Pictures are too dark takes pictures at night but too dark to see what it is picking up

SOURCE: EVEN WITH A FLASH THE PICTURES ARE DARK

I had the exact same problem and decided that rather than throw it away which would be second.... I took the back off to see if there was anything i could do.
What happened was my cats knocked it over one day and you will see inside there is a battery that is right below the circuits for the two buttoms that control flash and picture. I gave it a little push tighter up to the circuits (they weren't making proper contact) and then after a successful trial shot, put it back together and it is working perfectly. It's amazing to think that a forced movement inside of this device will completely set it off. And I can't even imagine how much money I saved. Knowing full well we don't often get 100% honesty when taking a device in to be fixed. :)

SOURCE: stealth cam digital game camera not taking night pictures

I have a broke wire on mine can you send me pictures of the inside of yours? my wire is a black wire from the keypad at the bottom of the cam.I can send you pictures of my cam if it will help you

SOURCE: dark pictures

check out for the ISO settings !!! it wil help u out in taking bright pictures

SOURCE: Nikon D40 is taking Dark Pictures. Flash is

kindly see the aparture and speed of xpouser and the iso also if the iso is 100 change the iso to 400 or 800 or u can select he programme option for the best xpousers

SOURCE: moultrie D50 game trail camera won't take pictures in dark

Does the flash work? Could be flash circuit or day/night sensor.If you have another D40/D50 camera that flash works but has other problems,swap out the sensors.If not the sensor but the flash circuit then most likely one of the large charge capacitors which has to be soldered in.I use a digital multimeter with I/O capacitor test function..these caps should be about 250mfd.