In the other hikvision cameras, the smaller IR led's glow red. You can see this at night. Does the exir led glow red when active?
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Yes, the IR led glows red as soon as it is dark. I own several Hikvision cameras and the night view is superb on this camera.
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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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The non visible IR lights are a longer wavelength = your eyes cant see them. Unfortunately most CCD/CMOS camera sensors are also less sensitive to the longer wavelength IR so it is a trade off between you being able to see the faint red glow of the shorter wavelength IR, or the camera not getting as much illumination at night from the long wavelength IR.
1225702
I don't believe it has infra red or night vision mode. But it is considered to have very good low light video quality.
539179
If your not seeing a difference let me ask you these 2 questions.1. Are pointing the IR Illuminator in the same direction as the camera?2. Is your camera IR corrective? The camera.has to be IR corrective for this to work.
948822
The one I returned due to malfunction had red led lights but when the company sent a replacement it had black led lights. It takes pictures when motion is detected but you don't see the black leds lights flash. If the animal is detected at night it will never suspect the camera. Its a good deal!
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My unit has the same dim red glow. I added a piece of florescent lighting diffuser panel (used in overhead lighting) the same size of the LED face. This widened and smoothed out the lighted image seen with the camera. This unit is still working, since 2008. Great product. You should buy the best camera you can then worry about the illumination after it is up and running. A high quality day/night camera with a very low lux rating (&lt;0.001) can produce amazing images in very low light. The better the camera you start out with the more effective the illuminators will be.
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Yes, this IR 890 nm illuminator emits a dim red glow. CDJ is correct about the semiconductor emitting (leaking) shorter visible wavelength light. Only a selective IR filter can stop this glow. Several surplus houses stock IR filters that you need at some very cheap prices.
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These cameras do include infrared LEDs that turn on automatically as lighting gets dark. There is no manual control to turn these on or off, or to control the intensity. The night vision are much brighter if the camera is used indoors as the light reflects off object or walls; when used outdoors with no reflection of the infrared light, it seems to be less effective unless something/someone comes into foreground view in range of the LED lighting. Also note, if cameras are placed behind glass or a window, the LEDs will reflect intensely and make viewing subjects behind the glass impossible.
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Yes, but the IR LEDs can only illuminate up to about a meter. If you add additional more powerful IR lights, it will see much better. I tried this with a foscam 9821 netcam with IR and the mini cam sees much better with the foscam IR LEDs on.
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IR LEDs are not triggered upon motion detection on any camera. They are activated by a photosensor built-in to the camera that senses whether it is light or dark. When it is sensed that it is dark, the IR LEDs turn on to provide illumination to the camera. Motion activation has nothing to do with the IR LEDS. You should have a DVR that senses motion, and activates recording when it thinks there is motion.
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When there is adequate light you will see color. In the dark when it has to rely on IR video will appear to be in monochrome. This is the same behavior you will see from any color camera with IR.
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There are two very low power LED's, a green one that shows the camera is active and a red one that comes on when the motion sensor is triggered. I don't think these would be an issue in a security situation and there may be a way to turn them off in the menus. The bigger issue is that the UV flash does light up visibly when triggered. It's doesn't project any visible light on the subject, but there is a dim pinkish glow from the array itself. It is very noticeable to the human eye. I don't think animals notice it, but I have seen it when I trigger the camera myself. A person might not catch it unless they are looking right at the camera, but, if they are, they won't miss it. There are two very low power LED's, a green one that shows the camera is active and a red one that comes on when the motion sensor is triggered. I don't think these would be an issue in a security situation and there may be a way to turn them off in the menus. The bigger issue is that the UV flash does light up visibly when triggered. It's doesn't project any visible light on the subject, but there is a dim pinkish glow from the array itself. It is very noticeable to the human eye. I don't think animals notice it, but I have seen it when I trigger the camera myself. A person might not catch... » Read More There are two very low power LED's, a green one that shows the camera is active and a red one that comes on when the motion sensor is triggered. I don't think these would be an issue in a security situation and there may be a way to turn them off in the menus. The bigger issue is that the UV flash does light up visibly when triggered. It's doesn't project any visible light on the subject, but there is a dim pinkish glow from the array itself. It is very noticeable to the human eye. I don't think animals notice it, but I have seen it when I trigger the camera myself. A person might not catch it unless they are looking right at the camera, but, if they are, they won't miss it. « Show Less
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Yes it glows a faint red, while it light is invisible to the naked eye. The source of the IR light will sometime glow red if it is putting out a high amount of IR. This can be circumvented by using more expensive iR illuminators.
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You will only see red LED's when in a dark room. The sensor does not turn them on until it senses darkness. Additionally, your cameras needs to be 850nm to use this unit.
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I've got a Red 6 I bought 6 weeks ago. Haven't really used it on game yet but did a fair amount of experimentation on day and night shooting and distances, motion, etc. A few of my night shots were very washed out. My yellow lab was maybe 8 feet away when he triggered the camera. Seems like subjects closer than 20 feet end up over exposed. Another test was of me in the yard at night 20 feet away and I showed up clear as well as my neighbor's house wall that was over 60 feet from the camera. While reading your note I thought of something you might try in case your camera is over exposing your night shots with too much infrared for the closer shots. Try using some black electrical tape cut in small pieces and placed in front of a few of the IR leds to block out a portion of the light they emit. Also try not to have a lot of dry light colored grass in the photos to cut down on the amount of IR reflection back to the camera. Good luck. One last thought, it could be that the software that must distinguish between Color Daylight exposure recording and switching the unit to exposing for IR black and white may be having a problem during that transition period when its switching prematurely (too early) to IR and the combination of IR and still existing twilight is overexposing the shot. I suspect that might be your case.
1944104
The infrared lights on this camera are not really visible unless you're very close to the camera. The downside to that is that they also don't really illuminate a large area. Unless someone is immediately in front of the camera, within 3-8 feet, you really can't see the lights and you also won't see much detail in the video signal.
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the question/s are probably best served by directing to the manufacture, however I suspect the issue at hand is that these are indeed IR(infrared light) cameras specifically designed to see in the IR spectrum of light. some of these IR cams have visible light filters in place to make visible light corrections, this particular model of IR cam does quite well at night with little or no ambient light situations-but because of the lack of daylight filter correction you will get that magenta skewed coloration this is not a defect!! it is simply the way the camera sees ambient daylight!!! I have 6 of these cameras for security purposes therefore the lack of correct coloration during the daylight hours is not issue for me as this camera is very good at night and has built in microphone which is an added plus. I have done considerable amounts of research on CCTV cams for me this cam represents the best bang for the buck when you consider what you get in the package-most importantly for me the IR cam system works and works well-if you are interested in IR cams with daylight color corrections you will have to no doubt have to spend considerably more and you may not get the 100ft dedicated cable microphone or power supply with said purchase
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I couldn't find any specs for the camera but I have some IR LEDs so I did a test and they all were detectable by the camera. The deepest IR LED used was 940 nM.