I'm very happy with my purchase. The camera works great and takes good pics. I'm happy enough to leave it alone, but I'm going to put it close to a bedding area that holds a good number of mature bucks and if I could convert it, I would.

Can I use one of those black flash things to convert it to black flash? What one would I need? How does it work? Thanks!!

I'd recommend the Uway XtendIR-B or B2.
The XtendIR-B2 comes with a cable that links directly to cams such as the NX80 with no need to attach a sensor cable. Not sure, without checking, if you can hook your UM562 to it without using the sensor cable but I'd still recommend this product and I'm sure many others would too.
Here's a link to the review of the original XtendIR-B;
http://www.chasingame.com/index.php?id=132

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Cut a piece of material exact size of flash Ir on the UM562 buy 1 Uway BlackXtender $80.00 it will come with a wire that has a sensor cut small corner or whatever is easier for you to match the sensor head exact to the front of the Ir, mount it to the front of the camera and you now have a blackflash camera.you have to just take your time to make sure all cuts are perfect and find what material will work best i have done it on my x cam but only used some cheap black cardboard which will decay over time works for now i'm sure guys on here have some way better ideas for material i found it takes 4-5 tries on the material before you get it perfect and no light shows at all but all and all its a pretty easy job to do

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Welcome to the CG Forum.

As the other guys said, cover the cam's flash array with something, but make sure you don't block the light sensor that tells the cam it should use the flash. The sensor could be somewhere in among all those LEDs, although looking at a pic of the cam in the CG review, I think it's outside the flash array. Maybe some thin brass or styrene sheet would be opaque enough, and easy to cut/drill. You could paint it later so it wouldn't stand out against the cam's color.
Also leave a way for some light to get to the sensor on the flash extender, assuming you want to use the UWay XtendIR-B. There is also the Spypoint Wireless Booster, IRB-W-B, which has a larger flash sensor.

Since it's a UWay cam, one would think they'd equip it with a jack for the XtendIR-B2, but I haven't found any mention of that yet.

Enjoy your new cam.

So basically, the blackflash has a sensor that needs to see the camera IR when it is taking a picture. The rest of the camera IR needs to be blocked off (to make the set up blackflash), and the blackflash part (LED, I think?) needs to be pointing in the direction the camera is set.

This gives me plenty of ideas. Maybe I'll try to integrate everything in to a security box.

I'll also check tonight for the port to just plug it in, but I don't recall seeing anything that stood out to me.

Some of the info out there on these things is so vague, I was having difficulty envisioning it.

Thanks for all the help guys!!

Yep. Before UWay came out with the XtendIR, there wasn't much out there to add extra illumination to a commercial IR cam. Leaf River had/has the IR-X, but that only plugs into LR cams. The IR sensor lets the newer units work with almost any IR cam.
The next logical step was the XtendIR-B, which could make pretty much any "red blob" cam into a "black flash" cam.
Spypoint went one better with their wireless setup, which allows more flexibility with the positioning of the booster in relation to the camera. (Just don't aim the booster/extender at the cam.)
As mentioned above, the "-2" versions of the XtendIR and XtendIR-B can just plug into certain UWay cams, but only certain ones.

I'd go with two individual cases, one for the cam and one for the extender. That'll be easier to lug around and to put up on a tree, and keeping them separate will let you mount the flash extender above and/or to the side of the cam. With the wireless booster, you could even have two boosters, one on each side of the cam, and triggered by the same sensor. Separate cases will probably make everything easier to hide, too. You can get security cases for the cam and the XtendIR here: <http://www.custom1enterprises.com/custom1enterprises_003.htm> They have the XtendIR-B, too, plus power cables, straps, locks, and adjustable mounts for the cases.

Edit: Just for grins, I tried one of my Spypoint boosters in one of the Custom1 cases I bought for my XtendIRs. There is a rod across the inside of the case that keeps the bottom of the XtendIR and its associated cables/plugs up off the bottom of the case. I slid the IRB-W up to the top of the case so as not to block off too much of the bottom of its flash array.
Getting an external power cable plugged into the booster could be kind of a challenge, but I think this adaptation would work. I'd want to put some kind of short strap through the loops on the back of the IRB-W, and then just leave that in the bottom of the case, to make it easier to slide the booster out for maintenance.


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I just use black electrical tape to cover my IR's.I cut the tape to cover the ones I want covered.Which is usually 2 or 3 pieces and then make another set and tape to the back of the camera for spares.

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