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Nice camera *but* there's no IR cut filter on the lens so your colours will be a bit odd.
The camera itself is fine, nice and sharp, focuses great. The problem is that (at least when I purchased it) the description reads "3.6mm lens with IR-cut filter @ 850nm". This is incorrect, lens that comes with the camera does NOT have an IR filter!This would make sense - if it did there would be no point having the IR LEDs around it. But it means that anything that is lit by a "hot" light source and has a significant IR component (the sun, incandescent light bulbs) will have a pink/purple cast while anything lit by a "cold" light source (LED, fluorescent) will be roughly correct.Funnily enough, there IS an IR filter on the board ... but it's on the light sensor above the camera (the one that turns the IR LEDs on - presumably so it doesn't see its own IR light, think it's bright enough, and immediately turn off again). If you're handy with a hot glue gun you can do what I did, pop that off (it's held in place by a bit of flexible plastic), take the lens out, glue it to the back of the lens (it's the perfect size), put it back together, refocus, and everything now color balances fine. Of course, the effect of the IR LEDs would be much reduced and they'll probably keep turning themselves off because the light sensor will now see them. This doesn't matter to me, I bought this camera for the combination of the small size, interchangeable lenses, resolution, and framerate, not the IR LEDs.(Note that the only cameras that don't have this problem - that can see properly in normal light without a funny colour cast but can also see in IR light - have a mechanism that shifts the IR filter in and out of the optical path ... those tend to be more expensive. You can tell, there's a bigger plastic thing at the base of the lens.)
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