After upgrade to the latest firmware, images from Pi Camera now purple in absolute darkness

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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
raspberry-pi
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

Start with the related issue #1167 and the reported firmware upgrade history. Reproduce the purple or discolored images in absolute darkness using the listed cameras and settings; done would mean identifying and resolving the regression while preserving normal daylight images.

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Description

Referring to #1167

Used HW:
RpiZero-W /w 5MP no-name
Rpi3B /w 8MP No-IR
No additional IR-light used

Used SW:
Stretch, upgraded 2019-08-07. Before, everything workes fine. Maybe there is a gap of weeks since last upgrade.
PiCamera 1.13, used as realtime stream, capuring a picture every 10 seconds und create a timelapse video.

Both cameras are set to: --mode 0 --exposure night --awb auto --drc off

On both systems (No-IR & /w IR-filter), in absolutely darkness the images switch to purple (No-IR) respectively other colors on the camera /w IR-filter. On the No-IR, there is a continued disorder switching normal for seconds, on the camera /w IR-filter disorders happens for seconds with minutes of normal pictures.

On daylight there are no problems.

Image 8MP No-IR:
8MP No-IR

Image 5MP IR-filter:
5MP IR-filter

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