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Hi, I am trialling a camera at my local theatre for use by the stage manager to see the stage from the audience perspective. I am trying a Genie HDED2812IR, all is good except a very long delay (6 seconds) in the night mode activating. When the stage lights go to "black out" I need the camera to switch to IR night mode as quickly as possible, 6 seconds is an entirety in a theatre. I have set any delay settings in the menus to LOW but it is still too long. I have also considered a Samsung SCD-6081R but on reading the manual it looks like the smallest delay that can be set is 5 seconds, still too long! Can anyone suggest a fix, or an alternative hd-sdi dome camera, available in the UK, for around £250? Many thanks.

ok, for the IR cut filter I am not 100% convinced I have one. All I know is that when I turn the lights off the IR diodes come on immediately then after about 4 seconds there is a click and the B&W picture comes through. The click is like a relay switching. It may be part of the colour/B&W setting change rather than an IR cut filter moving, I don't know really. Yes, I am looking for HD-SDI, we have an existing system in place and would like to utilise existing cable runs where possible although this isn't the driving force for using this protocol. I looked at IP cameras but all of the cameras I looked at are designed to work with digital recorders and have web based portals for viewing images. What we are after is real time viewing with no recording capabilities (in fact if we had capabilities for recording we would be breaking the performing rights license for most of our productions!). I want a camera and a screen (or two or three screens with splitters). I have the infrastructure purchased and ready to go so I don't want to change that now. I just need to get the camera sorted. And, yes, I'm in the UK so PAL is what I need. I have e-mailed the manufacturer of the last camera I suggested and a re-seller, lets hope I get the right answers.

very interesting reply. The IR lamp idea would be ideal but, I perhaps didn't explain very well in the first place is, what I am experiencing is when it goes dark the IR diodes illuminate immediately but the camera doesn't switch to night vision until 6 seconds later. This switch over is done with a 'click', is that the IR cut filter moving (I'm a beginner and only just starting to understand the various terminology and technology!)? If that is the case then I could have as much IR illumination possible but the camera would just filter it out until the cut filter is removed. This would still give me a 6 second delay!! Does anyone have any views on my suggested alternative CBP6324DN-HD?

Wouldn't that enable the night BLACK & WHITE mode at all times? Colour is important unless we are in "black out"

Hi, thank you for your reply. What a good idea, it may be a solution for us. In theory, accepting any warranty would be void, could the IR diodes on the camera be re-wired to be always on or would it be easier to get another IR array? I've been spending a lot of time reading up on cameras, I have found another camera - CBP6324DN-HD that shows, in the manual, Day/Night Delay configurable between 0 ~ 255 seconds. Take a look at http://www.videcon.co.uk/uploads/files/CBP6324DN-HD_CVP6324DN-HD_Dome_Manualsplit.pdf What are your thoughts??? I have e-mailed the supplier but, not being a trade security distributor, they are being awkward in talking with me!!