I bought 4 of these cameras on May 2013, and now two of them have no night vision. What is the problem? any adjustment or they are crap?
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Odd that it happened on 2 camera's at same time. This happened to one of my camera's. Pull power out from the back of the unit and wait about 30 seconds. then plug back in.If it still it not working, Check your Iris setting make sure it's open. Final option before considering bad is reset the whole system back to default settings.This may fix problem. Any IP setting you have will be lost. so it will need to bereprogrammed good luck JW
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I have had no problems with them. Maybe u got a bum couple. So far I am happy. The cameras that came with my zoomodoo system sucked
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The 4 units I own have good quality day or night. The areas I have covered are also assisted by some additional area lighting (one 60w light in the back yard, and a 250w sodium street light near my driveway) which may contribute to the quality of the night vision. If possible, I'd recommend adding some additional lighting to assist the nighttime vision. If that doesn't work, then you may have a defective camera. These cameras will display only black and white at night (no color).
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Hello Craig. Not sure I have any suggestions for you on this. I have had mine installed for almost a year now and have never had a problem. Maybe you got a lemon and hopefully you can return it for a replacement? It would be worth trying in my opinion because it's the best camera I have used thus far! I have 2 other cheaper Swan models installed on my system and plan to swap them out for this model as soon as I get the $$ to do it. This one beats the other Swan cameras I have 10 fold on overall picture and especially on night vision distance/clarity! Good luck Buddy
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The little camera automatically goes the night vision But the main camera I cannot find out where to turn it off for night vision or in any of the other switches or seem not to work But maybe one day I can figure this out myself the instruction booklet was not too helpful
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Yeah, we have some Speco cams that have invisible IR lights. So they are not visible at night. It seems the invisible IR lights are getting harder and harder to find these days.
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I got like 20 of them . no way to focus on the cam itself. if you got Samsung dvr system they should be crisp and clear.many people including me at times forget to remove the clear sticker on the new camera lens. if yours is removed you probably got a bad cam.
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Yes, one out of 4 cameras lost IR ability after about a year. Also, my DVR stopped recording after a year.
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Hi Michael, my apolgies for the late reply. I have updated my review and went from 5 stars to 1. Out of 2 cameras, I am now on my 3rd replacement. One of my replacements is a V2 and that one has been working well with no issues for 2 months now. I just got my other replacement last week so early days and amazingly it was a V1. I emailed them and they said they were out of V2's and the V1 should be just fine now. I am hoping I will have no more issues - they otherwise work very well.
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Have you tried editing any footage from these cameras yet? I am concerned about that aspect.
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I would agree it id defective. They should be automatic when the light level gets to low for normal camera operation.
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We had to return our unit as the night vision was turning on and off continuously during the night. We called Samsung and they said it was a problem with the night vision sensor. We bought the Motorola after that with no issues
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I have used six of these cameras at each of three locations. They work splendidly. Yes they do have night vision. This particular model is still available on E-Bay. The latest model works with the same software and will work fine with an older system as long as the latest transmitter is used. I am using Win 7 64 bit, Win 8 and Win XP with zero problems. You must have the 64 bit version to work with Win 7 64 bit and Win 8. The 32 bit version is required for earlier versions of Windows. Both can be downloaded free from Logitech.
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Same problem here, I think Sony should send out new camera's I have only had mine for a couple months.I lost my son's wedding pictures.
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I returned one of these camera because of a similar problem. I noticed a white flickering dot during playback. I observed while filming and the dot was present on the LCD screen. I got a second one and the dot wasnt there at first. It came back on the second camera but in a different place. I'm baffled and wish i could find more info on this issue. If anyone has more info on this, let me know!
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It may be defective the one I have has a decent black and white image at night. You most likely won't see a light from it it records using infra red lighting at night. If it's not recording anything you pro bubbly have a bad camera.
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My backup lights do not emit the amount of light at night to see. We were backing up the other night and nothing in the camera. I would advise the newer version with the IR lights.
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The night vision works great 18 leds, I bought a cheap camera on ebay for $18.99 with 36 leds and it really gives about 90 feet vision the ones that came with the dvr are about 60 feet. They work best if the led night lights are bouncing off things in the dark like a wall or a building, But if someone does walk by it will light em up big time. Also get the next dvr model up for it has a nice Hdmi And the alert buzzer works great ELEC CVD 2008H on your model the sofwear shows a alert tab but its not supported by the dvr. Hope this helps look at ptz cameras on u tube also to see how well they work. Good Luck