I wasn’t very scientific in my approach. I took a thin black plastic carrier bag and cut out a rectangle that covered the LEDs. I was later informed (where are your family when you’re actually doing these things!) that it might have been better just covering the middle first.
So it’s the topmost rectangle that I covered, for those like me that rarely read the manual before diving in.
Anyway, it gave a more or less even coverage of light across the whole area, and I could see more clearly, but not quite as sharply. There was no central white-out.
However I also changed where I placed the camera, at the same time, so that’s why it wasn’t very scientific. I’ll put it out tonight in the original position to see what happens and will report back.
I experimented with a tripod but the ground is very uneven, on a steep slope, and because I let the garden grow wild for most of the year (I strim around the feeding stations) it’s hard to find a good vantage point. Also the demon cats tend to brush up against anything they’ve sprayed (and they love spraying the camera) so I have a strange shaped brick that raises it a bit off the ground and gives it some stability.
Before I was given the Victure as an unexpected gift I was looking at the Apeman, so your thoughts on it are very useful. I’d like to have a camera trained on my new pond, so I’m either looking at buying a second camera or investigating a wall-mounted WiFi mains-powered camera that might cover a wider range. Or just rotating the current camera between the two sites.
I found a badger site yesterday, while on a walk, and was thinking of leaving the camera there overnight.
