DH-SD8A820WA-HNF 4/3 PTZ Recieved My Order Today From Andy. Installation Soon.

tech101

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Nice!!! Am looking for a nice PTZ camera for the peak of my home so look forward to the review.
There is already a review for this model by @Parley You can see his post in the link below.


I will do some video posting too which will I guess tell you a bit more info camera i can also compare it once its up with my current Ptz which are 1 1.8 and 1 2.8 sensors.. IT will give you some idea on light gathering capability of these sensors. Again each location are different as lighting condition will vary upon locations but will get you at-least a pretty decent idea.
 
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Awesome. Wish that I lived somewhere that having something like that was worthwhile. I have nothing interesting enough to look at even with my pitiful little 4X PTZ. lol
 
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Awesome. Wish that I lived somewhere that having something like that was worthwhile. I have nothing interesting enough to look at even with my pitiful little 4X PTZ. lol
LOL, Even with these big PTZ i dont have much to look at Either. Sometimes I see Ants crawling on neigbhors tree LOL :|..

Anyhow Except it tracks people going back and forth on sidewalk / road day/night though.

I do use one of the PTZ at night to point further down the street so that way if someone like say checking car doors or something they dont even notice my cameras until its too late :)
 
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Just got done installing :) Even hooked up an microphone for it :)
All 3 PTZ are up on right locations now.. Will play with Tracking setting again to dial it in. :D thank you @EMPIRETECANDY for so many nice cams :)
 
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Here is a video clip from last night just to see since I have both 1 1.8 PTZ now and the 4/3. I am on a very dark street not much lights or street lights just barely what ever motion if any comes on from neighbors or what i have installed. So far I love both of it reason being. 4/3 is 20x optical and starts at I think 16.0 mm min. to 320mm for 4/3

I believe 1 1.8 5.6mm~223mm so I can zoom out further :) So I like both to be frank :) Both have their own perks :)

 
Seems to be a lot of motion blur? What shutter speed is that?

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Just got it up and running barely So left it on Auto will be playing around now with settings. Lets see where I can push it.. towards.. Any recommendation to start off from I am thinking 1/60th.. Maybe..and see how it likes that but again very dark usually for me.
 
Here is one I just try at 1/120 .. With Iris and Gain all @ 100 ...

 
It is now really dark with the lights off though.. So in this scenario The Lights will have to turn on.. Otherwise I guess it be too dark

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Another Car just passed now the cam is @ 180th as above screenshot :)

 
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Dropping it further. DNR and here is a video now..

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Sorry not impressed with your clips you have posted so far unless I am looking at still objects.
 
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Many hour of tweaking fun ahead like any new cam ;) So far I'm thinking the 1/120 with less DNR may be your best compromise.
 
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