What is wrong with my camera? I have had several cameras do this, but this is the newest camera. Most have been Axis 216FD cameras, but this is my first M3114. I understand it to be a bad image sensor, but not much more. Can someone explain to me why it is doing this?
Bad Image Sensor?
Looks like you are missing all your reds...
Does this camera not have a real day/night filter?
Maybe the virtual cut filter is not working?
This is after a reset? How many others did this? Permanently?
No, it does not have a mechanical IR cut filter and I was not aware of a virtual cut filter, is that a thing? I have had IR cut filters get stuck in daytime mode, but the picture is all a pink tint.
I cannot get it to stop doing this with software tweaking (camera settings, firmware upgrade, reboot, and factory default). If I turn the contrast down to around 17, the pink is isolated to the bright spots in the sky between the clouds.
This is the 1st 3114 I have seen this on. I have had 3 216FDs and 1 M3201 do this.
What software are you using and how is your wiring? No way that many cameras have been bad.
Is there really such a thing as a virtual cut filter? That is a profound philosophical question. ;)
Cameras that have a b+w mode, but no cut filter, do their best after the fact by image processing. Here it looks like the red channel has been turned into b+w but the others have not. Maybe it's stuck in Arecont Emulation Mode. ;)
Bad Sensor...get Axis to replace it...they have a history of them with all the models you mentioned.
They did? Product recall announcement? Service bulletin link? Anything to back that up with basically. Not that I don’t believe you, just need some proof!
Hi Ross,
They rarely would promote/acknowledge something like sensor failures and it wasn't 100% but 216's and some other's would see this exact type of failure...I say this because I am a past employee and still have a couple of the bad senors in my possession.
Tyler,
Not long ago I had a post on IPVM with Exacq and Axis cams making for bad video for H264 streams ONLY. The MJPEG streams we all OK.
The eventual fix for that was to perform a factory reset on the cam.
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