I checked the case that the camera is in this evening after I mowed. I did find a tiny spider on there and it was on the clear plastic lens the camera looks through on the housing case so I cleaned it off.
You must renegotiate your contract with the spider's agent. Apparently they misread the 'conditional use' clause requiring them to remain 15mm away from the lens. They may now be subject to a fine.
I'll check it in the morning and if it isn't back to the way it was on the 20th I'll exchange it.
Oh, I'd stick with this awhile. I had / have a similar problem with one of my triplets once in awhile. Possibly because I'm driving 3 C920s on a single Logitech program. Unplug the cam, from USB power... wait a bit... reconnect, reset what ya need to.
Actually, I suspect it may be a more of a USB power issue ...dunno about that for sure... which leads me to:
The more I think about it the more likely it received a bit of a shock when the storms moved through here the other night. It was very sharp and clear up through then if I recall correctly. Anyone else ever lost a camera or have its quality reduced due to lightning or static electricity?
Not a camera, although I thought so at first. Mine connect to a powered usb hub. Each has two 11meter active usb extension cables. On my initial 2 cam setup, (actually with 3 active 16' extensions each) a near miss air to air bolt killed a camera... it knocked out all 3
of the active extensions to one cam... not the camera (which is still running as 'cam 3' today). The electromagnetic field generated by the lightening fried nothing... nothing smoked or melted. Just enough surge induced to destroy the electronics in the cables. Betcha in my (sigh, long gone) electronics career I fixed several thousand devices that I suspect induced surges had whacked, rather than direct power line hits. I sometimes took a 50KV Hi voltage probe, when a garden variety cell with no lightening went overhead, and connected it across antenna leads, then watch the charge build up until it pegged. True, most of that EMF would continuously bleed off, if the antenna were actually connected to something, and never reach that level... but that could still cook today's stuff with no problem, and leave no evidence. Eventually, we'll lose a camera, or an active cable, or a hub, so:
Now I keep spares. And maintain the best karma.
