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  1. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    well, i'm learning as I go, but so far, I'm liking sebastian's settings over yours, nothing personal. I'm not done yet, this is an incremental process. Part of this is just the challenge of seeing what I can tease out of this $200 camera.
  2. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    oh, when I had the iframe set to 15, same as the FPS, it looked awful, it was pumping from crisp to fuzzy every second. when I bumped the iframe count up to 60 (every 4 seconds at 15 fps), the pumping completely stopped. now, I was using the h.265 encoder, and thats a much more complex codec...
  3. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    i'd rather have sharp slightly noisy than the really blurry stuff the 2D NR is showing me. I started with both at zero, and turned one up 10 at a time, then the other, then tried combinations. To adjust the exposure settings, I'll turn the noise reduction way down so the image is pretty...
  4. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    ok, trying another set of parameters. lets see... h.264, 15 fps, 60 frames per iframe, 8192kbit/s video. manual shutter: 0-10ms, gain 0-75 exposure comp: 85 3D NR On, 3D=50, 2D=0 gamma: 100, Backlit: OFF this is grittier than the previous, but shows ok facial detail at 40-50 feet, and you...
  5. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    oooh, maybe I should mount a flood on the TRAILER, out of the field of view of the camera, and aimed at those woods on the left. muahahaha. trailer has 12V dual golf cart batts, AND solar charging. except any such mount would have to be removable for travel, and of course wouldn't be there...
  6. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    hmm, found this one. Amazon.com : Infrared Illuminator Microlight IR Helios P4 30/130 30deg Narrow Angle up to 300ft Night Vision Outdoor IP67 12-24 V AC/DC : Electronics
  7. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    well, more light on the darker parts of the picture should help a lot. fyi, my blackout is using the overlay in the camera, NOT in blueirtis, for what thats worth,b ut I believe you re exposure. I'll have to play around with making a shield for the on-camera flood, but that likely will glare...
  8. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    yeah, i just found that Z4E ... are there any non-zoom cams with that sort of focal length? I 'd hope those, at least, would have a more focused IR beam ? I still need to find a IR 'spotlight' thats like a 20 or 30 degree spot with reasonably even lighting across that cone. something I...
  9. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    sure, but I'm good with just seeing they are there at the extreme, and having 'recognize' at around 60 feet. in both my videos its around 100 or 120 feet where i turn around. 150 feet is the road behind that, which I block out from motion detect anyways, as there's far too much traffic, it...
  10. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    what size sensor is that chart for ? a 1/1.8" is going to be much wider at any given FL than a 1/3" or whatever.
  11. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    12mm is not exactly a wide field on a 1/1.8" sensor. and I want to add more IR light, I just don't want bright white lights out there.
  12. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    so WDR and HLC and SSA all sound like they do the same thing??
  13. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    well, 50mS, thats 1/20th second, quite a lot of motion blur. I was using sebastian's recommended shutter/gain settings.
  14. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    well, without the WDR off, the far side of the driveway is almost completely black, with it around 30-50, I can see details in the shadows, and tahts in B&W IR mode. tonight I'll play around some more with the settings once its dark. one thing, I dunno what BLC or HLC or SSA are, I know WDR...
  15. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    The closest corner of my house is about 150 ft from the road. I want to see what comes in my driveway, and this chimney spot has the best vantage. I have a few other cameras under the eaves, watching the walkway to the front door and the garage area. I'm also trying to get the best night...
  16. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    Note my vids in this thread are at max zoom, 12mm.... My little perp stroll takes me about 120 feet from the camera, I'm at about 25 feet when I 'peace, out' in the bottom right corner, and there's no light at all other than the ir illuminator
  17. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    hmm. i thought higher 3D NR resulted in more ghosts/trails, as its time averaging ? gotta say its really scary how ugly this looks with NR entirely off.
  18. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    ok, same sort of test walk, this with camera set for 15 FPS, iframe interval 60, H.265 CBR at 6144 kbit/s, brightness 73, contrast 72, 0-16.7ms shutter, 0-50 gain, 73 exposure comp, 3D NR at 30, 2D NR at 50, WDR at 50
  19. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    so, I want a 850nm IR spotlight that will illuminate a fairly narrow cone, maybe 20 or 30 degrees (I need to measure this), to light up an area about 100 feet from the light. It needs to be properly weather proof as it likely will end up mounted on a pipe on top of my roof. most of what I'm...
  20. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    I like the dark, so if I add any lights, it will be an IR flood, probably offset a fair bit from the camera and aimed at those trees on the left side of the field of view.
  21. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    cool. setting my day settings per what you gave, but using WDR of about 25, is giving me good daylight shadow detail. WDR and the shadows are just too black, and if i bring up the brightness, the whites are too white. odd, but the gamma doesn't seem to do much, I frequently use gamma of...
  22. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS IPC-T5842T-ZE SMD 3.0 Smart IR Latest New Firmware From EmpireTech

    I can't take any more captures tonight because this fine mist has settled in tonight, and is obscuring all of my cameras.
  23. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS IPC-T5842T-ZE SMD 3.0 Smart IR Latest New Firmware From EmpireTech

    I thought I was starting my own thread. and yeah, i would love to reduce motion blur. if you step through my vidoe its evindent and I know thats from the '3D NR', but without that the image is super noisy.
  24. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS IPC-T5842T-ZE SMD 3.0 Smart IR Latest New Firmware From EmpireTech

    oh, and I know all about long exposure and heavy compression ghosts
  25. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS IPC-T5842T-ZE SMD 3.0 Smart IR Latest New Firmware From EmpireTech

    huh, my dialog doesn't look quite like that one.,
  26. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS IPC-T5842T-ZE SMD 3.0 Smart IR Latest New Firmware From EmpireTech

    oh, note, I am using WDR, about 50% without that all those deep backgrounds are black.
  27. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS IPC-T5842T-ZE SMD 3.0 Smart IR Latest New Firmware From EmpireTech

    when I turn off the 3d noise reduction, it looks really really ugly.
  28. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    well, up on the chimney where those cams are, shining directly down on where we park, it was nasty. in our faces as we had to walk in. this is from a similar FOV IR cam, picture that as white light in our faces as we walk towards it, no thanks.
  29. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS IPC-T5842T-ZE SMD 3.0 Smart IR Latest New Firmware From EmpireTech

    are you saying I should use (eeew) MSIE on the Dahuas too?!? I have to use it for the HikV's already but I'm hoping to retire those.
  30. Left Coast Geek

    May need advice: digging trench for retaining wall. I'm out of ideas other than manual labor

    if you wanna break that lump up, its a breaker bar and a whole lot of sweat, or a jack hammer, and those big round river stones are NOT going to break, you're gonna have to chip them out of the concrete one by one.
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