Re: Compact cheap "surveilance" camera

[IRO <irotemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <e7oh4r$bie$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Matty F <matty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Total overkill!! Everyone is thinking in terms of connecting computers
and/or VCRs when we want to identify intruders, not make a blockbuster.
That means lots of low-cost but effective concealed cameras. Something
with the motion sensing of a web cam, guts of a cheap  digicam stripped
of unnecessary gear like LCDs, flashes, focusing lenses, etc but
equipped to take photos unsupervised for months at a time.

The technology is so close but not quite here.

Actually the tip earlier in this thread is getting very close. Some
interesting stuff coming up on eBay when I searched for
"Trail Camera".
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~IRO
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