atropine 0 Posted April 15, 2008 Hi, I'm using a 1/4 inch superhad day/night camera. For my dark street I really do need a larger format camera, but for now this will have to do with an IR illuminator. I have the illuminator mounted at the front of the base of my dome. Last night was the first time I've tried the setup with the illuminator, and it wasn't very successful, as It's set to activate on motion and I has around 400 false recordings due to moths flying in front of lens and being illuminated by the IR light. I hadn't' even heard of this problem before, but if you've experienced it, what did you do to overcome it? I'm thinking of mounting the IR light maybe 2 feet away from the camera to the right of it, and hope that's enough to keep the moths from being detected, but then I wounder if that will introduce shadows due to the camera and illuminator not being aligned together. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CollinR 0 Posted April 15, 2008 IR too close to cam, 48"-60" minimum IMHO, will also improve other aspects as the light won't have the bounce back effect from anything anymore. Also if you can try to bounce the light off something else on the edge or out of the frame. This will provide a more even lighting and reduce whiteouts. EDIT: 1/4" day/night is probably fake day/night, you should consider upgrade more seriously. Make sure you get a true day / night or bkack and white cam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
atropine 0 Posted April 15, 2008 That's a good idea about bouncing the light, Neighbours house is in the perfect position for that, unfortunately they don't have a glossy white or cream house, but yellow. I"ll check how that goes though. Yeah I'm looking about for a new camera. Would rather just add B&W camera and run them at the same time with the B&W just set to record at night. I figure you then get the sensitivity and detail with the B&W, but the colour might be useful still if you needed to get the colour of a car, which may illuminate itself due to reflected light from the head lights. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CollinR 0 Posted April 15, 2008 Sure if you got the ports go for it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zmxtech 0 Posted April 16, 2008 for sure -I had the same problem of moths 1 or 2 setting off the motion detection. Move the cam or put the IR up high looking down etc... you will get a better spread anyway. my Sony HAD ex-view 1/2 is great with IR. and you can use less. z Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
