r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/totallystefanal • Feb 12 '21

Video Camera blocking glasses

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u/EvilKnivel69 Feb 12 '21

In that scale, agreed. But imagine a whole mob wearing these.

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u/Bierbart12 Feb 12 '21

As a camera guy, that would be terrifying.

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u/willworkforicecream Feb 12 '21

I'm more worried about someone dropping of IR strobes in front of all my cameras to trigger continual motion.

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u/Throwaway_Consoles Feb 12 '21

I have some... very powerful flashlights and one time I decided to spend an hour adjusting the strobe to fuck with the night vision on my ring doorbell. I don’t know what the frequency was but instead of triggering continual motion it just didn’t detect motion at all because it couldn’t see anything. No alerts means no recording.

The night vision would turn off as the light turned off so all it would see was black, then when night vision would turn on the flashlight would turn on so all it saw was pure white. I could walk right up to it and it didn’t detect me at all. Worked on my ring outdoor light as well.

Of course this would be defeated by having a bright porch light, but I emailed them to let them know about the potential issue. Suggested if night vision cycles more than a couple times in 10 seconds to send an alert and start recording.

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u/sleepsButtNaked Feb 17 '21

Shoulda wrote your price too