My Brand New LPR camera!

bigredfish

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Well, actually its 5 years old :p

5231EP-Z12E bought in 2016. I thought it was just the sun angle this time of year giving it a hazy image, but its gotten worse over the past 6 months or so.

It was the clear plastic lens on the face of the camera. Apparently the sun and 5 years of weather took their toll. Took it off and tried cleaning it but the plastic is just discolored and hazy.
I was lucky to have a buddy's dead 5442 that got hit by lightning laying in the garage, so swapped it out with the new lens cover and Boom New camera!

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This thread brings up an interesting point: is there anyone out there who sells replacement parts for Dahua cameras? It was fortunate that @bigredfish had another dead camera to pull the part out of, but otherwise he'd be out of luck.

I assume that Dahua probably has little interest in managing a supply chain for repair companies outside China, but maybe someone out there sells equivalent replacement items such as lens covers. Does anyone know of a vendor for IP camera parts?
 
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Yup, sell it for parts and move on to the next camera if you have one die unless you are lucky enough like @bigredfish to have spare parts lying around and are good with tinkering.
 

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I’d love to see what the old lens looks like. If this doesn’t highlight the importance of the exterior cover I don’t know what does.

On a related matter Hikvision now incorporates a blue medium to the dome covers that is said to reduce motion blur / ghosting?!?

I’m unsure how a coloured filter could prevent motion blur vs shutter speed, more light, F stop, lens size??
 

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This is going to make me re-adjust my settings a bit but liking the improved clarity. (Remember, Florida has the worst and biggest variety of plates in the country)

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The other day I talked with software developers for license plate recognition. Due to the lack of a unified standard for license plates in the USA, this causes big problems in the development and training of the algorithm. :banghead:
 
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