Re: [SLUG] video cameras

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

Danny Yee wrote:
>
> 
> Not IR - low-light and night-time.  (But using IR might be an option,
> if it doesn't change the behaviour of the animals.)

Weeellll, this rules out the colour sugar cubes and I'm not sure if
the B&W will be any good either unless there is a bit of ambient light
around.

Distance to scene?

> 
> > If you want to do the separate camera and computer, you need 486+ with
> > PCI slot. I, Everything Linux and Len Chan can sell you capture cards.
> > I've put sugar cubes 10M away from capture card with no problems (Suse
> > stand at Linux Expo 2000 - well Len did, but I made the cables up
> > {:-).  CPU depends on how many frames per second.
> 
> That might be the way to go, I'll check out all the pointers for places
> to buy cameras.

If you tell me distance to scene and lighting levels, I might be able
to duplicate it and you can look at a B&W sugar cam (
http://www.woa.com.au/webcam/tuxcam.html) and see how well it does
with nil ir, and various Jaycar floods (really only good for 1-2m
depth). It is an easy matter to put some cable out through the window
one evening. 

I'm just concerned the sugar cubes might not do what you want. 


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