friday 19 january Cam discussion

Those are defective pixel positions in the camera's CCD array. They stay in the same spot relative to the margins, as the camera is panned.

(ed. Ingwe's post wasn't there when I started typing this )

I think they have named them "pixel stars". They are not real stars (although they do look like they are). Maybe another member or a mod will explain what they are in detail.

:oops: Not in detail from me But! have a look at this thread

http://www.africam.com/boma/viewtopic.php?t=1874&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=285 and you can read about them there I am technically challenged but at least I remembered there was a discussion

I think they have named them "pixel stars". They are not real stars (although they do look like they are). Maybe another member or a mod will explain what they are in detail.

LOL I always thought they were just specks of dirt on my screen

I think they have named them "pixel stars". They are not real stars (although they do look like they are). Maybe another member or a mod will explain what they are in detail.

cam question......what are the 2 tiny dots on either side of the large tree?

hi johng,
have you checked out the daily sightings topic?
..each day people post the African Cam time when seen, and name of animal, etc. that was seen.
and pics of these sightings can be seen as cammers post them in the Cam Pics daily topics.
Happy Camming

thanks for the info

This is very very weird.

Jan, could it be that you clicked on one of the videos from yesterday?

I have done that myself
I guess anything's possible, but if I did that, I don't know how I did it because I didn't know I could do it. Ack!!

I had the cam open in WMP, and had posted a couple of screens of the geese. I left the cam open for a few minutes while I did a couple of things on the computer, went back and looked at it again, and saw a cheetah walking around. I hadn't closed WMP or even clicked on it -- brought it back to the front by clicking on it in my taskbar.

What might I have done to activate a video from a time when the cam wasn't on my screen? Or is that even possible? If I know how to do it, hopefully I can make sure it doesn't happen again...if that's what happened this time...

enyone seen enything?