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Ontario1963
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purchased 2 cameras, but one is full color and the other one is black and white, is the camera bad?

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jguerdat
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Nope, it's the light level which causes the camera to automatically switch from color to B&W.  You can test this by swapping cameras or increasing the light level for that camera.

TomMac
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Maybe, maybe not.

 

the cameras auto change to BW if the lighting conditions are low enough.... Move both into a bright area and re-check.

 

If the second camera is still BW, pull battery and replace same, test again in bright area

 

If still NG, contact Netgear support.

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lsheat
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Did you ever get a response from ARLO?  I just opened mine and am running in to the same thing.  They are in the same environment and one is perfect color and the other is B&W.  Thanks

JamesC
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Isheat,

 

If you take the camera that is showing in black and white into a well lit environment, does it still show in black and white?

 

JamesC

lsheat
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Once I got them both outdoors then I was able to duplicate the color in both cameras. Thanks