Can you blind CCTV cameras with a flashlight? (infrared and white light tested)
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- What happens if you take a $40 flashlight and shine it toward a brand new security camera? Will the camera be able to see, or will it become completely useless?
We put our security cameras to the test against a white flashlight and an IR light. We tested both WDR off and on, as well as from 10ft and 30ft away. The results may surprise you!
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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Flashlight vs Security Camera
1:16 - Turning on WDR Mode
2:35 - Infrared vs Security Camera
3:51 - Astrolux vs Security Camera
4:58 - Conclusion
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Interesting. So just a torch can blind a camera during day and night. Whereas an infrared will only blind at night.
Ive asked my neighbour to add a blind spot to her doorbell camera so it doesn't trigger when im on my property, but this falls on deaf ears as the Eufy cam still lights up blue when i am nowhere near her door. Looks like i just need a focused lightbeam triggered by a fob for when im walking on and off my property. Thanks
Outstanding test. Honestly never gave thought to some sh!+#3@d using LEDs to blind night vision, which would pretty much invalidate the purpose of CCTVs providing night images (for our projects). Day vision for canine lawn "vandalism" (destructive urination, defacation or...?) fine, however, just not night vision.
Only actual way of ensuring night vision and night vision accuracy is to install motion-activated security lights.
What about garden spot light
It’s even more rude that the neighbors sensors goes off when I pull into my driveway or come out my back door
Depending on the system they should be able to change their intrusion zones so that it doesn't trigger for you or people your property. I would definitely ask them about that.
My neighbour has two cameras 3 meters apart facing my property left and right
The cameras are six meters from the end of my home so now am thinking of fitting a flood light straight opposite
Would this stop them seeing
The cameras are turned left and right
So would it still work indirectly
Yes, it would work indirectly. As you can see in the video, the camera was blinded wherever the light was.
So, if you shine a light from the side, the view should have a blind spot from where the light is coming from. You won't blind the whole camera, just the part where the floodlights are located.
How would this work with a recent flagship smartphone working as a surveillance camera? How would it be possible to blind in broad daylight with an IR flashlight?
You cannot blind a smartphone with an IR flashlight because the phone's camera does not pickup the IR light properly. It would not work - at best you'd see a small red glow from the flashlight but not a full blind.
@@xlrsecurity Is there any hypothetical way you could get a similar effect with iphone cameras without IR? Like if someone was standing 3 meters away from you and you were able to block out their iphone camera with some sort of invisible light of sorts?
@@JoinTheSuperLegion It might be possible if you had an extremely powerful infrared light, but nothing off the shelf.
I tested it with an IR flashlight - my phone just picks up a slightly purple light from 50cm away. It's not blinding, and from 3m the effect would be even less.
Can you try this experiment with equal or more light fixed at you or around you. I believe camera apertures on security cameras are fixed, so how much light is absorbed is static. So if you have flood lights focused on a persons face, perhaps the persons blinding light wont white-flush the face,
The problem is the cameras sensor is being overwhelmed with light. Adding more light to the person shinning the torch is only going to bounce more light back at the sensor.
Think of driving at night on a dark road, if a car coming at you has its high beams on and you put your high beams on, you're still being dazzled, they're just being dazzled too.
Good bro
Thank you bud
@@xlrsecurity i want to know more if you have any content pls
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So they're only there to keep honest people honest 🤣
No matter what type of security measures you have in place (locks, cameras, alarm systems) a determined enough individual or group of individuals will find a way to bypass it.
It helps to layer security on top of each other so you if one layer is broken through, you have more layers of protection. And hopefully enough time for police or security to arrive and resolve the situation. Stay safe out there.
Will a strong LEP wreck the camera
No, I don't believe a strong LED will wreck the camera. It will be fine.
@xlrsecurity thanks for replying no I'm talking about a laser exited phospher, lep,
@@raffaelegibellini667 Ohhhh okay. Those LEP flashlights look pretty intense - I doubt they'll wreck a camera but they'll definitely blind it!
All good, but what you said at the end not to blind cameras because this could end you in trouble, is incorrect. There's no law against blinding cameras. You'll end up in trouble if you do something illegal while blinding the camera, but if you just blind the camera .