I'm stumped. I've got a Bushnell Digital Land Camera w/ Night Vision (model 119512B). It works great, and has for every application I've tried, day or night. My shooting friend, Denise, wanted to track some mysterious things going on around her house, so I lent it to her. It's acting very strange, to say the least...
She has a houseplant - a Christmas Cactus - sitting on a table in front of a window in the living room, and it has been having the potting soil seriously disturbed in the night by something. Since she's recently quashed a mouse invasion, I suspected a mouse, but nothing has touched the half dozen mousetraps she has around this plant, not even stealing the bait. So I loaned her the camera last week, programmed it to take three-shot bursts when triggered, and set it on her computer desk next to the table with the plant on it. She did a bit of hand waving to test it, and all worked well - good, sharp images. So she left it set up for a while until last weekend when we downloaded the images.
The camera correctly caught her hand waving from the last time she set it - Friday night - right before she went to bed. The next time it was triggered was about an hour after that, and when we checked the images, all it caught was three completely white images in rapid succession. I looked at these and determined that this over-exposure could be caused by somebody spotlighting her living room window, so I moved the camera to a different vantage point facing away from the window on Sunday night. She again tested the setup by wiggling her fingers in the plant before going to bed last night.
I just talked to her a few minutes ago, and she reports that the images she downloaded tonight clearly show her wiggling her fingers about 11PM last night, but that was followed in the wee hours of the morning by two triggers, each producing three completely white images! That's 6 completely over-exposed images in one evening from a camera that is facing away from the only potential source of light - the window. And yes, the soil has again been disturbed inside the pot without any of the mousetraps being touched.
What the heck is living in that pot? Any suggestions?
She has a houseplant - a Christmas Cactus - sitting on a table in front of a window in the living room, and it has been having the potting soil seriously disturbed in the night by something. Since she's recently quashed a mouse invasion, I suspected a mouse, but nothing has touched the half dozen mousetraps she has around this plant, not even stealing the bait. So I loaned her the camera last week, programmed it to take three-shot bursts when triggered, and set it on her computer desk next to the table with the plant on it. She did a bit of hand waving to test it, and all worked well - good, sharp images. So she left it set up for a while until last weekend when we downloaded the images.
The camera correctly caught her hand waving from the last time she set it - Friday night - right before she went to bed. The next time it was triggered was about an hour after that, and when we checked the images, all it caught was three completely white images in rapid succession. I looked at these and determined that this over-exposure could be caused by somebody spotlighting her living room window, so I moved the camera to a different vantage point facing away from the window on Sunday night. She again tested the setup by wiggling her fingers in the plant before going to bed last night.
I just talked to her a few minutes ago, and she reports that the images she downloaded tonight clearly show her wiggling her fingers about 11PM last night, but that was followed in the wee hours of the morning by two triggers, each producing three completely white images! That's 6 completely over-exposed images in one evening from a camera that is facing away from the only potential source of light - the window. And yes, the soil has again been disturbed inside the pot without any of the mousetraps being touched.
What the heck is living in that pot? Any suggestions?