@@dano3345 You are settings aim to best nightview of STILL images (no movement). You can set the shutter speed of any camera very high and you get a clear night view of still scenes..(this is what happens in auto mode)... you can also use blc (what you did) which change the exposure on the fly for different regions... but when it comes to motion you just see blurry "ghosts" instead of real persons... no identify possible. you have to tune your settings to identify a moving person(face) at night.. not to have the best still nightview... but not sure what you really did. the small video of moving person was a clearly darker scene , the rest was maybe a footage at starting dusk. Just go to exposure and set it to manual ... then play around with shutter speed (lower it) and see improvement of moving objects at night. there is a setting for full manual (where you can control also the gain which leads to the blurr) and a only shutter setting. reolink cameras are useless at night, because the sensorsize is so big with many megapixel and you cant get enough light to the sensor to have a good nightview of MOVING objects. also the overexposure of IR light (what you describe as a huge ball of light) is a problem of any reolink. They (the firmware of the camera) cant control it. So all in all... a night identify with reolink is impossible, you only see overexposured and/or blurry persons. Not sure why someone need that. I want to identify a person by face.
I have just set up a reolink 4k nvr and cameras. I am so so disappointed with the appalling night vision. Its OK when nothing is moving but when a person or car passes by it is absolutely impossible to identify them because if the ghosting and blur. Not possible to tell make or model of a car or the gender or size of a person. The 1080p swann system I replaced has better night vision.
What are you talking about? The night vision on these things is really good. If it's a high speed car or a person running it doesn't matter what camera it is at night. It's going to be blurry. Have you tried changing the settings he suggested?
@@troyrichey11 These cameras are rubbish. It's that simple. They have very small, poor quality sensors. As for settings, firstly the majority of settings are not changeable by the user. They are locked off by reolink. Secondly, all the settings in the world can't overcome the weaknesses of a tiny sensor that's overloaded with pixels. The 4K buzzword is deceiving people here. More MP on a small sensor is not a good thing. Each pixel needs light so the smaller each pixel is, the less light they collect. I sent back all my reolink cameras for a refund. In fairness to reolink, they gave me back all my money without any BS. I then spent my money on Dahua gear. For the same money I got a 5 series NVR and three 5442 cameras. Now that is serious equipment. They leave the reolink gear in the ha'penny place. There is absolutely no comparison. I was new to cctv when I bought the reolink kit and I was duped by the marketing. My solemn advice to anybody starting out is this - Spend your money on Dahua or Hikvision gear. It's more expensive but it's far far superior and is well worth the money. If you spend your money on reolink junk you will just be frustrated and when it comes to business time and you need a video for evidence you will wish you hadn't wasted your money.
and now show moving objects ... with this settings everyone is just a ghost. why do you want to have still images out of a surveillance camera ?
Sorry can you elaborate? I do not use still images. Which setting is making everyone a ghost?
@@dano3345 You are settings aim to best nightview of STILL images (no movement). You can set the shutter speed of any camera very high and you get a clear night view of still scenes..(this is what happens in auto mode)... you can also use blc (what you did) which change the exposure on the fly for different regions...
but when it comes to motion you just see blurry "ghosts" instead of real persons... no identify possible. you have to tune your settings to identify a moving person(face) at night.. not to have the best still nightview... but not sure what you really did. the small video of moving person was a clearly darker scene , the rest was maybe a footage at starting dusk.
Just go to exposure and set it to manual ... then play around with shutter speed (lower it) and see improvement of moving objects at night. there is a setting for full manual (where you can control also the gain which leads to the blurr) and a only shutter setting.
reolink cameras are useless at night, because the sensorsize is so big with many megapixel and you cant get enough light to the sensor to have a good nightview of MOVING objects. also the overexposure of IR light (what you describe as a huge ball of light) is a problem of any reolink. They (the firmware of the camera) cant control it. So all in all... a night identify with reolink is impossible, you only see overexposured and/or blurry persons. Not sure why someone need that. I want to identify a person by face.
I have just set up a reolink 4k nvr and cameras. I am so so disappointed with the appalling night vision. Its OK when nothing is moving but when a person or car passes by it is absolutely impossible to identify them because if the ghosting and blur. Not possible to tell make or model of a car or the gender or size of a person. The 1080p swann system I replaced has better night vision.
What are you talking about? The night vision on these things is really good. If it's a high speed car or a person running it doesn't matter what camera it is at night. It's going to be blurry. Have you tried changing the settings he suggested?
@@troyrichey11 These cameras are rubbish. It's that simple. They have very small, poor quality sensors. As for settings, firstly the majority of settings are not changeable by the user. They are locked off by reolink. Secondly, all the settings in the world can't overcome the weaknesses of a tiny sensor that's overloaded with pixels. The 4K buzzword is deceiving people here. More MP on a small sensor is not a good thing. Each pixel needs light so the smaller each pixel is, the less light they collect.
I sent back all my reolink cameras for a refund. In fairness to reolink, they gave me back all my money without any BS. I then spent my money on Dahua gear. For the same money I got a 5 series NVR and three 5442 cameras. Now that is serious equipment. They leave the reolink gear in the ha'penny place. There is absolutely no comparison. I was new to cctv when I bought the reolink kit and I was duped by the marketing. My solemn advice to anybody starting out is this - Spend your money on Dahua or Hikvision gear. It's more expensive but it's far far superior and is well worth the money. If you spend your money on reolink junk you will just be frustrated and when it comes to business time and you need a video for evidence you will wish you hadn't wasted your money.