Game camera occasional "washed out" photos.

[sixdogs]

Why do I sometimes get washed out photos on my game cam?

 

[gsganzer]

Why do I sometimes get washed out photos on my game cam?

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Time of day with the sun? I try to point all of mine northerly.

 

[old and tired]

Stinking Aliens at it again!!!

 

[ponytug]

Time of day with the sun? I try to point all of mine northerly.

Great idea, but the image reports 1:51am.

@sixdogs Wild photo! No clue. Lots of game cams do not tolerate highly reflective subjects. LPRs are designed to do exactly that.

All the best,

Peter

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

I have had some cameras do that. I think its a bug in their software.

I have reduced it by toning down the IR flash to mid or low. Pointing the camera slightly down, or up. I had one camera that had a shield that slid down over the top of the lens slightly to help with it. Not all camera's have the ability to tweak it and relieve that IR glow.

 

[sixdogs]

I have the camera 7 ft up in. tree and pointed sharply towards the ground. Here are two fat raccoons in the upper left.

 

[sixdogs]

Time of day with the sun? I try to point all of mine northerly.

This photo was in the dark and that's the only time I get the washout. It's a Browning game cam

 

[whitenorth]

Probably just an insect running across or close to the lens. Insects flying always look like white blobs.

 

[MossRoad]

I've seen that somewhere before...

But seriously, I get that on mine sometimes when an animal or insect or tree branch is really close to the lens. Something happens to reflect the IR light back into the lens. Can also be malfunction. Unless it happens often, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[MossRoad]

I have the camera 7 ft up in. tree and pointed sharply towards the ground. Here are two fat raccoons in the upper left.

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See how the reflection in their eyes is a line instead of round eyeballs? I think that would indicate a long shutter speed. Our game cam gets round eyes at night.

So a long shutter speed would be open for so long that the movement of the reflection in the eyes is dragged across the film, or in this case, the sensor.

Long shutter speeds would also give you that burst effect if something were really close to the lens, giving it a lot of time to overexpose the image with the reflection of something.

See if you can adjust shutter speed if possible, or reset camera to factory settings if possible.