Decent web cam for poking in holes

[John Rumm]

Yup, something with an overall cost in the ballpark of the postage on that would be good! ;-)

[Roger Mills]

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:

have one inside a nesting box - but there's no reason why it wouldn't do what you want. When there's decent lighting, you get a colour picture. When it's dark, the IR LEDs switch on and you get a B&W picture. It's powered from a wallwart, through an additional wire in the signal cable. The camera is (manually) focusable from a few inches to infinity.

[George]

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

[Roger Mills]

wires or endless battery changes).

[George]

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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. ;-)

[Roger Mills]

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!

[John Rumm]

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.

[George]

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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.

[dennis]

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

[Steve Firth]

[Roger Mills]

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.

[Mike Tomlinson]

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