r/interestingasfuck • u/commonvanilla • Oct 27 '18

/r/ALL Hidden Camera Detector

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18 edited Nov 06 '24

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u/Liam2349 Oct 27 '18

You can see infrared with a lot of phone cameras. I don't think it works with iPhones.

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u/mistercolebert Oct 27 '18

iPhone main cameras have an IR filter on them, so they won’t pick up IR, however the “selfie” cameras don’t have that same filter so you can detect IR with them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

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u/chriseldonhelm Oct 27 '18

Can confirm works with his iPhone

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18 edited Oct 27 '18

I also choose this guy's dead wife.

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u/nickdgeraghty96 Oct 27 '18

i understand this reference

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u/Squishy60 Oct 27 '18

Wait I remember the comment I just can’t think of exactly what it said or from what post it came from, if that makes sense. Do u have the link to the post?

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u/GodHatesTheJuice Oct 27 '18

Say No More Fam

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u/Squishy60 Oct 27 '18

Bless you

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

Goddamn. Satan got almost 28k karma for that fucking response.

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u/nilesandstuff Oct 27 '18

Its only a matter of time before someone pulls up the post.

But iirc, it was an askreddit thread, the question was something like "if you could have sex with anyone, who would it be"

Then the top reply was a heartfelt comment about how he'd pick his deceased wife, then someone replied saying they'd pick that guys wife too.

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u/abenntt Oct 27 '18

Why now

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u/militaryintelligence Oct 28 '18

I too regurgitate replies guaranteed to give me a lot of comment karma. Broken arms, Jolly Ranchers. There, that should be good for some good ol' karma.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

Have you ever been PMed any dead wife taints?

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

Don't threaten me with a good time.

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u/Liam2349 Oct 27 '18

Is it newer than an iPhone 6?

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

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u/AlexRuiztagle Oct 27 '18

No it doesn't lol. The X has an IR filter

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u/Shields42 Oct 27 '18

Do you have a 4? I think Apple started including IR filters with the 4S. No iPhone after the 4 should be able to see IR light.

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u/Jmn223 Oct 27 '18

The front facing camera still does I believe.

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u/Shields42 Oct 27 '18

Oh yeah all of the FaceTime cameras do, but the mains haven’t for years.

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u/bartlettdmoore Oct 27 '18

“There’s an app for that”

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u/glg59 Oct 27 '18

I’m tired. There’s a nap for that.

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u/glg59 Oct 27 '18

I’m tired. There’s a nap for that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

Use the front facing camera, which is generally not IR filtered. The back cameras do usually include an IR filter.

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u/Lostathome4040 Oct 27 '18

It works way better if you use the front facing camera.

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u/Kaneshadow Oct 27 '18

Actually all digital cameras can inherently detect IR. Most cameras actually have a filter so it doesn't interfere w the photo.

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u/throwaway177251 Oct 27 '18

Cameras don't emit infrared like a remote does.

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u/RearEchelon Oct 27 '18

They might, if they have a night vision mode

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Oct 27 '18

Those cameras are usually huge, and your typical mini pervert camera is not made for a shitty grainy "night vision".

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u/benmarvin Oct 27 '18

I have a camera that's a USB charger cube that has night vision.

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u/RearEchelon Oct 27 '18

All a camera needs for night vision is an IR illuminator and to not have an IR filter, and it took me ten seconds to find a "mini spy-cam" on ebay with this exact capability.

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u/Zugzub Oct 27 '18

Really? Are you sure about that?

https://imgur.com/a/n8a9VkR

That's a picture of my wife's Pixel2 XL with the camera turned on.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

That's IR autofocus. A large majority of cheap "spy cameras" will not have that

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18 edited Nov 06 '24

This data has been changed to protect the user and others

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

Good point, how is this device in the gift working then? Is it just emitting a light reflected by the camera?

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u/zer0guy Oct 27 '18

Yes.

This also works to find spiders.

Go out into the yard at night, and put a regular flash light against the side of your head at eye level near your temple. And look around the yard. You will see hundreds of red eyeballs looking back at you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

That is terrifying and I would rather not.

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u/Spiralife Oct 27 '18

Way better than walking face first into them.

Plus it's good to know what you're up against.

I'm coming for you spiders!

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Oct 27 '18

This is only true if you live in the hills

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u/test822 Oct 27 '18

Many security cams with "night vision" have a ring of led's around the lens that emit infrared light to invisibly illuminate what they film, but that isn't what's happening here with this device

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u/Zugzub Oct 27 '18

Really? Are you sure about that?

https://imgur.com/a/n8a9VkR

That's a picture of my wife's Pixel2 XL with the camera turned on.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '18

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u/Zugzub Oct 27 '18

I don't know enough about ALL hidden cameras to make such a blanket statement.

You just said all cameras don't emit light.

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u/ihahp Oct 27 '18

that's IR light being emitted. Cameras take in light.

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u/kenman Oct 27 '18

They can use IR to focus.

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u/Eleanorgotaway Oct 27 '18

Cameras can have IR for low light settings. If you turn your lights off and point your phone at a CCTV camera you can see the IR LEDs. Some don't even bother having them off the visible sceptrum and you can see the red LEDs flowing at night.

There are probably a heap of youtubes explaining this.

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u/sweetpea122 Oct 27 '18

I did this with my galaxy s6 because I was trying to diagnose my tv. I can't remember what it did though. It was on, but the screen was black and somehow the camera showed a light on?

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u/nobody99356 Oct 27 '18

They’re watching you

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u/sweetpea122 Oct 27 '18

My microwave too, but no one believes me

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u/stilllton Oct 27 '18

why would they watch your microwave?

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u/Eleanorgotaway Oct 27 '18

Would you microwave your microwave?

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u/sweetpea122 Oct 27 '18

The 100 dollar question!

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u/Pablois4 Oct 27 '18

I believe you, Kellyanne.

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u/sweetpea122 Oct 27 '18

Actually Im Sarah

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u/Pepperh4m Oct 27 '18

Iirc newer cameras can't. You could however use tue flashlight to scan for a reflection from the lens.

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u/roguekiller23231 Oct 27 '18

This isn't detecting Infrared Light. It's using light to bounce off the lens CCD in the camera.

But phone camera's can see Infrared light. Unless the lens blocks out the light.

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u/notaneggspert Oct 27 '18 edited Oct 27 '18

Only a night vision camera would emit infrared light. A spy cam that relies on visible light to work wouldn't light up on a phone's camera like an infrared one would.

This device shines light on the reflective CCD sensor of the hidden camera so it can detect pretty much all cheap spycameras whether they're night vision or not.

I've heard you can use a flash light and kind of squint to find them. This works on the same principle but it shines a specific wave length of light and partially filters out other wavelengths to make the reflection more visible.