# Right camera module for camera traps

**URL:** <https://forums.openmv.io/t/right-camera-module-for-camera-traps/902>\
**Category:** OpenMV Boards\
**Created:** [September 20, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/right-camera-module-for-camera-traps/902 "2018-09-20T04:26:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@arky](https://forums.openmv.io/u/arky)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/right-camera-module-for-camera-traps/902/1 "2018-09-20T04:26:14Z")

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What is the right camera module to choose to build a camera traps[1]. We need to the video to work in board daylight, shade and night[2] with external IR light source. Thanks!  
  
  
  
[1] [Camera trap - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_trap)  
[2] [IR Lens | OpenMV](https://openmv.io/products/ir-lens)

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**Author:** ![kwagyeman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.openmv.io/kwagyeman/32/4_2.png) [@kwagyeman](https://forums.openmv.io/u/kwagyeman)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/right-camera-module-for-camera-traps/902/2 "2018-09-20T05:18:02Z")

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Mmm, so, this is where the FLIR sensor on our new OpenMV Cam H7 reach makes the difference. With it you’ll be able to see in day and night regardless of what’s going on regarding sunlight. It will see temperature so you can easily trigger using that versus trying to make sense of a washed out color camera.

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**Author:** ![arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@arky](https://forums.openmv.io/u/arky)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/right-camera-module-for-camera-traps/902/3 "2018-09-21T17:04:55Z")

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> Mmm, so, this is where the FLIR sensor on our new OpenMV Cam H7 reach makes the difference. With it you’ll be able to see in day and night regardless of what’s going on regarding sunlight. It will see temperature so you can easily trigger using that versus trying to make sense of a washed out color camera.

I never used any FLIR sensor/camera before, does this solve problem of capturing the image/video using the camera. Does it work similar to arducam? This means we could use single camera for all the lighting conditions.

> **[ArduCAM NOIR Raspberry Pi camera with Motorized IR Cut Filter - Arducam](https://www.arducam.com/arducam-noir-raspberry-pi-camera-motorized-ir-cut-filter/)**
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> Background Raspberry pi camera has both color version pi camera board and NoIR version pi camera board. So let’s take a look at the difference between these two types of cameras. The color version pi camera has 650nm IR cut filter on top of the...

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**Author:** ![kwagyeman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.openmv.io/kwagyeman/32/4_2.png) [@kwagyeman](https://forums.openmv.io/u/kwagyeman)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.openmv.io/t/right-camera-module-for-camera-traps/902/4 "2018-09-22T19:34:52Z")

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FLIR is thermal vision: [FLIR Lepton 1/2/3 on the OpenMV Cam H7 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/166JRLueCwc)