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@EMPIRETECANDY kindly provided 1 of these units for testing and I specifically wanted to focus on 1 area, night captures and IR as I know a number of people have been interested in understanding how this compares to the fixed lens variants in this respect and have been wanting a 4MP vari to add to their systems if it can perform well. As daytime image is very similar (spoiler, its good) to its fixed lens brothers I didn’t see a need to focus there.
Therefore I wanted to put up a post detailing the night performance of this new IPC-HDW5442T-ZE 4MP vari turret from Dahua. In the following video (which is long) I demonstrate the cameras ability to handle night captures utilizing a variety of lighting situations (no light, 1 bulb, flood lights) and in B&W as well as forced color.
My personal opinion on this camera from my testing is as follows:
Video is uploaded in native res so make sure you select as high as you can go (at least 1440)
Timestamps for the video to help you navigate:
HTH and please let me know with any questions as always
WC
@EMPIRETECANDY kindly provided 1 of these units for testing and I specifically wanted to focus on 1 area, night captures and IR as I know a number of people have been interested in understanding how this compares to the fixed lens variants in this respect and have been wanting a 4MP vari to add to their systems if it can perform well. As daytime image is very similar (spoiler, its good) to its fixed lens brothers I didn’t see a need to focus there.
Therefore I wanted to put up a post detailing the night performance of this new IPC-HDW5442T-ZE 4MP vari turret from Dahua. In the following video (which is long) I demonstrate the cameras ability to handle night captures utilizing a variety of lighting situations (no light, 1 bulb, flood lights) and in B&W as well as forced color.
My personal opinion on this camera from my testing is as follows:
- Great overall cam with a nice image from the 4MP sensor and vari optics on this
- Slightly darker image on this unit vs the fixed lens variants which is to be expected due to differing aperture capabilities of the lenses (f1.6 on fixed vs f.18 on vari) and with that, light sensitivity differences too
- Nightvision is very good BUT does need the Auto IR tweaked in FW (already reported this back to Dahua) due to washing out subjects dead center of frame. However this can be mitigated as I show in this video
- Sensor noise is minimal and easily mitigated as it is a crawl rather than a pulse (much trickier to remove pulsing noise using config)
- For those new to security cams or that have a hard time picking a fixed lens for their specific install location then this IS the turret you want currently
- Finally, in my opinion this is a cam that can be considered as a replacement for the legendary 5231 turret just make sure as always that you take into account your install location, lighting available and above all, dial in your camera to cater for these, DON’T RELY ON AUTO !
Video is uploaded in native res so make sure you select as high as you can go (at least 1440)
Timestamps for the video to help you navigate:
- 16 seconds - Start of B&W only, no light section
- 2m 20 seconds - Start of B&W with 1 x 60w bulb
- 4m 40 seconds - Start of forced color with 1 x 60w bulb
- 6m 50 seconds - Start of B&W with 2 x 150w flood lights
- 9m - Start of forced color with 2 x 150w flood lights
- 11m 10 seconds - Start of my tips on mitigating IR power / washout
HTH and please let me know with any questions as always
WC