[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Infrared game camera question

Posted: 12/12/2008 4:43:01 PM EDT

Do game cameras emit infrared or do they just receive the infrared put out by warm objects in order to detect motion?

Posted: 12/12/2008 4:48:12 PM EDT

[#1]

More importantly, do not, I repeat, DO NOT set one up in your wife's bathroom.

Posted: 12/12/2008 5:27:25 PM EDT

[#2]

Digital cameras are highly sensitive to the IR spectrum
Most animals don't seem to see in the IR range

To us, a 900 nm LED floodlight doesn't even seem to glow red like the 800 nm ones

yet the cameras sees a well lit environment

Posted: 12/12/2008 5:35:46 PM EDT

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Do game cameras emit infrared or do they just receive the infrared put out by warm objects in order to detect motion?

they have an array of LED's that momentarily emit IR like a flash. The camera is sensitive to the IR reflected off the objects. The system is triggered by a pyroelectric IR sensor.

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