware, where implementation can be smoother than anything we can kludge together outside of the camera.
Throw the word PRO in the camera name and people will buy it like its the next best thing LOL.
Well, they threw "PRO" in the name of the 2449 camera, and while that trick worked wonders for the undeserving 3449 camera, it doesn't seem to have worked so well for the more deserving 2449! (Can't speak for anyone else, but the presence of that in the name didn't make any difference for me either way.)
edit: Come to think of it, when the 3449 ("TiOC") camera first released, it didn't have WizColor technology—that was added in a later firmware update. So maybe there's hope that some existing WizColor 1.0 cameras will get WizColor 2.0 via a firmware update. And here's to holding out hope that maybe if the 3449 gets WizColor 2.0 that perhaps they can fix its color, contrast, motion blur, and AI/fractal image appearance issues in the process and it end up being a decent camera after all!
