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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    There is a small office complex across the street (in these images it's to the upper-right and not visible from this camera). For some time, perhaps more than a year, for a few nights a week a car leaves this parking lot at some wee hour of the morning. The headlights shine across to my lot...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    I posted the pics because someone wanted to see an example of low-light (or IR-illuminated) motion blur of my 1/2.9" camera, which caught a respectible few frames of a bat flying through. The T54IR-ZE-S3 (1/1.8" sensor) is priced at $195 (currently sold out on IP Camtalk store) and the...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    I tweaked some camera settings. Changes I made - Backlight mode was off, now is BLC. That brightened things up. Exposure shutter is now 1/60 (it was auto I think). I've scaled these down to 50%. Here is a current image capture: I can remotely turn off the IR flood. Here is how it looks...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    This is single frame from a recent motion-detection capture from my IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2. I think this was a bat. It's been a cold April here, colder than normal. Ambient temp was probably 35 - 40 F. This was 1:18 am. This was the main stream, substream is disabled. Encoding mode was...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    A camera that I have now that I think has good night vision (or maybe I should say, good IR vision with external IR flood) is the IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2 (4mp 1/2.9). I see that it currently costs about $80. The IPC-T5442T-ZE is $195 (but it has zoom). Is there a 2mp version of the 2431 with 1/2.9...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    Is there a varifocal 1/1.8 4mp? You know what, I probably don't need 4mp. 2mp would be fine in a 1/2.9 if it had the same (or better?) low-light performance as a 4mp 1/1.8. But it has to have the zoom I want.
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    I'd like to monitor an area about 100 ft from the camera, about 50 ft wide. At night, 1 street light nearby, color not necessary (can be IR / BW). I don't think I'm interested in anything larger than 4mp, but I probably need some sort of vari-focal. I believe the IPC-HDW2441T-ZS would fit...
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    New Dahua Tech / Cams coming soon - Wiz Colour?

    My HDW2431T is 1/3" and I think it has pretty good low-light ability. I see HDW3449TM-AS-LED has 1/2.7" sensor - so maybe a little better, and price can be as low as $100 USD to $150? Is there any 3449 that has SD-card for in-camera recording? What is least expensive 1/1.8" Dahua turrent...
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    New Dahua Tech / Cams coming soon - Wiz Colour?

    Ok, thanks for that. So what (eye-ball / turret camera) has better night / IR image quality than the HDW2431T but is not as expensive as the 3449? (my 2431 has multiple streams, metal shell, in-camera recording) don't need TIOC.
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    New Dahua Tech / Cams coming soon - Wiz Colour?

    So, what's the verdict on the 2449? I might be wanting a few new cameras, I stumbled across the IPC-HDW2449T-S-LED on ebay, price is pretty good. My primary use would be in darkness with external IR flood LED. I have a IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2 set up like that, so it would be useful to know the...
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    How to select playback point on time-line (in-camera recording playback) HDW2431T ?

    During playback of in-camera recordings, I can select a day from the calendar to see when recordings were made that day, recordings are indicated on the time-line. I can hit play, and the recordings are played back one after the other. But I can't seem to use the mouse to select a particular...
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    What are my choices for fully-functional web browsers for Dahua cameras these days?

    I didn't think it was possible to upgrade these chinese-market dahua cameras that had english firmware hacked into them prior to sale without risking bricking them. Either that, or there isin't any actual english firmware available for some of these models. Am I wrong about this?
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    How to access camera Dahua archives now that IE is dead?

    Just a quick question regarding this web-browser issue - do Hikvision cameras have the same issue - that you need to use IE to work with them?
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    Has anyone built their own IR illumination solution from discrete LED's or modules?

    At the end of january I ordered what is known as an "LED COB Chip Light IR" from ebay. These are arrays of LED's mounted on a backing plate. They come as small as 3 x 3 LED's up to I think 10 x 10. What I got were advertised as 30 Watt (3 lines of 10 LED's). They were about $20 each, I got...
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