Re: Compact cheap "surveilance" camera

[Bruce Knox <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:42:57 +1200, Matty F <matty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>IRO wrote:
>
>> I've been looking for one of these for years, particularly with motion
>> sensing to eliminate the hassles of  taking the photos and a choice of
>> card size to allow for busy sites needed to store a lot of images. Aim a
>> little higher with the specs, a 2 or 3MP image will avoid the nonsense
>> of the images shown in the newspapers or on TV taken from security video
>> cameras where you would be hard-pressed to tell the difference between
>> Arnie and R2D2.
>
>There must be lots of old Handycams that chew up tapes but the
>camera still works. I have one and could connect it to a computer
>that could record when there is motion. If I knew of suitable
>software, which I don't.
http://www.baggins.co.nz/comp/programs.php

camsave.exe. Designed for a web cam but will just record to hard drive
if that is all you need.

Bruce.
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