HIKVISION DARKFIGHTER REVIEW IPCAMTALK MANUAL
HIKVISION DARKFIGHTER REVIEW IPCAMTALK FULL

HIKVISION DARKFIGHTER REVIEW IPCAMTALK FULL

As well as elements of the courtyard itself, there are surrounding towers, a lane, a row of houses, a line of treetops on the next street down, then commercial and residential towers at multiple distances, from 350m to 1500m away.Īs I get underway, I measure the light level in full sun in the North-West facing courtyard at a monstrous 15.1 EV (90,000 lux). We are looking out across the lower end of Surry Hills towards the CBD. The feel of the focus is smooth, the poly is heavy, the fixings are metal.Īs well as being bright, the test scene is a complex and challenging one, with plenty of detail from front to back. This 11-40mm gives a tighter, longer view and holding the both lenses gives a sense that the glass is good quality. The lenses I’m running for the test are Hikvision’s own 3.8-16mm F1.5 – an 8MP IR-corrected 1/1.8-inch (9.2mm) lens, as well as the 11-40mm 1/1.8-inch 8MP IR-corrected lens which arrives mounted on the Hikvision SmartIP 4-Line 6MP. Quality Cat 5/6 cables are worth the price you pay for them, I think to myself. Just untangling the torturous loops this cable came wound up in puts white stress marks in the cable jacket.

The Darkfighter is connected to the NVR via a 20m length of Cat-5 bought for the purpose from an electrical wholesaler. Not surprisingly, the images look better direct from NVR to monitor and I stick with that configuration most of the time. Meanwhile, I’m also able to port into the NVR via browser and play with camera settings via my elderly HP EliteBook, which has an Intel Centrino dual core processor gasping away under the bonnet. The DS-7600 is ported straight to an HP L2445w widescreen monitor using a converter cable and there’s a wee mouse to drive the NVR’s very simple GUI. The period of the test kicks off around 330pm and runs until 830pm at night. The appointed day of the test arrives and it’s a bright blue Sunday afternoon in Sydney. The idea here is to set up the Darkfighter in a challenging WDR situation and then note its low light performance as night falls. Happening to have a brand new 6MP camera in your kitbag that no one’s heard of before strikes me as being a very Hikvision thing. The idea of this was to allow some comparison during the test. I’VE been keen to test Hikvision’s DarkFighter DS-2CD6020FHWD(-A) full body camera for a while now so it was a thrill when Hikvision’s Michael Bates and Tony Lagan turned up at the office one morning door laden with boxes containing the Darkfighter, a couple of lenses and Hikvision’s DS-7600 Linux embedded NVR.Īlong with the Darkfighter, the boys also brought along a new SmartIP 4-Line 6MP full body camera that I wasn’t expecting to see. The camera offers 60fps, 120dB WDR, a region of interest codec and 3D DNR digital noise reduction. Why would the 2.8mm GO have no Sub Stream setting.Hikvision’s Darkfighter DS-2CD6020FHWD(-A), distributed locally by Central Security Distribution, is an ultra low light WDR 2MP IP camera with a ½-inch progressive scan CMOS sensor. Do recordings now only record in Sub Stream 640 x 480.Ģ. Two further questions come out of my tinkering.ġ. Now the only difference with this camera 2343GO to the 3 others is that is a 2.8mm whereas the others are 4s and 6s so I am a bit confused as to why it wouldn't have the Sub Stream option. One other issue is that one of my cameras doesn't have the Sub Stream option, it only has Main Stream so with this camera I can't get Thumbnails to display.

HIKVISION DARKFIGHTER REVIEW IPCAMTALK MANUAL

I always had this set to Main Stream rather than Sub Stream as according to the manual 'When you select sub-stream, you can record for a longer time with the same storage space', which to me would mean very poor recordings as these would be in 640 x 480 res or whetever poor sub stream res is selected, rather than those selected in the previous Main Stream menus. There is also an option under the heading 'Video Stream' to select either 'Main Stream' or 'Sub Stream'. This is where post and pre event recording times are set. In the Recording menu under Parametres where all the bit rate, frame rate, etc are set there is another tab at the bottom left of the interface called 'More Settings'. No probs, it might help others with the issue talked about.Īnyway I have found a setting that gets the thumbnails to display but I am now a bit confused.

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