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Pogo Agreed, definitely get the feeling that these cameras are somehow upscaled 4k from a 1080 sensor, or something is wrong with the sensor/device as a whole. You're right it doesn't look like it's native 4k with all the smoothing artifacts going on. Also if I drop the resolution on these cameras ...

The keyframe noise flash is visible even on my backyard camera and that is entirely in the open, no overhang beyond the camera. And regardless of the duration between the keyframes that just reduces the frequency between the noise flashes, it doesn't remove it. As for the 2mp vs 4mp vs 8mp, why woul...

Installed an SD card and pulled the files directly off of that. There is no difference in the quality unfortunately, still a noisy mess with strong pulsing on every keyframe. I'll be sending these videos to Amcrest once they respond to my email. Considering the other two cameras also have this issue...

Revo2Maxx Thank you for testing that, was really thinking I was going nuts here. So even with yours the sensor is a noisy mess and relies on the noise reduction to make a decent image. The tail-light streaking in your video stood out to me, it's an artifact of noise reduction. Also means almost all...

@Pogo The alternative is just installing an sd card directly in the camera and having it record to that for a test, right? Doing some recordings while changing the settings and then pull those files off the card? That would cut out the network component entirely.

All the cameras are connected with the following cable: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JAVLBA2 The runs are all less than 70 ft. At 48v there's going to be basically no voltage loss across that short distance. I did a full factory reset and also updated the firmware to the latest version and t...

Resetting the camera completely to factory defaults makes STILL images crisp, but that crispness is completely fake. It uses the '3D noise reduction' to hide the immense amount of noise from the sensor. It uses 50% as the default setting for it. This means any motion is full of ghosting. The station...

Thanks for the tips! And almost immediately too! The settings on the camera in my video just happened to be what they were last on during testing. I've tried CBR and VBR at all the different bitrates and regardless of the settings it either looks the same or worse, always a grainy noisy mess. With r...

Have 3 IP8M-T2599EW 4k cameras and all of them have very noisy sensors, but if I turn on noise reduction then at night any motion results in ghost trails around the moving object and any moving text is illegible. This problem is visible in the browser and when using the rtsp stream over VLC or throu...