Night Mode
Ranee Wates
I had read that sometimes knocking the unit sharply, or drawing a powerful magnet around it would "free" this presumably mechanical filter (moderators, please confirm if this is actually a lens that swings into place for the IR to work, and then retracts).
During first test, it was 50% pink, 50% normal imaging, encouraging me to more robustly impact the device. It soon returned a perfectly balanced image. Imagine my further surprise when it transition to IR mode that night, and back to normal the following morning.
Hello Harvey1958,
Thanks for getting back to us. Google Nest Camera's night vision uses high-power infrared (IR) LEDs to illuminate the scene when it's dark. When night vision is set to Auto, Nest cameras wait to switch between normal and night modes only when the light gradually changes. For instance, at dusk or dawn, when the lighting is marginal. Some cameras flip back and forth between normal and night modes, which makes the video too light or too dark. Also, we don't have information about the mechanical lens of the Nest Camera that would trigger to rotate into the focal plane. Keep us posted with your update.
Best,
Emerson
If you want color night vision, your IR mode setting needs to remain OFF. Turning it to ON will engage the IR filter and force the black & white IR vision. Turning it to Auto will allow the cam to decide when it is dark enough to switch to black & white IR night mode.
The V3 has the starlight sensor that helps in all low light situations, wither your night vision mode is on or off. It is sensitive enough that even the smallest amount of light (visible or IR) can effect the picture. Full moon? No moon? Neighbor patio light? All effect the brightness of the starlight sensor picture when evenly lit.
If the same problem you are describing is a reduction in the Low Light Color Vision at night (Night Vision Mode Off), it would be best to post before and after shots from the same cam if you have them in your events or SD card depending on how long ago this started. I have only 3 cams in NV Off because they are behind glass, but they are already dark due to a lack of light. These are more daylight cams for me.
Time to call Wyze support and ask for replacement. I think the latest FW update not only degrades quality but also brakes the StarLight sensor on some cameras and might even brick the camera. It happened to me and looks like it happened to you too. The replacement camera is better but not as good as the old one with the old firmware. I bought four more cameras and all four show lower quality at night after FW update.
Can you select a specific shutter speed in night mode when using tripod? I think it just default to 3, 5 10 and 30 secs depending on the brightness of the subject. I would like to manually the select shutter speed and not the default one.
You're correct. The camera can sense and determine how long the exposure ought to be. But even in a very dark location, the longest exposure it will take HANDHELD will be 10 seconds. A slider appears on the screen whenever Night Mode is selected and this can be slid to OFF or Auto or to the camera's assumed exposure setting. However, as shown below, you can access a longer shutter speed of 30 seconds if your phone is on a Tripod. In the city at night it's often just a 2 second exposures that are needed and in rural districts with extremely dark locations it's anywhere between 10 and 30 seconds. The iPhone is taking a number of images and stacks them together to reduce noise whilst still offering a basic long exposure across the shot that picks up light trails etc. It's fairly impressive in this respect.
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The images above were ALL handheld but where possible, I would rest the side of the iPhone against a pole or a railing if one was available. But when taking handheld shots at night, a cross appears in the middle of the screen and if your hands drift during the exposure a second cross appears... and you must try to keep both crosses overlaid during the exposure to enable the camera to process the HDR image.
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I just spent a night wandering around the city and found that all the night shots I took were between 2 and 2.5 seconds (typically). The weak area is that images with water (at night) look smeared when shot this way. Sometimes this was acceptable but most shots taken with water at night were fixable by taking a second shot and turning off the Night Mode for that second shot. This still captured the water but the waves were crisp because it was a shorter exposure. I could then blend the two together.
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In places where the location was VERY dark, you get up to 30 seconds for the exposure. Something that seems a bit odd to me is that I seem to remember the shots below being taken with 30 second exposures but this was a while ago and the EXIF data attached to each image suggests they were mostly 10 second exposures. I think there must be an error because I really do remember using 30 seconds. Also, the iPhone gave me a choice of 10,13 and 30 second exposures at the time. My guess is that the shots below were indeed 30 seconds long but the camera only tags the images with a 10 second exposure.
