tdellenburg

I have a problem I would like some help with if any of you have ever encountered it. I installed a CCTV system for a client who was having cattle stolen. This past Sunday night / Monday morning, he had a calf get stolen and we were able to retrieve video from his DVR. However, the image we got was a big white blob moving around his barn. The video was captured in a dark barn at 1:30am, with IR illumination from a IC Realtime ICR200 camera. I have tried to recreate this "white blob" using several different flashlights pointed at the camera, but when I do I white out the whole barn and glare the camera completely out. During the incidence in question, the entire barn was still visible, but nothing on the thief was visible, not even his feet. Any help would be appreciated.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to prevent a simple flashlight from beating my cameras going forward? I understand that there is a cobweb there, the that big white blob IS a person with a light source. I have duplicated it and proven that. I'll post an image later of myself on the same camera. There must be a way to keep a $5.00 flashlight from overpowering a surveillance camera system. Ideas?

I love this. I've been a contractor for 11 years, and people think theirs is the only knowledge or labor that has value!

No Tom, this was actually a person. In the video I watched him walk across this barn, check the stalls, and return along the same route and exit. In the video you can see the "blob" change dimensions as, presumably, his hands move around while he navigates. I am trying now to figure out 1. what is his light source, and 2. how can I see "through it" to get a picture of him. But, you are definitely on course with cobwebs. It is a barn and we have had trouble with them already, but they had recently been cleaned off before this.

Sorry, new here. I did not realize that I couldn't post bmp images. I converted it to jpg so hopefully this will show up.

Ah, my bad. The software was putting the image in a different folder. Here is the image from the video. The big orb underneath the date stamp is actually a person moving through the frame!

I'm trying to get the sapshot to work on the viewing software but am having trouble with it. That goes along with what I told the customer; "the calf wasn't stolen, it was abducted."