Decent web cam for poking in holes

Does it have to be a *web* cam (implying connection to a computer) or would something be ok which you connect to a TV?

If TV is ok, you might consider one of these:

You could have had a wireless one for that. :-)

wires or endless battery changes).

True but as one of my cameras is upstairs pointing out of the backroom window into the yard and the PC is downstairs in the front room, that would be a helluva lot of cable to the PC dont you think. ;-)

Maybe - except that these cameras don't connect to a PC, they connect to a TV. And I was really answering in the context of using it in a nesting box - where you've really got to run power to the box in some form or another, so might as well use a wired camera.

Mine actually feeds a portable TV very close to where the cable comes through the wall of a bedroom, and I can also use it with wireless video senders to display the picture on the main TV downstairs.

But this is all getting a bit OT with respect to the original question!

Web cam would be preferable since it is easier to lug a laptop to a point of use rather than a TV and a power supply...

Having said that I have a mini DV camcorder that will allow analogue input, so could possibly use that as a monitor.

Ta for that, will add it to the list of possibles.

Any camera can be used on a PC using either a TV/Capture card or DSR card. These cameras work on the TV as well.

They are low powered so a B&Q wind turbine should do the job.

Yes I know, but a cam with a PAL/composite video output isn't *primarily* intended for computer use in the way that a USB-based web cam is.

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