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Good point on that rubber grommet - I will open up that dome and double check, it might not be in proper position. I'm still waiting to hear back from dahua engineering, they are on holiday in China until the 8th. I'm not ready to write off the 3MP dome just yet, the form factor is appealing and daytime pictures are great. Today I hope to get to the 2 models of mini-domes I have on hand (1.3mp and 2mp). Zoneminder setting exactly below. Source: FFMPEG (which doesn't have the settings you ask for - that is for remote) rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.150:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0?tcp 1920x1080 I haven't been successful getting "remote" type to work with many cameras, at least not these dahua. Remote Protocol: Remote Method: Remote Host Name: Remote Host Port: Remote Host Path: Remote image Colours: 24 bit colour (default) Capture Width (pixels): 1920 (default) Caputer Height (Pixels): 1080 ((default)

Both 3MP cameras (dome & bullet) have the 3.2-12mm

It looks like the 3MP bullet is really similar to the 2MP you tested, and they are close in price. The IR LED's are much less intense and are smaller, which makes no sense to me. The 3MP dome has the bigger LED's similar to the mini-bullet. So far I haven't noticed any halo effect, at least not like you had on that 1.3MP dome you tested, that was really acute. I just grabbed these two shots inside, with almost no light. There is a clear halo effect on the dome but I just realized I left out that black foam ring accidentally, so I took 2nd and 3rd shot with ring in place, with and without the dome. Apparently the ring didn't make any difference, with the dome installed there is a clear halo at night time. Is there anything that can be done? is this something that occurs with other dome cameras? I am going to ask Dahua tech support today and see what they have to say. I'm going to get a little more scientific about this today, I am mounting each camera to a block of wood so I can secure them in similar positions either outside or inside. Is there a way to add higher quality images (more than 250kb) on this site? Or is that a good reason to have a review site where you have more control (like your site, which is excellent)? I was toying with the idea of setting up wordpress on my LAMP server at home, using a free DDNS name and hosting it myself. I shouldn't have any problem with bandwidth or server resources.

I was thinking the same thing with the dome - and I tried for 20 minutes to get the focus just right, so that was the best I could manage. I'm setting up the 3MP bullet now, i'll post a pic in a bit. From what I can tell the 3MP bullet does not have that same softness at all. It does, however, seem to have much less effective IR LEDs. More on that later.

Folks, It has taken longer than I though to get some sample pictures & video up, sorry about that. So far I have only played around with mini-bullet & 3MP Dome cameras. Both are excellent, however I'm really impressed with the mini-bullet in terms of features, picture quality and price. I shot some still & video using these two cameras, and the 3MP camera in 1920x1080 and 2056x1536 modes. These 3 images were done with natural light mid-afternoon. I will get the same shots tonight when it's totally dark. Any advice on testing setup & changes to make I'm happy to try out.