Moultrie IR filter

[catman529]

My moultrie is a little over a year old, but its had the problem at least a year... Sometimes night pics are dark, like the flash didn't go off. I figured out the infrared filter that goes in front of the camera lens was not switching off the lens for some of the night pics, so the IR flash was filtered out, making black pics.

With this recent cold weather in January, the filter got stuck half way over the lens, resulting in partially blacked out pics from the black rim of the filter blocking the lens. The first time, I opened it up and fixed it. Then it happened again, so I completely remove the filter. Of course, that means day pics now have a pink color to them, but I'd rather that than keep getting messed up pics and black night pics. Now my camera takes all normal night pics and I can get used to the pink daytime color. Might try image editing software to bring a more natural color to some of the pics.

 

[SALTMAN]

I had one of firemanjim homebrews. It took all pink . He told me how to do it so he can probably help you. I didnt want to go through that so I sold it . Just pulled today my card from a new moultrie black and its working great . finally got some blurred ones at the end , but the entire camera was iced so that was to be expected .

 

[catman529]

This one isn't black flash, it's regular IR and has had the problem almost as long as I've had it. The actuator or whatever flips the IR filter over the lens doesn't work properly every time. Sometimes it's fine but sometimes the filter doesn't flip away from the lens at night so it filters out the IR flash, making black night pics. And with the recent cold weather it got stuck half way across the lens twice and wouldn't move, so that's why I removed the whole filter. I don't mind pink pics if I am getting 100% of my night pics, since you never know what buck may show up at night.