Why do I see a small, round, rose-colored filter or lens looking piece in the camera eye loose and rolling around?
The red O-ring in front of the lens is an IR-filter, it’s designed to move around depending on your shooting time. When the cam is powered up, the lens will move into position. When power is shut off, it relaxes. For daytime shooting, the filter will be in front of the lens to filter off the IR light which shall interfere your image otherwise (all commercial digital cameras have such a filter fixed in front of the lens); for nighttime shooting, the IR filter will be moved away from the lens to allow IR light pass through to give you the B&W pictures. [Back To Top] • Why can’t I see the picture time stamp on TV? You can not see the time stamp on TV because the TV screen ‘cut’ that part off. The only way you can see the time stamp is on your computer. Indeed the TV screen frame is smaller than the actual picture resolution (it cuts the margins). To allow the TV shows the time stamp, the time stamp has to be lifted up, which is annoying for most of the people using computer. So, we had to
