Bullet/Dog Cameras

[P4NLY]

Been toying with the idea for a few months now ready for my trip to the Ring in July ...had bought a pair of wireless CMOS cameras and a receiver...this setup turned out to be quite pants

To record from that setup needed an AV recorder of some kind and so this week Ive bought a solid state recorder that allows an AV device to be plugged in and recorded from. The device allows for 375 minutes of recording to a 2GB SD card

The only thing now is the camera itself...

Been looking at a few and the CCD sensor 420TV Lines (or above) pinhole versions seem to be the ones to go for...they range from around £30-£150 depending on the bits and pieces you need to buy...

Will also need to buy a suitable mic for it too (although it has an internal one I doubt itll be up to the job)

Anyone bought anything like this before? Tips?

 

[edde]

Have a look at thse two links for ideas. (also do a serch a lot of users on there use cameras).
I bought a cheap one form Maplings £60 or so as I'm cheap but the qulaity isn't that good.
Be careful at the ring they don't like cameras and will ban you for a year if they find you with one.

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=36676

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=39157&page=3

 

[P4NLY]

Yea I know about the Ring and their Camera laws lol...will be concealed away ...thanks for the links

The guy in the last post of the 2nd link mentions 420TV lines and CCD...Ive bought one now...waiting for delivery so will post up the vids I get from it

 

[Guy]

speak to fishy dave on here

got a bullet cam (480 lines) with wide angle lens on it, microphone, suction mount with extra knuckle join for 200 ish..

then i bought a canon mv960 mini DV camcorder to capture it with (via AV in socket)

works ace..

comes to around 500 all in..

 

[Fishy Dave]

Cheers Guy,

Yes, take a look at www.fastfilms.co.uk, we have the best value kit around IMO and i'd be happy to help.

 

[Nik]

I've got a 520 line bullet cam setup linked to a sony miniDv camcorder and operated by a lanc remote switch. Works really well.

Am shortly about to start selling bullet cam kits myself .

 

[Guy]

http://media.putfile.com/Guy---Harry

using 480 from fast films. (obviously quality is reduced down for internet usage)

 

[P4NLY]

any chance you could host the original file so I can see the quality?