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iPhone 13 Pro Max - 10 (30) second long night shot. The Large Magellanic Cloud (a Dwarf Galaxy that orbits our own) is visible in the top right corner. This scene was pitch black but the foreground was lit by a passing truck. Tripod used. * Taken in ProRAW
Can you select a specific shutter speed in night mode when using tripod? I think it just default to 3, 5 10 and 30 secs depending on the brightness of the subject. I would like to manually the select shutter speed
The iPhone night mode (well every smartphone night mode) is actually disappointing. My research showes that almost every smartphone is limited to 1s exposures! Everything beyond is just a stack with some denoising, wich is not good for my use case. I dont want to have any noise reduction or "pre stacking" i just want a single 10, 20, 30 second exposure in a linear unprocessed state. Ideal would be .fits file but .tiff or .dng would work too. All in all i can say, smartphones COULD be a great start into astro photography, but they aren't yet. I'd rather take my astro cam or my modified dslr.
Any update on this feature - I just want a Dark Theme - toolbar etc. All modern apps provide this now and Nitro is behind with this feature. I'm evaluating a similar product Foxit PDF Editor which already has this feature.
Like others, I so much want to use NitroPDF because of it's design and feature set. However, I'm on the list of those wondering 'why' Nitro has yet to implement a dark/nite mode. As someone who frequently works in a low lite environment I cannot tolerate the blaring, stark white of Nitro. Please listen to your users' requests. As for me, there is no other choice but to use another product.
Honestly I like working in a dark environment (Twilight on my all my editors), and recently I switched from a Windows to Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity Desktop on a PC). And being a night worker the brightness is a little harmful to my eyes.
The temperature parameter of redshift takes input from 1000 to 25000, thats a pretty long range and will cater to all your uses. Just for reference normal screen uses 6500K temperature. So for reading mode you can set it to around 5500+.
@brightmike154 I had written this yesterday on creating a light and dark mode. I am using a toggle button to store the theme selection in a custom state and then using conditional statements to change the color. You can check out the preview and editor links.
I have 'Night Mode' scheduled on my Windows 10 PC. Every day from 23:00 the night mode is being automatically enabled. Sometimes I want to turn it off for the current session without messing up my settings or having the need to reset my settings after I relog into my OS. I would like to have a shortcut for turning off the night mode for the current session, is there a way to do so? Thanks in advance...
The best way to achieve a night mode would be to put in some preset colors for multiple themes. Common ones would be light (which is current standard), dark (which inverts colors), and an intermediate gray theme (ex. TextColor = #ffffff , BackgroundColor = #6e6e6e). This is just an opinion. An additional option would be to add a Custom where the user could input the hex values for desired colors. If someone were to put in bad color values so that nothing was visible, then they could reinstall or alter the Advanced Settings file.
There are no easy to switch predefined settings for dark mode in SumatraPDF. However, you can change settings on your own - just go to Advanced Options in Settings menu and provide new values for TextColor, BackgroundColor and SelectionColor in FixedPageUI and EbookUI sections.
Ideally, you should get off your phone, tablet or computer after a certain time each night and forget about it until your alarm wakes you. The longer you stare at a screen, the more you get pulled down the various rabbit holes that are found on Reddit, Facebook and Twitter -- and the later you stay up, regardless of which color of light your screen projects.
Screen Time is a similar feature for iPhone users, and it has a Downtime setting that you can schedule to restrict access to only the apps you absolutely need, like Messages, Podcasts and the Phone app. Let's be real -- you don't need access to Facebook late at night.
The Current Biology study also touched on the impact white light has on our sleep habits and found that it has a similar effect as yellow light. Meaning, you should take advantage of your phone's built-in dark mode when you're winding down for the day.
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