The past three years when the new cameras start to hit the market we start to see the word “whiteout” pop up on the forums as being a big negative regarding camera function. If the manufactures could control the exact spot and conditions as to where their product would be installed and fix the light amount coming to the camera then all things would work as desired. In the real world of trail camera use the areas are normally under the forest canopy and above that is a variable amount of cloud cover that just seems to move across the landscape. With all that in thought it makes sense that the tiny hole in the front of the camera that passes the light conditions into the camera would have a series of on and off conditions as far as good sunlight. This could be caused by the clouds, the foliage in the tree canopy, the suns movement across the sky and the wind. This puts a broad spectrum of conditions out for a manufacture to consider when designing their products. Testing has been done by us on cameras costing from less than a hundred dollars to well over one thousand dollars. All of which, has at one time or another experienced that dreaded whiteout problem. This condition seems to be more pronounced during the dawn to daylight time and at dusk. Choosing an area that is more open would help to lessen the problem but you would probably miss all of those old sneaky big bucks that tend to run in the thick stuff. In most cases these cameras work extremely well with the exception of those two periods of time. To say “we are just going to have to live with it” is probably pretty true until a newer method of light sensing is developed. Some folks have gone to the extreme of using fiber optics to bring in more light and drilling out the sensor hole and painting it silver to reflect more light into the hole. The folks that make outdoor motion sensing lighting for a while had a small square stick on mirror they used because in some mounting conditions the lamp body was directly above the sensor and this cause the lights to stay on way past day light. I searched for a source of these small plastic mirrors but was not able to locate them anymore. All the conversations with the engineers at these companies did not given us a satisfactory answer. We now have cameras that have decent trigger times, great sensing, good pictures, a degree of security, and strong water tight cases. This is mega jump forward from the early days of trail cameras where battery life was measured in hours and pictures could be counted on one hand. So we now have just one thing to complain about.  Bill